BIOL 1000 - Strategies for Academic Success

How to find quality news articles on political issues with OneSearch “Advanced Search.”
    

1. Head to the Rod Library website – http://www.library.uni.edu     (or just google – UNI Library)
      
2. Click on the “Advanced Search” option under the OneSearch search blank.
       
3. Type in your topic and search.  
         
4. After you get (too many) results you can focus on recent news articles as follows:
   
   On the left-hand column of the results page try the following:
           
• Check the box labeled “Full Text Online"
      
• Adjust the “Publication Date” bar to a recent date range e.g. 2014 to 2016
      
• Change the “Source Type” to “Newspaper Article”
      
      
5. To get results click on "Find Online" and then one of the suggested links.
   

To focus your searches using OneSearch try the following commands:

Another powerful technique is to search for your topic (keywords) in the title of articles.  To do this change the dropdown menu in the Advanced Search from “Keyword” to “Title”

For the following search example the phrase “climate change” must appear in the title of the article as must some version of farming or agriculture.

Be sure to limit the results to “Full Text” and “News” and set the “Publication Date” to recent years.