Answered By: Adrian Pua
Last Updated: Oct 31, 2024     Views: 121

This FAQ is a companion to the Finding Newspaper Articles workshop. It includes a recording of the workshop and an outline of the demonstration. Please contact the library for more in-depth information and advice.

 

Finding Newspaper Articles

 

You can access newspapers through these databases

There are different ways to search for newspaper articles

 

Method 1: Keyword search using filters

Select Source type: Newspapers

 

Method 2: Searching within a known newspaper title

Search for the title your are looking for in the Library Catalogue

Follow the links till you can search within the publication

Search within the Sydney Morning Herald  

Search within these popular newspaper titles

 

Other tips

If you still can't find the article, try...

  • Do an advanced search for the Author in the publication
  • Search for the first sentence of the article rather than the title.

 

Method 3: Searching for a topic in a selection of newspapers

Each newspaper has a unique identifier, in Proquest this called a PUBID.

You may want to search in some key Australian news titles for your topic, in which case you will need to collect the PUBID for each newspaper.

1. Find the publication page by searching for the newspaper title.

2. Once your screen displays as below, to 'Search within this publication', hit search to get the PUBID for the newspaper.

3. Open Proquest Central in a new window and start copying and pasting the PUBID's into the search bar

4. Add the PUBID's together inside brackets and connected with an OR. 

5. Add your keywords that you want to search for with AND to the bracket collection of PUBID's

Referencing newspaper articles

You can use our Referencing Tool as a guide for referencing different types of readings. The guidelines for newspapers is here.

 

Bias and fact checking newspaper articles

Before using newspapers, you should check it for bias and inaccuracies. A quick way to get an idea of the bias and factual accuracy for each newspaper is to use Media Bias/Fact Check.

 

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