Stop by the library (Bldg. 5, 2nd floor) in person, or contact us via email skylibrary@smccd.edu or on the phone(650-738-4311). Don't be shy; we're here to help you and no question is too basic to ask.
Features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites.
860 full-text newspapers, providing more than 35 million full-text articles. In addition, the database features more than 857,000 television and radio news transcripts.
Access World News provides full-text information and perspectives from U.S. and international news sources, each with its own distinctive focus offering diverse viewpoints on local, regional and world issues.
NYTimes.com covers a variety of topics with unsurpassed quality and depth through breaking news articles, blogs, videos and interactive features. Your access to NYTimes.com is available from any location, on or off campus.
Recognize that even typically reliable sources, whether mainstream or alternative, corporate or nonprofit, rely on particular media frames to report stories and select stories based on different notions of newsworthiness.
Use Library Databases on current events and news. Skyline College Library provides full, complimentary access to NYTimes.com and New York Times mobile apps to Skyline College students, faculty, and staff. Here are instructions on how to access NYTimes.com.
What to avoid:
“Fake, false, regularly misleading sites” which rely on “outrage” using distorted headlines and decontextualized or dubious information in order to generate likes, shares, and profits” (examples: Politicalo, AmericanNews.com)
Purposefully fake satire/comedy sites that can offer critical commentary on politics and society, but have the potential to be shared as actual/literal news (examples: Christwire.org, TheOnion.com)
