Alt-Press Watch / Ethnic Newswatch
Databases Tutorial

The Alt-Press Watch (APW) Diversity Database can be located under the Reference Databases heading “Magazines & Newspapers” as well as the alphabetic entry in the list of all databases.

The general ProQuest search interface screen. Notice that you must select the specific database to limit your search results to material, in this case, Alt-Press Watch:

A sample basic search for the term “hispanic” in Alt-Press Watch (APW), the first four of 7,220 documents:

Adding the truncation symbol * to search on Hispanic* (searches Hispanic, Hispanics, etc) brings up 39 more articles, but still nothing newer than the first entry on the screen above. Since the Hispanic culture is of interest for this search:

The search on Hispanic Americans AND Culture brings up 1080 documents, the newest dated April 11, 2006:

Ethnic NewsWatch (ENW), another ProQuest Diversity Database, is accessed in the same way as Alt-Press Watch:

Trying the same search typing in Hispanic Americans AND culture in the Basic searchbox:

Using the ENW suggested topic Culture AND Hispanic Americans:

All of the features noted in the Alt-Press NewsWatch section also apply to the Ethnic NewsWatch database.