Internal Database Training: Ethnic Newswatch

Overview

• ProQuest defaults to advanced search
• To get to basic search, click on "Ethnic NewsWatch"
• Contains
  • 2.5 million articles
  • 538 titles total - journals, magazines and newspapers from minority publications
    • 2 ways to view publication list
      • "View title list" - spreadsheet to download
      • Publication search - allows to sort by ethnic group or resource type
    • not too many peer-reviewed publications ... mainly periodicals
  • Beginning around 1959 to present day
  • Ethnic Groups, Minorities, Culture, Religion, Independent Press, Ethnic Studies
    • Black
    • Arab
    • Hispanic
    • Jewish
    • Native People
  • Course use
    • sociology
    • IDS
    • business communication
    • special education
  • Instructional use
    • history of hot topics to look back on popular topics such as affirmative action, desegregation, etc.

Advanced Search

• Can sort by ethnic group
• Most are periodicals but it does contain some dissertations & theses and reports
• Field Codes
  • helps with the search tips and help guide

Results Page

• Defaults to relevance sorting
• Article level detail
  • "turn on/off search term navigation" to highlight the search terms within the article
  • In abstract, metadata info is listed
• Suggested sources in right column for related articles
• Students pulling quotes - double check the text, Heather has seen some typos perhaps some automated 
• Use publication search to see articles for that particular issue
  • full text but not image of magazine/publications
  • most are full text