Editorial and Opinion

In addition to news and analysis, newspapers provide communities with opinion on current issues. The Op-Ed pages carry editorials from the newspaper's editorial board, as well as opinion pieces by professionals and community members. 

One Search:

Library Databases

Limit to editorial at document type.

Limiting to editorials in the databases

In Academic Search Complete

In this database you can search using a keyword, and then add "editorials" in as an actual Subject Term (selecting "SU Subject Terms" from the "Select a Field (optional)" dropdown as shown in the image below:

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In ProQuest

In this database, you can use the "Document Type" limiter as outlined in the text and images below:

• First, type in your search terms
  • Be sure to use quotation marks around specific terms to search the terms as a single concept, rather than two independent words
• Here you can also limit to "Full-text" - so you will only see results for articles that you can immediately download. 
• Based on your topic, you may need to also limit by date to find the most recent articles. Choose an appropriate date range.

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• Then, as shown in the image below, scroll down on the advanced search page to limit by "Document Type" - choosing "Editorials" from the options before searching.

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