Sample topic: How can international students feel more connected to domestic students at GRC?
Sample keywords:
Sample topic: How to bring down the cost of textbooks or offer textbook alternatives.
Let the database help you search for and select current newspaper and magazines articles relevant to your research.
Follow these tips shown in the image of the search results below.
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The sample search below shows how you can narrow your results in the databases. Shown in the search here, is ProQuest. However, you can look for similar tools in other databases.
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The library's research databases will help you find magazine, newspaper, and journal articles that are often not freely available through the internet.
Consider the list of databases linked below to search for articles from a wide range of academic subjects, or consider the databases organized by subject here in the tabs of this box.
To limit your search to news articles, select magazine and newspaper at source type. You can try limiting to features and cover stories for lengthier, more substantive pieces.
When you search the library's general databases, many articles in your results are either from a newspaper or magazine.
Newspaper articles are often short and capture a record and analysis of daily news, issues and events, whether local, national or international.
Tip: The New York Times newspaper (available in ProQuest) has great science, technology and business sections!
Newspapers and magazines both offer opinion pieces, or editorials, on current issues.
Magazines often take up the same types of topics, but may give a bit more depth than newspapers.
Tip: Magazines can also be dedicated to a specialized subject area, like Wired (technology) or Scientific American.
Be sure to check The Chronicle of Higher Education for news and discussion of your topic!
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