New Orleans and Mardi Gras
A student has to write a news story over the break on conditions in New Orleans and, in particular, their relationship to Mardi Gras.
In addition to assurance about off-campus access to databases, I suggested the following starting points:
From what I can see in LexisNexis Academic and in Academic OneFile, there is a lot of material in newspapers and magazines on conditions in New Orleans.
LexisNexis Academic
Step One: "General News"
Step Two: "Major Papers"
Step Three: "new orleans" [first line]
crime OR neighborhood OR transportation [second line; you can try other terms, too]
katrina [third line]
Step Four: [You may or may not choose to limit this search to "Previous Month" because of the large number of articles.]
When I did this search (6 months), I got 758 articles, almost all of which will be provided in full-text form. Note: The Times-Picayune will be heavily represented.
Academic OneFile
first line: "new orleans"
second line: katrina
third line: neighborhood* OR crime OR transportation OR roads [You can try other terms, too.]
Important note: When viewing results, be sure to click on the "Magazines" and "News" tabs above the list, as well as the default "Academic Journals" list. In general, Academic OneFile probably will be less useful than LexisNexis for this research.