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PPLE 210-01N Contemporary Issues & Zines: Current newspapers

Recent headline from Salem's daily newspaper The Statesman Journal

Front page of Salem's daily newspaper The Statesman Journal on January 15, 2024

Accessing a topic in Currently Published Newspapers

Here is an example of a search strategy (shown in red) to identify newspaper articles that focused on Donald Trump's presidential inauguration speech that can locate articles in each of the following newspaper oriented databases:

trump and president* and inaugur* and (address* or speech or speak* or official*)

Hatfield Library offers access to 5 databases that provide access to broad varieties of newspapers in various clusters:

  • Access World News (2,200 participating newspapers in North America + 1,200 from other countries + 300 wire services + 200 broadcast news transcripts) 
  • News from Gale OneFile (over 1,000 newspapers including New York Times; Christian Science Monitor and the San Francisco Chronicle) 
  • Newspaper Source (includes transcripts from news programs on NPR, CBS, ABC, FOX, and CNN) 

Hatfield Library also has subscriptions to these 6 resources that provide access to just one particular newspaper at a time:

Willamette University

Willamette University Libraries

Mark O. Hatfield Library
900 State Street.
Salem Oregon 97301
Pacific Northwest College of Art Library
511 NW Broadway.
Portland Oregon 97209