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Multidisciplinary Databases

Multidisciplinary Databases

Multidisciplinary databases allow you to search for information on a topic across subject areas. This is often a great way to get started searching for articles. Multidisciplinary databases can help you understand the social and cultural context surrounding your research topic.  

Find Newspapers Articles

Depending on your research topic you may need to find current or historical newspaper articles. A complete list of the newspaper databases available can be found on the Database A-Z list, by selecting database type Newspaper and Newswires OR Historical Newspapers.

Need more help searching for newspapers?

Search Strategies

Are you getting too many results?

Use the word AND (in all-caps) between your search terms.

  • Dior AND "new look"
  • "fashion designers" AND punk

Search for a Specific Phrase

Put quotations around a group of words like "new look" to retrieve results with that exact wording.

 

Do you need more results?

Use the word OR (in all-caps) between your search terms. 

  • 19th century OR nineteenth century
  • realise OR realize

Use an * at the end of a word to search for all forms of that word. 

  • educat* will return results for education, educator, educated, educating;etc.
  • environment* will also return results for environmentalism and environmentalist

An * can also be used to replace a character in a word.

  • wom*n will search for women and woman

 

Do you need more relevant results?

Use the word NOT (in all-caps) between your search terms.

  • UT NOT Tennessee
  • advertisement NOT magazine

Try grouping the above strategies in a single search: 

  • (children OR adolescents) AND disability AND (19th century OR nineteenth century)

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