• Alt-PressWatch - UW/CCC restricted - Full-text articles from newspapers and journals of the independent press.
• Communication Abstracts - UW/CCC restricted -Scholarly articles on Media Studies and Communication topics.
• Ethnic Newswatch - UW/CCC restricted - Full-text articles from newspapers and journals of multicultural and ethnic American press.
• National Newspapers - UW/CCC restricted - Full-text articles from major U.S. newspapers, as well as the international and multicultural press.

Finding Books

• UW Libraries Catalog - For more in-depth coverage or background information, search the UW Libraries Catalog for books and media on your topic of interest.

Related Research Guides
Guides to research resources on related topics, created by UWB/CCC Librarians:

• UW Libraries Newspaper Collection - the UW Libraries has a world-class collection of local, national, and international news and resources
• Communications and Media Studies
• Ethnic Studies
• Gender Studies

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Community media and newspapers provide a rich source of information and personal narratives. Local media are produced from perspectives that are unique to geographic region, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, time, place, and political and social context.

The newspapers found in the Library's Community Newspaper Collection, or the media sources linked from the Community Media website, can be used as:

• Primary source - Newspaper articles are significant examples of primary sources, meaning they come from a specific time, group, or geographical location. Primary sources can give research a new perspective, or can be the subject of research itself.
• Popular source - Media sources can provide a popular or independent perspective on a research topic or an issue debated in the scholarly literature. Popular sources can also be a rich subject of research on its own.

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