Research Strategies

 

Tips for using the ProQuest Historical Newspaper (New York Times archives) database for finding headlines:

  1. Check “General article” on article types and uncheck other types
  2. Enter a year: Where you see Select, drop down the arrow by All Dates to Between, and put in Jan. 1 and Dec. 31 of that year.
  3. This will give you all headlines for the year. NYT is a newspaper of record, so it will give you world headlines. However, these are from the perspective of American journalists.
  4. Click on links. You may want to view pagemap version (link at top) to see the entire page. You can also browse page by page.
  5. **Printing must be done through the ProQuest print link. Otherwise you won’t get the entire ad or article.

Tips for using WebFeet Directory of Academic Web Sites

  1. Access WebFeet through our Subscription database page
  2. Look under the category Arts & Social Studies, choose Popular Culture
  3. If you access and use sites from WebFeet, you do not need to fill out a Web Evaluation, even though these are available on the free Web. By their inclusion in this database, they are determined to be accurate and authoritative.