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New York Times Historical (ProQuest)

New York Times Historical is a database for the The New York Times with full page and article images with searchable full text from the first issue in 1851. There is an embargo of approximately 4 years.

Access Online Databases.

Access

1. Go to Sullivan Family Library’s home page at http://www.chaminade.edu/library

2. Click on Search for, then Databases by Title.

3. Off campus access requires login with your Chaminade ID and password.

Search – Basic

NYT Historical Search Basic

1. At the Basic Search screen, enter your search term(s) in the box.

2. Refine Search:

DateRange
- On this date
- Before this date
- From
More Search Options:
- Look for terms in – search your term(s) within the citation and document text OR citation and abstract.
- Document type – from Birth notice to Weather (e.g. editorial)
- Author
- Sort Results by – Oldest, Most recent, or Most relevant.

3. Click Search.

Search – Advanced

1. Enter word or phrase.

2. To combine your search with additional search words:

Choose Boolean operator.
Add second word to the search field.
Select field to search from drop down menu.
Click on Add a row to add more words.

3. Use Search Options to focus your search:

Date range
Document Type
Author
Sort results by
Results per page

4. Click Search.

Search Techniques

Use	To search for	Example
AND	All words	theater AND Broadway to find theater and Broadway in every record
OR	Any of the words	Giants OR Mets to find Giants or Mets (or both) in every record
AND NOT	Finds articles with the first word but not the second	mafia AND NOT Capone
" "	Exact phrase. Two word queries are searched as exact phrase.	“Pearl Harbor” or Pearl Harbor to find Pearl Harbor as an exact phrase
*	Variant endings of a word (wildcard)	judg* to find judge, judges, judging
?	Replace a single letter	ne?t to find neat, nest, next
W/#	Words near each other in any order	alcohol W/3 drugs to find alcohol and drugs within 3 words of each other in any order
W/PARA	Words are within the same paragraph	Polio vaccine W/PARA Salk
W/DOC	All words appear within the document text	teenagers W/DOC gang
NOT W/#	Words appear but not within some number of words apart (either before or after)	"Duke of Windsor" NOT W/20 abdicat*
PRE/#	First word appears some number of words before the second word	gold PRE/5 standard