Introduction to Sustainability
Course Number: ES296
Subject: Geography and Environmental Studies
Suggested sources for the Media Scan Assignment
Option 1: Searching current news source aggregators
- Go to News Articles
- (Note: from the Library homepage, the path is Resources > More Research Materials > News Articles)
- Expand the section Current News Sources
- Select Canadian News @ ProQuest
- Run searches as suggested in class
Option 2: Searching individual local lewspapers
- As in search above, start at News Articles page
- Expand the section on Local Newspapers
- You'll see a number of different options for local papers. You'll likely want to focus on:
- Waterloo Region Record
- Waterloo Chronicle
- TIP: Use the "Anywhere" field to search in the ProQuest Historical Newspapers versions; the default NOFT search won't work
- The Observer is an independent newspaper published out of Elmira that covers events in Wellesley township.
- The Library does not have a subscription
- Some articles are open access but many are not
Suggested Geographical Terms (class examples)
Wellesley
AND
Town OR Township OR Village
Other nearby communities:
Bamberg OR Crosshill OR Linwood OR St. Clements OR Hawkesville OR Heidelberg OR Wallenstein
Other nearby municipalities:
Woolwich OR Wilmot OR North Dumfries
"Region of Waterloo" OR "Regional Municipality of Waterloo"
For additional tips on finding scholarly, peer-reviewed materials, see the Library research for GES students tutorials page