Find U.S. news content from over 3,000 local, regional, and national sources. Includes printed and online newspapers, blogs, journals, newswires, broadcast transcripts and videos from the 1980s to current, updated daily.
A general catch-all database for all topics. A good place to start, but don't forget it has a lot of non-scholarly stuff in it.
ACM Documents
You can request ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) documents from their publications. You can search and find them at: http://dl.acm.org/
Send the title and Author to jhelmke@dbq.edu and I can purchase it for you.
Tips
Keep track of your results. Print, save, or email in APA format!
Use keyword searching (not natural language)
Use subject terms to narrow
Use abstracts to determine relevance
What if full-text isn’t there? Use the "Find It " Button to locate the article in another database, have the library scan a copy for you (E-Delivery), etc.
Can usually limit by: full-text, type of source (magazine, newspaper, academic/scholarly journal), date, etc.
