Custom+Newspapers

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 * About Custom Newspapers:**
 * Database Name || Subject Area || Time Period || Result List Features || Help/About Information || Other Special Features ||
 * Custom Newspapers || Covers all subjects found within specific, preselected newspaper titles. || 1980-present || Results are listed by relevancy but can be further limited by full-text articles, articles with images, or the section of the newspaper the article was found (i.e. opinion, sports, news). || There are no true tutorials or help tips but the database is also fairly easy to use. It works similarly a microfiche machine if it were powered by a search engine. ||  ||



This is a picture of the Custom Newspapers home page. To search, use the search bar on the right-hand side of the page. You can specify what it is that you would like to search for (subject, keyword, the entire document, etc.) and you can limit what kind of results you would like. Below the search bar is a small sampling of the "top stories" in various categories.

A simple search for "Poland" yields the above results. Users can opt to see articles by date of publication (excellent for current event assignments) or by relevance (more suitable for specific topic searches). The users may also search within the returned results to specify topics even more or they can limit the results to yield just full-text articles, or articles with images.