The best place to start news research will often be Lexis and Westlaw. Lexis Advance in particular has an extensive collection of newspapers and provides many advanced search features. As a BYU Law student, you have access to free personal accounts on New York Times and Washington Post online.

New York Times Instructions: All BYU Law students, faculty, and staff can create a personal account for access. To create your account, go to nytimes.com, click the "LOG IN" button. Enter your law school email address. Click "Forgot Password" and create a new password.

Washington Post Instructions: Law students and faculty can sign up for an individual account at https://www.washingtonpost.com/subscribe/signup with their law school email address. Verify the account by clicking the link in the email sent by The Washington Post. Then return to The Washington Post website, click on your username in the upper-right corner, click Account Settings, then My Subscriptions. Click the link to join the BYU Law School group account. Trouble? Make sure you verified your account using the email link and try logging out and logging back in. 

For help with either account, contact Iantha Haight.

News article searches can return massive numbers of results, especially in today's databases that contain tens of millions of full-text news articles. Keeping that in mind, here are some suggestions:

• Select the narrowest subset of newspapers possible. For example, if you only want articles from large U.S. newspapers, do not use a database with a global focus. Some databases let you select individual newspapers and combinations of newspapers to search.
• Use proximity searches (e.g., "(coronovirus or COVID-19) /10 treatment"). I like Lexis and Westlaw for this reason.
• In Lexis, use the advanced search fields of Headline or Byline to search for articles on a defined topic.
• In Westlaw, use the advanced search fields of Title, Lead Paragraph or Summary.

For more specialized news databases available at BYU, view this News Sources Research Guide from the Lee Library, or contact Iantha Haight.

Video tutorials are forthcoming. 

Until then, if you need help, contact Iantha Haight.