ProQuest   
Quick Tips

Access to ProQuest databases including ProQuest Research Library, ABI/INFORM Global, ProQuest Historical
Newspapers, Alt-Press Watch, Ethnic Newswatch and GenderWatch.

Sample Search: Obama and welfare

Note tabs to restrict results to Scholarly Journals or Newspapers.

Note checkboxes to select items and [Export] them to RefWorks

Note the [full-text] and [MGetIt] links to full-text when available

LexisNexis Academic-- Newspapers 
  Quick Guide | Guide to search newspapers

Provides full-text access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information, including hundreds of
U.S. and foreign newspapers, legal and business publications, wire services, broadcast media transcripts, and
trade/news magazines.

Sample Search: Obama and welfare

Note checkboxes to select items and Bibliography Icon on far right to export them to RefWorks

Click on title for full-text

Note suggestions at the end of each full-text article for refining your search strategy, e.g.::

Mirlyn  (catalog)
  Connect | Quick Tips

Sample Search: Obama, Barack

Note checkboxes to select items and to add to [My Shelf]

 

Option 1: “Print/Export/Mail” this record; Change “Record Format” to RefWorks; “Go”; Save as
text file to Desktop; In RefWorks, go to "References" then "Import": Import file should be University
of Michigan University Library; Database should be Mirlyn Library Catalog; "Browse" for saved text
file on Desktop. Click on "Import".

Option 2: Search directly from within RefWorks, go to"Search" then "Online Catalog or Database";
select University of Michigan; then search and import within RefWorks. For more detail, see
http://www.lib.umich.edu/knc/howto/citation/refworks/index.html

Family and Society Studies Worldwide
Access via web:  EBSCO
1970-   (Updated monthly)
A "comprehensive, systematic, and non-evaluative resource of research, policy, and practice literature
in the fields of Family Science, Human Ecology, Human Development and Social Welfare. FSSW provides
over 719,600 abstracts and bibliographic records drawn from over two thousand professional journals,
books, popular literature, conference papers, government reports, and other sources."
(The database most international in scope)

Sample Search: John McCain

Note on right side [Add] to folder icon to select items

Click on [Folder] to export selected results to RefWorks

Predictably, there are fewer results for current events in journal databases than there are in newspaper databases

FirstSearch
Coverage varies for each database.
There are multiple databases accessible through FirstSearch. Modify your search by selecting Social
Sciences, Public Affairs & Law, or News and Current Events in the "In:" box just below the search box.

Sample Search: 2008 and Presidential Election

Results within Social Sciences Abstracts are below.

Note checkboxes and Export button to import selections to RefWorks

PAIS International (Public Affairs Information Service) 
Access via web: CSA Illumina
1972-    (Updated monthly)
Contains references to over 553,300 journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories,
research and conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, internet material, etc.
concerning public affairs worldwide. The database can be searched by broad subject headings, such as culture
and religion, human rights and social conditions and policy or more specifc subtopics, like social policy, poverty
and homelessness and marrige and family life.

National Journal

Weekly periodical on government agencies; includes major legislative issues

Social Work Speaks [Reference HV 95 .N26 2003] for the "profession's most systematic approach to policy development"