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Recommended databases for finding current news articles on ecology and the environment with search tips specific to each database.

General Search Tips
  • For databases that have limited full-text, click the Find It button: wherever it appears in a database.
  • Avoid the browser's green Back Button. Use a database's navigation buttons instead to prevent loss of data.
  • For passwords or additional help in searching, call the Reference Desk at x5074
Database Wild Cards & Boolean Operators
Lexis-Nexis all full text.
Articles from 1980's to this minute		 Use ! for a term with various endings.
Change default search date from previous 6 months to 1 year or more.
Boolean operators in Lexis

Academic Search Premier (from EBSCO)
Articles from 1975 to present.

 On the Search Results page, click Magazines or Newspapers (unless you want to read about Books, or look at Academic Journals).
Use * for a term with various endings.
Click the green "Refine Search" tab to add limiters of date, etc.
Click the blue "Search History/Results" tab to view and/or combine your previous searches.
Chicago Tribune all full text.
Articles from 1985 to present		 Use "quotation marks" for phrase searching
Use * for a term with various endings.
May use Boolean operators AND, OR, NOT, ADJ
SIRSResearcher
Username and password required.
Articles from 1988 - present.		 Use * for a term with various endings.
Use "quotation marks" for phrase searching
Newspaper Source Selected full-text from over 200 US and international newspapers and radio & tv transcripts. 1995 - present. Use * for a term with various endings.
Click the green "Refine Search" tab to add limiters of date, etc.
Click the blue "Search History/Results" tab to view and/or combine your previous searches.
WilsonSelectPlus Mostly full-text.
Articles from 1994 - present.		 Use * for a term with various endings.
Use "quotation marks" for phrase searching
Click the "Searching" tab to perform a new search.
Alternative Press Index links to many free, full-text articles in the leftist press
Username and password required.
Articles from 1991 to the present.		 Use * for a term with various endings.
Use "quotation marks" for phrase searching
Internet news sources searchable, free news sources compiled by your librarians

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