Academic Help: College News
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About the College & University News Search Form
The College & University News Search Form is located in the News section of LexisNexis Academic. By using the College & University News search form, you will be able to accomplish tasks such as:
- Find articles from your own institution's newspaper
- Search the Chronicle for Higher Education
- Search college newspapers by a specific topic like "underage drinking" to see different viewpoints from different campuses around the country.
Search For
The "Search For" section allows you to input your own key terms. In these search boxes, you can put words or phrases that convey a particular topic, like "pregnancy." This is useful when you need to browse several articles on one topic. The Search For section also makes it easy to find particular articles you know specific information about. For example, if you need to find articles by a specific author, type the name in the search box and select "Author" from the drop-down box. In addition to a full text search ("Everywhere" in the drop down box,) you may use the drop down box to find articles:
- by Author
- by Headline
- by Subject Term
- Articles that contain your input term at least 5 times
Specify Date
One of the most efficient ways to narrow your results set is by specifying the date. If you're researching a current event, try narrowing the date to the last 6 months. If you're researching a past event, use the "Is Between..." option to set the dates yourself. Choosing a time period to search through will change your results drastically. You will be much more likely to find relevant results.
Select Source
On the College & University News search form, simply click the check boxes of those sources you'd like to search.
Your other option is to use the "Edit in Power Search" link to navigate to the Power Search form. From there, you can do things like use the PUBLICATION() string to search one particular newspaper in the College & University News source.