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Communication Studies
-- Library Module 1
Finding Journal Articles
& Newspaper Articles
- To
get to this page on the Internet:
- Go to
the Cabrillo College Library homepage (libwww.cabrillo.edu)
- Click
on Internet Links
- Click
on Communication
- Scroll
down to Course-Related Materials and click
on Comm 8 -- Library Modules
- Click
on Library Module 1 (http://libwww.cabrillo.edu/depts/communication/comm8-module1.html)
Thousands
upon thousands of journals and magazines are published around
the world, covering virtually any topic you can imagine - have
you ever heard of Ceramic World Review, or the Journal
of College Student Psychotherapy? When researching a topic,
journal articles are an excellent source for background information,
detailed studies, or simply perspective on your topic. If you
can find a few good journal articles written about your topic,
you have found a goldmine!
What's the
difference between a journal and a magazine?
Magazines are generally written for the general public, with writing
that is usually non-technical and easy to understand. Journals
are typically written for researchers or professionals in a given
specialized field. They often contain original research results
or surveys of research topics, with writing that is more specialized
than found in magazines.
The Cabrillo
College Library subscribes to thousands of magazines and journals,
very few of which are actually in the Library building itself.
Over 90% of the titles we subscribe to can be found in several
subscription databases, which are large databases
containing either summaries or the complete text of hundreds of
thousands of articles.
Let's take
a look at one of those databases:
You are now
looking at a listing of all of the subscription databases the
Library makes available to you. As you can see, these databases
cover lots of different topics, and can be used to find journal
articles, magazine articles, and much more! Take a few minutes
to explore the descriptions of a few of these databases (click
on the circled "i" icons for information about a database).
Exercise:
Write down the names of two databases that might be good
places to find information about immigration reform.
Database name:______________________________________________
Database name:______________________________________________
OK, let's
continue:
- Click
on the first database, Academic Search Premier (from
off-campus, you will need to enter your Cabrillo library card
barcode number at this point)
Academic
Search Premier includes the text of articles from nearly 5,000
publications, mostly journals, on virtually any academic research
topic. As with most search tools, you can simply enter your topic
terms and go, or you can take advantage of the search options
listed on the search page.
- Type in
some words to search on, but don't click the Search
button yet.
- Click
in the box next to Full Text. This will eliminate
any article summaries from your results, so your results will
have only articles you can read on your computer screen (or
print, etc.)
- Click
in the box next to Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals.
This eliminates articles from any magazines, leaving you only
with articles from scholarly journals.
- OK, now
click the Search button
The search
results screen looks like the search results screens of most search
tools (Google search results, for example), with each linked item
representing a "hit" on your search. The listings include
article title, publication name, date, pages, and other identifying
information - usually enough to determine if the article is of
interest to you. Since we restricted our search to Full Text articles
only, every article listed has a link to the text, either PDF
Full Text or HTML Full Text. Articles
available in PDF format are basically scanned copies of the pages
from the actual publication, nicely formatted and often containing
illustrations, ads, and pieces of other articles. Articles in
HTML format are simply text pages much like this one, occasionally
including illustrations or other material.
Exercise:
Find three useful articles on your topic in Academic Search Premier.
- Author
(if any)___________________________________________
Article title______________________________________________
_______________________________________________________
Journal title _____________________________________________
Article
publication date____________________________________
Volume & Issue number (if any)_____________________________
Pages (if listed)__________________________________________
- Author
(if any)___________________________________________
Article title______________________________________________
_______________________________________________________
Journal
title _____________________________________________
Article
publication date____________________________________
Volume & Issue number (if any)_____________________________
Pages (if listed)__________________________________________
- Author
(if any)___________________________________________
Article title______________________________________________
_______________________________________________________
Journal title _____________________________________________
Article
publication date____________________________________
Volume & Issue number (if any)_____________________________
Pages (if listed)__________________________________________
| Finding
Newspaper Articles |
Newspapers
are published every day in cities across the country and across
the world. Newspapers from major cities are excellent sources
for information about current events and issues from around the
world. In addition, most newspapers, whether published in a large
city or a small town, are good places to find information about
local events, or events that have a significant impact on the
area. The New York Times, for instance, would likely provide detailed
stories on the progress of the rebuilding efforts at the World
Trade Center site. The Santa Cruz Sentinel, on the other hand,
publishes numerous articles on the farming issues affecting Santa
Cruz County.
ProQuest
Newspapers Database
The Cabrillo
library subscribes to an excellent database, ProQuest
Newspapers, covering every article from every day's issue
from five major U.S. newspapers: the New York Times,
the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times,
the Washington Post, and the Christian Science Monitor.
