Rick Flynn
English 101A
Fall 2007

Library Resources for Finding the Media Response to John Walker Lindh

Step 1. Central Search

	Title Author Full Text Keyword Subject ISSN Any
	More Central Search Options

• New Tool! We are still fine-tuning; you can help us with feedback.
• Find Books, Journal Articles, Web sites, all with a single search across multiple databases.
• Nice Features: "One-Stop Shopping," Discover new resources, Full-text filter, subject clustering.
• Discovery Tool: Best to use as a first step, to identify good databases and quickly see scope of results.
• By default, search is looking for words in the title (you can change this).
• More detailed and focused searching will be available from individual database interfaces. See examples below.
• Access selected resources from Library home page ("Quick Search" is limited to our online catalog, HANS, and our periodical databases)
• Access all resources and fine-tune search from main Central Search interface.

Step 2. Search a specific periodical database to find journal, magazine and newspaper articles.

LexisNexis

• Quickly search across a large number of news sources
• Limit by date
• Includes TV & Radio Broadcast transcripts

America's Newspapers

• Compare reaction in different parts of the country?
• Can't limit to type of article - e.g.: separate out editorials from news stories. Use Ebsco for that.
• Narrow down with additional keywords; e.g.: explore topic of blaming the parents, permissiveness, Marin...

Ebscohost

• Includes academic journals, but also magazines and news sources.
• Limit to type of document, e.g.: editorial
• Limit to Full-text
• Expand search to look for keywords in full-text of article (not just title, abstract, etc.)

Ethnic NewsWatch

• Good for perspectives from ethnic, minority and native presses.
• Select Ethnic NewsWatch database to avoid New York Times, other mainstream publications.

SIRS

• Good, selective coverage on Social Issues.
• Try Lindh as subject heading