One way we can find out about what is currently going on throughout the world is by reading the news.

News articles are published in newspapers, in magazines, and on websites. Many printed and online news articles are made available through library databases so that library users will be able to access them for research purposes now and in the future. (See example, right).

However, news is a specific form of information that is different than many of the other types of information you can find in the library and in its electronic databases. In contrast to scholarly articles, for example, news is:

• written by journalists, not scholars
• usually about recent events

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The same Washington Post article can be found on the newspaper's website (above), in a library database (below), and in the printed newspaper (not shown).