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320 Media Lane
Cheney, WA 99004
Office: Showalter Hall
Room 104
Office hours for the year of 2023-2024: Tuesdays 9-11 am or by appointment
509-359-2403
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- Text Message us! 509-383-8677
- 509-359-2263 JFK Library reference desk (Cheney)
Journal Articles
These article databases have broad coverage from many disciplines, including current events.
- Academic Search Ultimate (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowAcademic journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books, and videos in all subjects.
- Project MUSE This link opens in a new windowFull text articles and ebooks from humanities and social sciences journals
- SAGE Journals Online This link opens in a new windowArticles from social science & humanities journals, back to 1999. Indexing only for articles older than 1999 & some journals this library does not subscribe to.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowBack files of core scholarly journals in the arts, business, humanities, sciences, and social sciences, from the first issue up to 3-5 years ago.
- Cambridge Journals Online This link opens in a new windowArticles on all subjects from journals published by Cambridge University Press.
- Exploring Race in Society (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowContains scholarly journals and proprietary essays that provide researchers with a deeper understanding of how current issues stem from actions and policies of the past.
African American History
These resources provide more in depth coverage of African American history.
- African American Experience This link opens in a new windowScholarly books and encyclopedias, as well as primary source documents for the history and culture of the African American community.
- America: History & Life (EBSCOhost) -- 1954-present This link opens in a new windowComprehensive database for U.S. and Canadian history from prehistory to the present that includes history journals (as far back as 1954) plus book reviews from core history journals and relevant dissertations.
- Early American Imprints 1639-1800 & 1801-1819 This link opens in a new windowBooks, pamphlets, broadsides and other imprints listed in the renowned bibliographies by Charles Evans (1639-1800) and Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker (1801-1819).
- Women’s Studies Archive (Gale Primary Sources) This link opens in a new windowProvides a history of the social, political, and professional aspects of women's lives and offers a look at the roles, experiences, and achievements of women in society with a focus on the 19th and 20th centuries. Access to diaries, letters, photographs, news clippings, organizational records, and journals on issues such as societal contributions, social status, and women's movements and more.
Just Newspaper Articles
- Access World News (NewsBank) This link opens in a new windowWorldwide news sources covering a wide array of topics and issues. Includes access to over 140 Washington state newspapers including the Seattle Times and Spokesman-Review.
- U.S. Newsstream (ProQuest) -- 1980-present This link opens in a new windowCurrent and archival access to U.S. news featuring key national and regional sources, from 1980s to present.
- Global Newsstream (ProQuest) -- 1980-current This link opens in a new windowSearch the most recent global news content, as well as archives back into the 1980s. News from the US, Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Australia.
- Newspaper Source Plus (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowSelected full-text articles from U.S. newspapers, along with over one million radio and television transcripts.
- Newswires (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowArticles from the Associated Press, United Press International, PR Newswire, Xinhua, CNN Wire, and Business Wire. Coverage only goes back one calendar year.
Identifying Fake News
What makes a news story fake?
- You can't verify its claims: A fake news article may or may not have links in it tracing its sources; if it does, these links may not lead to articles outside of the site's domain or may not contain information pertinent to the article topic.
- Fake news appeals to emotion: Fake news plays on your feelings - it makes you angry or happy or scared. This is to ensure you won't do anything as pesky as fact-checking.
- Authors usually aren't experts: Most authors aren't even journalists, but paid trolls.
- It can't be found anywhere else: If you look up the main idea of a fake news article, you might not find any other news outlet (real or not) reporting on the issue.
- Fake news comes from fake sites: Did you article come from abcnews.com.co? OR Realnewsrightnow.com? These and a host of other URLs are fake news sites.
(Source: Indiana University East Library: http://iue.libguides.com/fakenews)
- How to identify fake news in 10 stepsA guided research worksheet by ProQuest