Chemeketa's library subscribes to many magazines and newspapers. They are shelved just outside room 240 (the Instruction Room: Map). Magazines are in ABC order on the shelves by the title of the magazine. Newspapers are shelved in bins along the wall. Some older newspapers are on microfilm or in computerized form.
Magazines may be checked out for one week. Newspapers do not check out.
The library has many indexes to magazines and newspapers available in paper or electronically from our catalog page (Click "Article Indexes and Databases" to reach the database page.) Here are several that you may find helpful for this assignment:
If you are accessing these databases from off campus, you will need your My Chemeketa username and password.
All the online indexes are easy, but each works in a slightly different way.
Just click on the name of the database. You will see a small search box at the left side of the computer screen. Type a key word, for example "family," and press the Enter key. A list of topics will appear at right. Just click on the one you like.
Clicking on the name of the database brings up a search page that takes key words. The search form makes it easy to combine searches together.
If you use a search word that has many meanings, for example, "race," you may wish to use a subject heading word. If you know a subject word used by MAS Ultra, you can pull down the part of the screen that says "Default Fields" and change it to "SU Subject Terms."
Here are lists of some subject words used in MAS Ultra that deal with family, class, race, or gender. Click on a term below to see each list:
| Family | Class | Race | Gender |
When you click the Search button, a list of articles will appear. The newest articles will be at the beginning of a list. To see more information about an article, click on the highlighted title.
Many articles have links to full text, where you can read or print the article online. If an article has full text, you can also e-mail it to yourself. More information on printing, saving, and e-mailing articles is at the EBSCOhost instructions page.
If the magazine is one the library has ("Chemeketa subscribes..."), you will need the name of the magazine and the date to find it on the shelf.
Here are a few sites where you can find reliable information on current-events topics:
You will find some basic measures for deciding how reliable a source is at http://newterra.chemeketa.edu/library/instruction/searching.htm. In general, published magazines and newspapers are more reliable than Internet sites. Some Web sites, however, such as government statistics sites, are considered quite reliable.
For further help, ask for assistance at the Reference Desk