Purdue Promise - Getting Started: Resources for Your News Assignment
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Useful Places for Finding Current Events and News Stories
Purdue University Libraries Homepage: www.lib.purdue.edu
Libraries news databases:
- Newspaper Source: Contains content from newspapers and newswires from 1994 - present. Inclues CNN and other network news.
- LexisNexis Academic: Contains content from national newspapers and newswires.
Tutorial - How to find articles in specific news sources using LexisNexis Academic
- PressDisplay: Allows full-text access to the current editions of over 450 newspapers from around the world, including color images.
- Factiva: Focuses on business and stock-market news, but includes articles in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times, among others.
Lafayette/Indianapolis web news sources:
Some free national/international web news sources: