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Searching NewsBank Access World News Research Collection

Tutorial of how to find news articles in NewsBank's Access World News Research Collection.

 

How to View an Item

 

Viewing an article

 Viewing an Article  

 

To view an article, click the hyperlinked title of the article. This will open to the full text of the article. 

Solar energy reshaping earth's future article.

 

 

Features & Accessibility 

 

Access World News has several features which allow for a better reading experience. 

 

 

Text Size

 

You can make the text size larger by clicking the A icon at the top of the article. Clicking it once makes the text larger and clicking it again will return it to its original size. 

Solar energy reshaping earth's future article with a red circle above the title that is highlighting an icon that is a small A with a larger A beside it.

 

 

Text to Speech 

 

To listen to an article, you can select the play button beside the area that reads Read News Document. 

Solar energy resshaping earth's future - a green triangle icon is circled in red.

 

You can change the settings by selecting the three horizontal lines beside Read News Document to open a drop-down menu. From there, select Settings. 

Drop down menu with settings highlighted with a red rectangle.

 

You can change text highlighting, the color of the highlight (if turned on), the reading speed, text size, and text settings. 

Settings for text to speech - a red arrow points to a stop watch image and text reads Reading Speed, a green box circles an A- and an A+ with an arrow pointing to it and text that reads Text Size, a purple arrow points to an image with an Aa and a gear above it that reads Text Settings above it.

 

 

Page Highlighting

 

You can also create a highlight to help you read the article by selecting Page Mask from the drop-down list. 

Drop down menu with Page mask highlighted with a red rectangle.

 

Solar energy reshaping earth's future where entire article is a dark gray but there is a white highlighted line horizontally through the page.

PDF View

Viewing a PDF

 

Some articles will only be available as a PDF. The PDF will open immediately upon clicking on the title of the article. 

Opinion article titled Dial it back: Time to pocket the phone and watch the show.

 

A plus (+) icon at the top of the PDF will make it larger, while the minus icon (-) will shrink it. To see the whole article on the page, you can click the icon of four arrows pointing in different directions. 

The top of an article within newsbank access world news. An icon of a plus sign, a minus sign, four arrows pointing different directions, and a question mark are highlighted in a red rectangle.