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What's on this page Cite Your Sources
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Use ProQuest Newspapers (NY Times, LA Times, Wall
Street Journal, Washington Post, & Christian Science
Monitor)
If you are off campus and accessing one of these full text databases, you type your library card number.
Click to go to Advanced Search -- you are offered more options. Type in ethics just to get a sense of what is available. Articles are presented in descending order by date, with the most recent at the top. From the results list, you can select an article, and/or select a specific subject to use in a subsequent search. Or, search on a specific topic. I chose to search for the topic ethics and photographs.
Here are reports about an Associated Press story that includes a picture of a fallen U.S. soldier.
Your turn. What did you find? _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ Use Google Google has a database composed JUST of news stories. It's at news.google.com Click to go to Advanced news search.
Your turn. What did you find? _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ Search specific newspapers. If you want to search individual newspapers, you will find that many are linked to the library's Internet Links page:
It would be good to explore whether any individual paper you use has a Ethics section. New York Times does --
Your turn. What did you find? _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ Periodical articles -- Use library online databases.
Using Academic Search Premier, I might then identify the following article:
Your turn. What did you find? _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ Books -- Use reference books For example, for this topic the library has International Encyclopedia of Communications which has an article on Photojournalism that includes a section about ethics: "Debates over appropriate ethical conduct and access to and treatment of sources persist within photojournalism. Spot news coverage frequently involves photographing people in distress, raising questions about photojournalism's role in recording human tragedy and its potential for invading To find reference books, use the Library Catalog. Select a broad subject terms and limit to reference as a location.
Your turn. What did you find? _____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Books -- Use NetLibrary eBooks -- The library offers access to about 18,000 academic electronic books.
Your turn. What did you find? _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ Other sources for books: visit other libraries (!!). Or, go to books.google.com. If you use the Advanced Search mode, you can limit years published and whether the book is fully available. Google is digitizing millions of books. YouTube video of a digitizer. Every single page in every book is being digitized, but not every page of every book is available -- yet. There's a publishers' lawsuit that restricts access to recently published titles. But information wants to be free, I think, and it will eventually work out. Even at this stage, there are vast amounts of full text available that it is useful to explore. Your turn. Go to books.google.com and search. What did you find? _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ How do you reference your resources?
Remember: ProQuest and EBSCOhost offer one click approaches to cition creation with the databases. For book citations, use WorldCat.org. Click on Cite/Export. How to get to this page on the Internet
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