Modesto Bee

This Modesto Bee collection via Newsbank includes immediate access to a full, cover-to-cover image of every day's Bee from August 1, 2024 to the present.  It also includes the full-text of selected articles from as early as 1989.

Includes:

• The Modesto Bee - Today's Edition   (June 2024 - present)
  • Includes all content (cover to cover) for every day's e-edition of the Modesto Bee from August 2024 - present.
  • Guide: How to access and navigate the full image edition of the Modesto Bee (Today's Edition).
    • You can search to locate specific pages / sections with specific keywords using the search functions.
    • You cannot navigate by clicking in the image, but need to search that day's content to find the full article.
    • Exports image PDFs.  You will need to "OCR" (scan for text) using a program like Adobe to turn the image into text you can search and/or copy on your desktop..
• Modesto Bee 
  • Article text  (a selected number [about 15%] of articles published from 1989 - present)
  • Blogs (2006 - present)
  • Video Transcripts (text only, 2019-2022)
  • Video (video links only, 2022 - present)

Listing in OneSearch: 

OneSearch does not link to individual articles in the Bee, but only to the main database components (the main entries for blogs, articles, Today's Edition, videos).

The Modesto Bee is linked in Everything / Articles / Beyond Scopes - Example record.

The following tools are available when viewing a specific article (image or text).

Cite the page/article:

• Click the citation icon.
• Choose the desired style or tool. 
  • For example, APA style.
• Please note:
• The Newsbank citation tool does not include the author or article title for "Today's Edition" / images.
• If you use the citation tool, be sure to note the article title, and the author, and manually add them to your citation.

Downloading an article:

• Click the download icon.
• Choose full page or select clip.
• For "Today's Edition" / image database, this will export an image PDF of displayed article/page or selected clip.
• If you want your local PDF to recognize text (e.g. copy and paste text from the PDF), you will need to "OCR" (scan for text) using a program like Adobe to turn the image into computer-readable text.

Email

• Using the email function will only email a link to the article that only works on the Stan State campus.
• To email an image or article text, download / save the article first, and then use your personal email to send the PDF / text.

Linking

• You can use the link icon to create a link to your specific page/article.
• This link will only work on campus (campus computer, campus wifi, campus VPN).
• To access this link off campus, add the following to the start of the link:
  • https://login.lib.proxy.csustan.edu/login?url=
• Example:
  • Link copied using the Newsbank link function:
    • https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=NewsBank&req_dat= . . . /hlterms%3A
  • Link that works off-campus (requires you to login):
    • https://login.lib.proxy.csustan.edu/login?url=https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=NewsBank . . . /hlterms%3A

Platform: Newsbank

Electronic Resource Type: Newspaper full-text

• Modesto Bee - Today's Edition - images; searchable online; single pages downloadable as image PDFs
• Text - text only (no images)
• Blogs - text only (no images)
• Video transcripts - text only (no video)
• Video - links to video only (no text/transcripts)

Subscription source: CSU Stanislaus Library Subscription (America's News)

OneSearch Records: Books & More Search - Main Record /  Today's Edition / Text / Video Transcripts

OneSearch source: America's News title list (library catalog / Alma  IZ)

Date Coverage: 1989 - present (text), Aug 2024 - present (image / Today's Edition), 2019 - 2022 (video transcripts)

Number of Records: 613,000

• Image:100,000
• Text: 503,000
• Blog: 5,923
• Video Transcripts: 1,963
• Videos: 0 (all from South Carolina?)

Record Types:  Image-only PDFs, text, video transcripts, blog text, video links

Library Database URL: https://library.csustan.edu/modbee_newsbank

Library PURL: https://libpurl.csustan.edu/s/purl.php?876