- Go to
the Library homepage (http://libwww.cabrillo.edu)
- Click
on Fulltext Articles, on the left side of the screen
- At the
top of the far right column of databases, you'll find a News
category
- Click
on National Newspaper Articles
- In the
search box, type some words on a topic of interest
- Click
on the drop-down box next to Date Range and
select Last 3 months
- Click
the Search button
Exercise:
Find three useful newspaper articles on your topic in ProQuest
Newspapers.
- Author
(if any)___________________________________________
Article title______________________________________________
_______________________________________________________
Newspaper name_________________________________________
Article publication date____________________________________
Pages (if listed)_________________________________________
- Author
(if any)___________________________________________
Article title______________________________________________
_______________________________________________________
Newspaper name_________________________________________
Article publication date____________________________________
Pages (if listed)__________________________________________
- Author
(if any)___________________________________________
Article title______________________________________________
_______________________________________________________
Newspaper name_________________________________________
Article publication date____________________________________
Pages (if listed)__________________________________________
Newspaper
Websites
Most newspapers
also provide a website with an electronic version of their paper,
sometimes including additional information not available in the
print edicition. Finding these newspaper websites is a good way
to locate stories from outside the U.S. Of course, not all newspapers
are published in English, or in any other language you might be
able to read!
Finding information
published somewhere other than where you live is also an excellent
way to discover different perspectives on issues, often very different
from what our local or even national newspapers provide.
You can often
easily find newspapers from a specific country by searching the
country name and the world "newspapers" in a search
engine (e.g., Ireland newspapers). Alternately, you can use one
of the many websites that collect links to hundreds of news sources
around the world. The News Directory is one such
website.
- Go to www.newsdirectory.com
- Under
Browse Newspapers by Country, click on a geographic
area (not the U.S.), then click on a specific country
- From the
resulting list of daily newspapers, explore and read a few articles
in two or three of the listed newspapers.
Exercise:
Find three articles from newspapers outside the U.S. that cover
a familiar topic but from a different perspective, or articles
that cover interesting local issues.
- Author
(if any)___________________________________________
Article title______________________________________________
_______________________________________________________
Newspaper name_________________________________________
Article
publication date____________________________________
Volume number (if any)___________________________________
Pages (if listed)_________________________________________
- Author
(if any)___________________________________________
Article title______________________________________________
_______________________________________________________
Newspaper
name_________________________________________
Article
publication date____________________________________
Volume number (if any)___________________________________
Pages (if listed)__________________________________________
- Author
(if any)___________________________________________
Article title______________________________________________
_______________________________________________________
Newspaper name_________________________________________
Article publication date____________________________________
Volume number (if any)___________________________________
Pages (if listed)__________________________________________
When investigating
a topic for a research pape, you will hopefully find a number
of good books, websites, and journal or newspaper articles. These
sources should be included at the end of your research paper,
as a References, or Works Cited, list. Including your sources
enables your instructor, or anyone else reading your research,
to identify and track down the sources you used, if they wish
to.
Works cited
lists are always written in a consistent pattern, following guidelines
created by the Modern Language Association (MLA),
the American Psychological Association (APA),
or some other editorial organization. For this exercise, we will
be using the APA guidelines. The complete guidelines are quite
lengthy and detailed, but we have listed below some of the more
common items.
APA
citation pattern for a journal or magazine from a subscription
database:
Author last
name, author initials (publication date or year in parenthesis).
Article title. Journal name, volume (issue number in
parenthesis), page range. Retrieved month day, year, from database
name database.
Cowan, N (2003).
Looking for luck in all the wrong places. Journal of Mathematics,
78, 445-487. Retrieved July 24, 2006, from Academic Search
Premier database.
APA
citation pattern for a newspaper article from a subscription database:
Author last
name, author initials (publication year, date in parenthesis).
Article title (note: if no author, begin entry with article title,
followed by parenthetical publication date). Newspaper name,
page range. Retrieved month day, year, from database name
database.
Strawberry
crop expanding across the state (2006, June 27). Los Angeles
Times, B4. Retrieved July 24, 2006, from ProQuest Newspapers
database.
APA
citation pattern for a newspaper article from a newspaper website:
Author last
name, author initials (publication year, date in parenthesis).
Article title (note: if no author, begin entry with article title,
followed by parenthetical publication date) [Electronic version].
Newspaper name, page range.
Safire, W.
(2005, May 2). What's in a word? [Electronic version]. Washington
Post, C5.
As you can
see in the above examples, you don't need to include a piece of
information (e.g., author) if it is not listed in your source.
Also, when listing items with more than one author, reverse the
order of all of the names (e.g., Sweeney, E., Kovacs, E., Sandino,
A.).
Exercise:
List four of the sources you located earlier, using the
APA style guidelines described above.
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Congratulations!
You have completed Module 1. Remember to turn it in by the due
date.
.7/06
G. Romero & L. Joakimides |