Finding Articles

• Articles in Magazines and Newspapers
  • Finding the Articles
    • How to use the indexes
      • Issues & Controversies and CQ Researcher
      • General OneFile
      • Oregonian
• Internet Sites
  • Evaluating Internet Sites (and other information sources)
  • Authorship
  • Objectivity
  • Accuracy and Currency
  • Compare and evaluate

Articles in Magazines and Newspapers

Chemeketa's library subscribes to many magazines and newspapers. They are shelved just outside room 240 (the Instruction Room). Magazines are in ABC order on the shelves by the title of the magazine. Newspapers are shelved in bins along the wall. Some older newspapers are on microfilm or in computerized form.

Magazines may be checked out for one week. Newspapers do not check out.

Finding the Articles

The library has many indexes to magazines and newspapers available in paper or electronically from our database page

Gale databases

The library subscribes to more than a dozen databases through a service called Gale. Gale databases include both general and specialized subject databases. One of the general databases is General OneFile  How to use, which has many popular magazines.

Issues & Controversies  How to use

This is a magazine that the library subscribes to online. Issues & Controversies covers current and controversial subjects. *A good place to look for a current topic, if you don't have a very specific idea.

CQ Researcher  How to use

Like Issues & Controversies, this is a current-events magazine available online or in the library's reference collection. *A good place to look for a current topic, if you don't have a very specific idea.

If you are accessing these databases from off campus, you will need your My Chemeketa user name and password; host provider students may get in touch with the reference staff for a user name and password.

• How to use the indexes •

All the online indexes are easy, but each works in a slightly different way.

Issues & Controversies and CQ Researcher

Just go to the library's database page click on the name of the database. You will see a small search box near the top of the computer screen. Type a key word, for example "family," and press the Enter key. A list of topics will appear at right. Just click on the one you like.

If you wish to use either of these databases from off campus, you will need your My Chemeketa user name and password.

General OneFile  

The library has many indexes to magazines available in paper or electronically from our library home page (Click "Article Indexes and Databases" to reach the database page.)

Complete instructions for using General Onefile are available at How to Use Gale Periodical Databases.

Oregonian

There is a page on how to use the Oregonian online at http://library.chemeketa.edu/instruction/oregonian.htm.

Internet Sites

Here is a link to a World Almanac entry which explains Internet domain names

      Internet resources. (2009). World almanac and book of facts. Retrieved August 18, 2009 
            from Issues and Controversies. Facts on File News Services.

Evaluating Internet Sites (and other information sources)

Important considerations for evaluating information sources include:

Authorship

• Who wrote the document?
• Is there information about the author's qualifications for writing about this topic? (Education, experience, position?)
• What organization provides the information?

Objectivity

• What appears to be the purpose for publishing this information?
• Does what you know about the organization suggest a bias?

Accuracy and Currency

• When was this document created or last updated?
• Are there errors in spelling and/or grammar?
• Can you spot any errors of fact?
• Does the document list the sources of its information?

Compare and evaluate these pages:

For further help, ask for assistance at the Reference Desk