Before you start searching, take the time to brainstorm research questions and keywords.You have been looking at news stories that report on very specific moments in time. News doesn't happen in a vacuum, though. Taking the time to brainstorm questions and keywords about the larger context surrounding your news story will help guide and focus your searching.
It will also make your searching easier! You'll have multiple options of words to try, if some don't seem to be as useful as others.
Because library databases aren't good at searching natural language (the way we speak and ask questions naturally), it's especially important to break down your topic or questions into keywords.
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Start here.These databases are great for background information or for an initial search. Then try other databases listed in the next few tabs. Where you search depends on which topic you've chosen, and what you want to know about that topic.
Scholarly research, trade journals, and popular news/magazines covering all disciplines. A good place to start for most research topics. (An expanded version of Academic Search Premier.)
Contains topic overviews, news/magazine sources, trade publications, and scholarly information on many important current events, issues, and debates.
Use these databases to find news and magazine articlesProvides access to more than 2,300 major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers, as well as leading titles from around the world plus transcripts of radio and TV broadcasts.
Use these databases to find sports and health-related articlesIndexes journal articles on physical education, physical training, sports medicine, and other sports-related topics. Some full text.
Scholarly research, quick summaries, and evidence-based information sheets covering 50 nursing specialties, speech and language pathology, nutrition, general health and medicine, and more.
Try these databases for business-focused researchBusiness-focused database with coverage of marketing, management, information technology, operations, human resources, accounting, finance, and economics. Contains scholarly journals, trade publications, and news/magazine sources.
Provides business and industry content such as market share reports, SWOT analyses, corporate chronologies and company histories, and articles from academic, trade, and news publications.
Try these databases for education-focused researchThe premier database for research in education and related fields. Content includes journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, dissertations, and books dating back to 1966.
Try these databases for historical & political researchProvides access to scholarly journals and magazines covering events in U.S. history.
Try these databases for technology-focused researchAcademic journals, leading trade journals, professional and technical society journals, and conference proceedings for applied sciences and computing disciplines. Some full text.
Full-text scholarly journals and professional publications covering the biological sciences, computing, engineering, and technology.