Welcome to Waubonsee Community College Library’s Current Events and News Library Research Guide, your central resource for staying informed on trending topics shaping both our local community and the wider world. This guide is designed to connect you with reliable, up-to-date information through carefully curated tools and services. Start by exploring the Newspaper Databases, which provides access to Waubonsee’s subscriptions to academic news databases, journals, and reputable local and global media outlets. For on-the-go updates, the News on the Go recommends trusted apps to help you track breaking stories and personalize news alerts based on your interests.
Need assistance? Waubonsee’s librarians are ready to help—use the Live Chat service (accessible above the Contact Us box) for guidance navigating resources, refining research strategies, or answering questions about current events. At Waubonsee Community College Library, we’re committed to empowering your curiosity with the tools and support you need to engage critically with the world. Stay informed, stay curious, and let us help you uncover the stories that matter.
Both Google and Bing have versions of their regular search engines designed for news search. Only news organizations are searched, rather than the entire web, and the results prioritize the most current information.
Google News can create alerts which update you when new articles come out on the topic you searched. At the bottom of your Google News search results, there will be a prompt to create an alert. Click the button to begin.
Google News will then bring you to a new page that creates a preview of the alert. You can also open a list of options for the alert, including how often you receive one, what types of sources should be included, language, region, the quality of sources, and whether they should be delivered in an email or through an feed that can be loaded into many news apps. When you have selected your options, click "Create Alert".
Bing also allows users to create a feed to keep track of updates. There is a "Subscribe by RSS" link to the right of Bing News results.
Aggregators that pull in news from many sources based around your interests.
Select publications and see all of their updates.
Not sure which result to use as a source? Try the TRAAP Test:
Timeliness: Is the information new? What might have changed since this source was published?
Relevance: Is this source on your topic? Is only a section of it on your topic? Does it only cover some parts of your topic?
Authority: Why should you trust that this author knows what she or he is talking about?
Accuracy: How did the author come up with the information in this source?
Purpose: Why did this author create this source? What is his or her perspective?
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