The Boston Globe is available through the Factiva Access newspaper database.
Factiva's market tends to be focused more on the private center (businesses) than education and this influences the ease of use and settings. Note: The default setting is to pull news from the last 3 months only.
Obtain articles written by Sebastian Smee.
Search Strategy #1: set of 500+ articles
Instructions:
- Click on Factiva Access. (Available in the database listing.)
- Type the following in the search box: by=sebastian smee
- by (byline) is used to search the author field in Factiva
- At Date Range, under the search box, select "In the last 5 years".
- Click Search again.
- Scroll down the left hand menu, and under Sources, click on The Boston Globe. Note: He has also been writing for the Washington Post.
Search Strategy #2: set of 600+ articles
- Click on Factiva Access. (Available in the database listing.)
- Search for an article by him with his name. e.g. "the art of scandal" smee
- Click on the article title.
- Click on Sebastian Smee (hyperlinked name) underneath the article title.
- At the pop-up window, click "See articles by this author".
- Now there is a list of 1000+ articles since it defaults to all dates.
- You can change the date limit in the drop-down menu to "In the last 5 years".
- Using the left hand limiters, you can limit to a specific publication e.g. The Boston Globe.
PDFs of Articles Available
- You can save multiple articles from the search results page into a single PDF. A page of articles in the search results can be saved as a single PDF document (which may or may not be useful).
- Select desired articles.
- Click the PDF download icon. Select > Headline, Article, and TOC.
- You can also select a single article and save the content into a single PDF.
