How to Find Interviews Guide

Expanded Academic Index (some full-text) - After you click on the link at left, you will go to a list of databases at Gale. Scroll down and click on Expanded Academic. To find interviews, put the name of the person interviewed in quotation marks, like this "Toni Morrison". Then hit the space bar and type Interview. This database will link some articles that are not interviews, but, it is worth while to give Expanded Academic a try.

Factiva - (full-text) Factiva is a good place to locate full-text interviews! On the first screen of Factiva, ignore everything before the words Free Text, which will be on the light grey left side bar. Type your search terms in the text box by the words Free Text.

Important: The default search on Factiva is a phrase search. If you want to find interviews, you must type the name of the person who was interviewed and then the word "and." (Not in quotes!) Below the Free Text box you will see an option marked Dates. Set this pull-down menu to All Dates.

Then look below the Free Text box to see the options marked "Select Sources and Factiva Intelligent Indexing TM." One of the options says "Subject" with a plus mark beside it on the left. Click on the plus mark. The option will open. One of the choices will be "Content Types." Click the plus sign to the left of the words "Content Types." Scroll down to see the word "Interview." Click on the small blue triangle to the right of the word "Interview." When you do this, a bit of code will be added to your search string in the free text box..

Click on Run Search. Select an item from your list of search results. To return to your list of search results DO NOT CLICK THE BACK BUTTON. Instead, look on the upper right side of the screen. Just above the top, right corner of your article you will see the words Return to Headlines in blue. Click there to return to your list of search results. (On an Apple computer, Return to Headlines may be located on the upper left.)

LRC: Literature Resource Center (full-text) Warning: There are not many interviews on the LRC. It is not likely you will find one with a specific person (like Stephen King, for example), but you can find interviews by simply typing one letter in to the search box. Choose Advanced, which will take you to the Advanced search. Type the FIRST LETTER of your author's last name in the first search box. Then look below these search boxes to find the words "Limit the current search (optional)." In Document Type, scroll down until you see Interview. Select Interview and click the green Search button.

Writers who have been published for the first time in the past three years may not be in this database.

Lexis-Nexis (full-text) - Allows you to search using natural language or Boolean techniques, which they call "Terms and Connectors." Notice that you can Select Source on the pull down menu below the search box. There you can search transcripts, law reviews and medical journals, to name but a few catagories of publications.

Lexis-Nexis People (full-text) - Remember that Lexis-Nexis sources are mainly newspapers, so only fairly famous people will be found in this database. Be sure to Select Source in the pull down menu - there are MANY sources of biographical material in this database and you may need to tailor your search to a source that matchs your person's job or nationality.

Wilson Web (some full-text) - The Advanced Search screen automatically loads. Type the name of the person who was interviewed in the first search box. For example: toni morrison. In the second search box type the word Interview. The blue Start button is on the right.

Google Search (some full-text) Although the Librarians at Sweet Briar College do not normally encourage students to use the free web, this is one instance where there are very good free interviews available in online magazines like Salon, Slate and others. On the Google search screen simply type the name of the person who was interviewed in quotations marks, and then add the word interview. A good search will look like this: "toni morrison" interview

Indexes:

ArticleFirst @ FirstSearch (citation only) - Enter the name of the person who was interviewed in the first "Search For" box. In the second one, type the word: interview. ArticleFirst does not offer any full-text articles, but you can often locate your article by using Journal Finder. If you cannot locate your article via Journal Finder, then you will need to request an Interlibrary Loan.

MLA Bibliography (citation only) In the search box, type the name of the person interviewed in quotation marks, and then the word: interview. For example: "toni morrison" interview. Be sure the radio button below the search box is set to: author as subject. Then click the Search button. MLA Bibliography does not provide any full-text articles, but you can often locate your article by using Journal Finder. If you cannot locate your article via Journal Finder, then you will need to request an Interlibrary Loan.