You can use the links below to search for articles in magazines, newspapers and journals about your topic.
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Full-text access to more than 450 journals related to communication and mass media studies.
Up to date full-text of the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Tribune
Boolean operators help you with searching in our database. I have 3 of them below with examples. Remember to keep your search terms simple to just the keywords that relate to the subject of your research and you should be able to find good articles for your assignment.
Quotation Marks: To search multiple worded search terms together.
"Monterey Peninsula College"
"Camera Lucida"
"Male Gaze"
AND: To tell the database that these search terms must appear in your results and to help you narrow your search.
Barthes AND "Camera Lucida"
"Laura Mulvey" AND "Male Gaze"
"John Berger" AND art
OR: When you want to search for either term and help expand your search.
("J.M.W. Turner" OR "John Martin") and "landscape painting"
"Feminist Theory" OR Feminism
"Male Gaze" AND (voyeurism OR scopophilia)
This is a video that will show you how to access the MPC Library research databases with a specific focus on resources for Dr. Bachman's English 2 class.
This video tutorial shows you how to search for articles in the Academic Search Complete database. You can access Academic Search Complete directly via the link on the left (instead of going to the library homepage to access it like what is shown at the beginning of this tutorial). If you have any questions or run into any problems please feel free to email me.
This is a video tutorial that will show you how to access the US Major Dailies database from the MPC Library homepage and help you with the basics to navigate and search for newspaper articles from the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and the Chicago Tribune, all from one database.