Skyline College Library

Researching Civil Liberties Issues

Databases for Finding Newspaper, Magazine & Journal Articles
Catalog for Finding Books
Links to Selected Websites, including Sites Related to George Orwell & Civil Liberties Today

Databases for Newspaper, Magazine & Journal Articles:

Try the following search words in the databases below:

• terrorism AND civil rights
• civil liberties AND Patriot Act

InfoTrac Newspapers
on campus or off-campus w/ library card
Full-text articles from the N.Y. Times, S.F. Chronicle, S.F. Examiner, San Jose Mercury News, L.A. Times, Contra Costa Times, Sacramento Bee, Fresno Bee, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Seattle Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Times (London, England), Guardian (London, England), Manila Bulletin (Philippines), Korea Times, International Herald Tribune, La Opinión

InfoTrac Expanded Academic ASAP
on campus or off-campus w/ library card
Articles from academic journals & popular magazines; excellent general periodical database. 

• To search only for articles that include the full text (the whole article) in the database, check the "articles with text" box under "Limit the current search" (below the text entry box)
• To narrow searches, combine concepts with AND.
• Once you find one article specifically on your topic, click on any relevant subject headings (near the bottom of the article page) to find more articles on that topic.
  
  

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
on campus or off-campus w/ library card
Full-text articles from a wide range of news, business & other publications.

• Click on News at left of home page
• In the box for: "Step One: Select a news category", select: General News
• In the box for: "Step Two: Select a news source", select: Major Papers
• In the first entry box under: "Step Three: Enter search terms", enter word(s) for your desired topic, e.g. civil liberties AND terrorism
• Click the Search button

Ethnic Newswatch
on campus or off-campus w/ library card
Full-text articles from about 200 newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press, in English and Spanish.

Books:

The PLS Online Catalog is the online catalog to find books in Skyline Library and in all libraries in the Peninsula Library Sytem. After clicking on the link above to access the catalog, follow the steps below:

• Type search words (title, author and/or subject) in the first search box & click Submit.
• The search results will show books and other materials in all libraries in the PLS system.
• To Limit your results to books at Skyline College Library, scroll down to Limit to: Location: pull-down menu below the search boxes, scroll down in the Location: pull-down menu, select Skyline College & then click the Submit button.
  

Links to Recommended Websites:

Alternative Press Center
Links to publications presenting alternative viewpoints

Newspaper Websites
Links to directories of newspaper & news websites from around the world.

Link to recommended article from the InfoTrac OneFile database (on campus or off-campus w/ library card):
Summary of USA PATRIOT Act: The Threat to Civil Liberties
from Synthesis/Regeneration Spring 2002: p. 5 (2)

Websites Related to George Orwell & Civil Liberties Today (selected & organized by Evy Posamentier)

G Government Secrecy: Project on Government Secrecy (Federation of American Scientists):

E Electronic Privacy Information Center’s Privacy Resources

O Office of Global Communications

R Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press’s “Homefront Confidential” Report
(How the War on Terrorism Affects Access to Information and the Public’s Right to Know)

G Google News in Goodspeak (from the Sims School of Information Management at UCB)

E Electronic Frontier Foundation’s “Chilling Effects of Anti-Terrorism”

O Orwell E-texts (from the University of Adelaide library)

R Records and documents removed from the public domain at “The Memory Hole”

W Who Said It? McCarthy or Ashcroft? Take the quiz at Morons.org

E Everyone’s favorite student club: Students for an Orwellian Society

L Learn from freedom of information advocates around the world (from George Washington Univ.)

L Last but not least: this pizza place replaced the bookstore Orwell worked in and wrote about in his novel Keep the Aspidistra Flying where one can avoid the cold on the cheap (as he would have it)

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last revised: 9-22-05 by Eric Brenner, Skyline College, San Bruno, CA