Bryce, a student I was helping, was working on a project that required the use of news sources for opinions about current electric vehicles. He used Google and was frustrated that so many online newspapers required a paid subscription before they gave him complete articles. I mentioned to him that the Library had access to newspapers if he used one of the paid-for databases. To him this was good news!
U.S. Newsstream library database accesses many U.S. newspapers. Note that home or off-campus access to the Library databases requires a login and password, the same as that used for the Canvas login.
Here is a partial example of a local Utah newspaper article. It's from the Salt Lake Tribune in 2024, about the idea of building a gondola to solve traffic problems in a popular skier's canyon:
SIRS Researcher is an easier to use source for controversial, social "Leading Issues." The results are mostly from newspapers and popular magazines and videos with a few scholarly articles. These newspaper articles are more likely to be more credible than many you would find on the Open Web with Google, etc. Also try the similar database: In Context: Opposing Viewpoints.
Daily free 24-hour access passes are available to you and faculty! You may access this each day without paying a fee. Instructions:
For information about Ethics and Standards, and also about Evaluating Information for Credibility, see Harvard's The Journalist's Resource.
The next section is about attribution or documenting sources, which is an important academic standard.
