Politics: International/Comparative

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 right-hand column of the results page you can:
               
   • Adjust the “Publication Date” bar to a recent date range e.g. 2015 to 2019
         
   • Limit to Newspapers by changing the “Source Type” to “Newspaper Article”
      
   • Limit to Academic Journal Articles by choosing "Peer reviewed journal" under "Availability"
           
         
5. To get results click on "Apply Filters".

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.

To cite the news articles you find with OneSearch do the following:
   

1. Go to the OneSearch results page
      
2. Click on one of your results
      
3. Click on "Citation"
    
   
4. Choose the citation style – APA, MLA, Chicago/Turabian
      
5. Click on "Copy the Citation to Clipboard"
      
6. Paste the citation
      
7. Fix the errors in the citation.  All online citation generators are prone to error (indeed they’re quite good at goofing up) … so you’ll need to clean up the citations you copy.

   
  
For APA style citations for news, magazine, and journal citations is the Purdue Online Writing Lab – APA Style – Reference List: Articles in Periodicals at https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/07/
   
For MLA style try:  
Purdue Online Writing Lab - MLA Style - 
MLA Works Cited: Periodicals at
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/07/

For Chicago/Turabian try:
https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html