Chapter 7: Finding Articles in Periodical Indexes

"Patriot Act" AND rights AND protect* AND privacy

Popular Magazine Source:

Thomas, R. Eddlem. "The "SECRET" Patriot Act." The New American Jul 18 2011: 29-32. ProQuest Research Library. Web. 20 Feb. 2013.

I chose this article because it references possible databases available to certain government agencies that keep track of private information on our nation’s citizens. The New American is a biweekly magazine that considers itself the essential new source for “freedom-loving Americans.”

Research Article from a Scholarly Journal:

Breinholt, Jeff. "How about a Little Perspective: The USA Patriot Act and the Uses and Abuses of History." Texas Review of Law & Politics 9.1 (2004): 17-61. ProQuest Research Library. Web. 22 Feb. 2013.

I chose this scholarly reference because it presents a hypothesis, though a little broad. It present information in an unbiased way and is broken into logical sections to help you draw your own opinion based on facts.

Article from a Newspaper:

Anthony, Asadullah S. "Exploitation of the Patriot Act: 'the Devil's on the Line,' all the Time Now." Sentinel: 2. 2007. Western Newsstand. Web. 22 Feb. 2013 .

I chose this newspaper article because it is very much against the Patriot Act in its current form. He wants a “checks and balances” system put into place to regulate the government agencies that have access to private the information about U.S. citizens.

This assignment was a little more time consuming than some of the others, but as I like a challenge I still enjoyed it. That being said, I’m not 100% sure that each section of this post is done right, but I did my best. I chose to add “NOT library” to the end of my search results because there were many articles focused on that aspect of the Patriot Act and I am didn’t want to go in that direction. I have been reading The New American for several years so I was drawn to it as a possible resource. I removed the “NOT library” Boolean search phrase for the Scholarly Journal. I thought that including “NOT library” would stop me from seeing scholarly references that included the terms I was more closely looking for. I didn’t have to add “NOT library” back into my search phrase for my newspaper article. There were lots of relevant and current newspaper articles that peaked my interest while matching my key words.