Finding
News and Current Events
INDEXES | REFERENCE
WORKS | WEB
LINKS | PERIODICALS
This is a selective guide to the News and Current Events
resources in the A. Frank Smith, Jr. Library Center and
on the Internet.
INDEXES
Austin
American-Statesman
Indexes the Austin American-Statesman for the last 12 years.
Articles are on microfilm, located in Periodical Services.
1990-present.
Ethnic
NewsWatch
Ethnic NewsWatch is a full text collection of 200 newspapers,
magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native
press. Complete articles dating back to 1995 are available.
More than 7,500 new articles are added each month. The
database is searchable in both English and Spanish, with
titles in both languages. Ethnic NewsWatch provides in-depth
coverage of a wide range of current and historical topics.
Infotrac
Custom Newspapers
A web-based collection of local, regional, and national
full text newspapers, including the Austin American-Statesman,
Dallas Morning News, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, New York
Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science
Monitor, etc. Backfiles go as far back as 1996 for most
newspapers.This site works best with Internet Explorer.
New
York Times
Current online edition of the New York Times. Also indexed
in Academic
Search Complete: includes full text for the New
York Times from 1989 to the present. (You will find NYT
articles (1851 - present) in print or microfilm in the
library's Periodical Services.
New York Times Index
This print version of the New York Times Index covers The
New York Times from 1851 to the present.
Newspaper
Abstracts
Indexes and abstracts more than 30 United States and regional
newspapers, including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times,
Washington Post, and USA Today. The Wall Street Journal
(Eastern Edition) is indexed beginning January 1, 1990.
World
News Connection
An online news service with an extensive array of translated
and English-language news and information. Coverage of
local media sources and current events in a specific country
or region. Compiled from thousands of non-US media sources.
Covers significant socioeconomic, political, scientific,
technical, and environmental issues and events. Includes "gray" literature.
The information is obtained from full-text and summaries
of newspaper articles, conference proceedings, television
and radio broadcasts, periodicals, and non-classified technical
reports. Updated every government business day. Generally,
new information is available within 48-72 hours from the
time of original publication or broadcast. For Southwestern community
only. Note to Mac OSX users: current version of Internet
Explorer will not work with this site; use Netscape.
REFERENCE
WORKS
To find printed reference material
relevant to your topic start with the
library's Voyager
catalog. Do a Reference Materials
search using keywords to describe your
topic. You can also check the library's
Web pages for subject guides for specific
topics such as Sociology to find other
suggested sources.
Below are a few titles to get you
started. To find call number and location
information, search the Voyager
catalog.
Editorials on File
Indexed collection of full-text newspaper editorials and
cartoons exactly as they appear in over 150 United States
and Canadian newspapers.1987-present.
WEB
LINKS
1st
Headlines
This site headlines news stories each day from over 400
newspapers, broadcast and online sources.
BBC
World News
Offered by the British Broadcasting Corporation's BBC Online,
this site's features include a summary in RealAudio, World
Service available 24 hours a day in over 44 languages,
an online magazine called beeb, built around existing BBC
TV programs, and an Education page.
Best
Information on the Net-Current
News
Maintained by St. Ambrose University, this site provides
a list of good news-related sources.
CNN.com
Constantly updated news from the round-the-clock news service.
An audio link allows CNN television news to be heard
live.
Central
Europe Online
Extensive general information magazine on central Europe,
covering the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Poland, Hungary,
and Slovenia. It offers daily news, articles from the local
press, detailed travel and cultural accounts, basic information
about each of the countries covered, political background,
and a business and economics section.
Digital
Librarian: News & Journalism
Extensive list of news and journalism sites.
Documents
in the News
Maintained by the University of Michigan, Documents in
the News "identifies issues about government making news
headlines and web sources with additional information."
Kidon
Media-Link
An independent non-profit site on the Internet with a complete
directory of newspapers, magazines, radio and television
news stations and other news sources from around the world.
My
Virtual Newspaper
Part of Refdesk.com, this is a one-stop site for all things
Internet: online United States and world newspapers, weather,
sports, reference, encyclopedia (50 areas), facts on file,
FAQs, tutorials, search engines, etc. Categories include:
wire services, news summaries, weather, sport, politics
and business headlines, entertainment, science-tech and
health news. No longer updated.
NewspaperLinks
Maintained by the Newspaper Association of America, this
gateway is fairly comprehensive, with links to more than
1,000 daily, 452 weekly, and 127 international newspapers
and other Canadian, business, and alternative newspapers.
Newswise
Provides access to a searchable database of recent news
events in the fields of science, medicine, and business.
NewsLink:
Texas Newspapers
Links to newspapers, magazines, and TV stations in Texas.
PERIODICALS
To find holdings and location information
for specific periodical titles (both
print and online), search the Voyager
catalog.
To find citations or online full-text
for articles in periodicals on your
topic, try the resources listed above
under Indexes.
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