IU East subscribes to many news sources, and can be an excellent way of accessing a lot of content without paying for an individual subscription. But the library’s databases mostly seem to be designed around topic searching – not starting the day with a specific, favorite newspaper. How can an IU East student or professor quickly get the full text of one periodical?
You can find whatever journal, magazine, or newspaper here (or from the library’s home page, choose ‘more top library resources, databases, and e-books’ and the click ‘Find It’. This will let you browse each issue as if you were looking at its table of contents, taking in only the latest issue as if the print copy were in your hands. All of the usual database benefits are available – text-to-speech, copy/pasting, etc. – but the format is just the news of the day, uncluttered by what came a week or a month ago.
For example, one periodical of significant interest to professors is the Chronicle of Higher Education, which offers in-depth articles on important educational trends from academic freedom to student retention to faculty burnout. It also includes an extensive job board. Several databases have access to it, all listed here – but it can also be used directly at this link.
There are a lot of other major newspapers. The Washington Post is in several databases (I recommend using the ProQuest Central version for the most recent issues) as is the New York Times (I recommend using Nexis Uni for the current issue). Even the local Palladium-Item is available (although note that this database includes stories that originated with the Pal-Item, and not stories republished from other Gannet Newspapers like the Indianapolis Star or USA Today).
Not every newspaper is available, but articles from a periodical you want can still be requested through Interlibrary Loan.
Need help finding the news that you need? You can Ask Us at iueref@iu.edu!