Research @ Rod Library

Use Advanced Search to improve your search.
Search results default to Academic Journals - so be sure to click on either the Magazines option or the News option if searching for news. High quality sources covered by Gale Academic OneFile include:
Atlantic (liberal magazine)
Mother Jones (very liberal magazine)
Progressive (liberal magazine)
Reason (libertarian magazine)
Washington Post

To focus your search results on "news" click on either: Magazines or Newspapers.
High quality news sources found in Academic Search Elite include:
National Review (conservative magazine)
New Republic (liberal magazine)
New Yorker (liberal magazine)
Policy Review (conservative magazine)
Time (moderate magazine)
USA Today (moderate magazine)

Nexis Uni is a very large and very current news database.
Because Nexis Uni is so large you may want to limit your search results by:
Timeline (recent articles) --- Publication Type (e.g. newspapers) --- Sources (e.g. New York Times).

Particularly good sources found by Nexis Uni include:
Al Jazeera --- BBC --- Guardian(London) --- Jerusalem Post --- Los Angeles Times --- Morning Edition (NPR) --- National Public Radio - New York Times --- The Sunday Times (London Times) --- The Times (London Times)
Toronto Star

Full text articles from the Des Moines Register (minus photos) from 1999 to present.

Great source for conservative and liberal views.
Results will include options for Magazines (particularly good for conservative views) and News (particularly good for liberal views).

Magazines
America (liberal - American Catholic Church - Jesuit) --- American Conservative (libertarian - non-partisan) --- Atlantic (liberal - American) --- Canadian Dimension (very liberal) --- Chronicle of Higher Education (liberal - Higher Ed) --- Commonweal (liberal - American Catholic Church) --- Foreign Affairs (non-partisan - American) --- Foreign Policy (non-partisan - American) --- Harvard International Review (non-partisan) --- Humanist (non-partisan - secular - American) --- Mother Jones (very liberal) --- National Review (conservative - American) --- New American (very conservative) --- Maclean’s (conservative - Canadian) --- Progressive (very liberal) --- Reason (libertarian - American) --- Spectator (conservative - British) --- U.S. News & World Report (moderately conservative - American) --- Wilson Quarterly (non-partisan - American) --- Yale Global (non-partisan)

Newspapers and News Programs
The Age (liberal - Australia) --- All Africa (website of news sources from Africa) --- Christian Science Monitor (moderate - American) --- CNN (liberal) --- Daily Beast (non-partisan?) --- Globe & Mail (moderate - Toronto) --- London Evening Standard (moderate) --- New York Times (moderate-liberal) --- Philadelphia Inquirer (moderate) --- Sydney Morning Herald (conservative - Australia) --- Washington Post (moderate-liberal) --- Washington Times (conservative)