FINDING ARTICLES FROM THE

ONLINE VERSIONS OF THE LOCAL NEWSPAPERS

(Advertiser, Star-Bulletin, or Honolulu Weekly)

Here are the URLs for the online versions of the three main local newspapers:

Honolulu Advertiser: http://honoluluadvertiser.com/

Star-Bulletin: http://starbulletin.com/

Honolulu Weekly: http://www.honoluluweekly.com/

TO SEARCH FOR A TOPIC IN THE BACK ISSUES OF THE NEWSPAPERS:

The Honolulu Advertiser and the Star-Bulletin have search boxes on their Web sites, in the column on the left. HOWEVER, these search boxes do not work very well. And the Honolulu Weekly has no search feature. BUT there is a better way to search, which lets you search in all three papers:

Go to the Google search engine (http://google.com/) and click on Advanced Search.

In the Google Advanced Search screen you can restrict your search to one domain, so down in the Domain section, type one of the following:

honoluluadvertiser.com starbulletin.com honoluluweekly.com.

Then enter your search term/s at the top. Your search will only be within the newspaper you have specified in the Domain section.

EMAILING OR PRINTING THE ARTICLES YOU FIND:

The more recent (but not older) articles from both the Advertiser and the Star-Bulletin have options to email articles or to put articles in printer-friendly format.

Honolulu Advertiser: Print and email options will appear in the upper-right corner of the articles. (These options were added in April 2001, so earlier articles won't have them.)

Star Bulletin: Print and email options will appear in the Tools section at the bottom of the column on the right side of the article. (These options were added in July 2002, so earlier articles won't have them.)

IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A PARTICULAR DAY'S PAPER:

The Honolulu Advertiser, the Star-Bulletin, and the Honolulu Weekly all keep back issues on their Web sites. (The Weekly doesn't keep full back issues, but they have a section where they keep their cover stories from recent past issues.)

How far back do they go? The Honolulu Advertiser keeps only two months of back issues available for free, whereas the Star-Bulletin keeps back issues all the way back to 1996. (When searching for Advertiser articles through Google, though, you can get around the two-month backfile limit on the Advertiser's own Web site.)

If you know the date that a particular article appeared in one of the papers, you can go into the Back Issues section and bring up the paper for that particular date, and then look for the article. On the home pages for the Advertiser and the Star-Bulletin, look for the "Back Issues" link.
The Honolulu Weekly has a "Recent Cover Stories" section.

Note: Not ALL the articles in the print papers are in the online versions—but almost all locally written stories are, and some mainland or international newswire stories are.

Marcia Kemble, Library

Mid-Pacific Institute

rev.4/18/08