NewsBank provides full text of articles from hundreds of newspapers throughout the United States, as well as domestic and foreign wire services and the Congressional Record. It does not index obituaries or classified ads. A list of newspaper titles indexed by NewsBank can be found in the blue notebook on the periodical searching table. This may or may not be productive, depending on your topic. If you find that your search produces a large number of articles that only briefly mention your topic, try searching the lead.
Lead searches the first paragraph of the article.
If your key word is mentioned here, the article is likely to be pertinent to your topic. Index terms are chosen by the database authors as subject headings to describe articles. These terms may or may not match the key words you use to describe your topic. A good strategy is to find an article that matches your topic well, note the index terms that describe it, and do another search, using those terms. These fields are less frequently used in a general search.