Using News databases

Current news resourcesHistoric news resources

James BissetAcademic Liaison Librarian (Research Support)

Session outline- Key resources for current

news- Other resources for- Historic news resources- Freely available news

resources

Focus of resources available

Scale• Local• National• International

Language• English• Non-

English

Currency• Recent• Historic

Part 1 News Resources(Current News)

Key resources

Additional resources

- Times Literary Supplement [1902 - ]

- Times Higher Education Supplement [1995- ]

- The Economist [1843- ]

- JISC Mediahub [ ITN/Reuters archives 1900 - 2007 ]

- News on screen [1910- 1983]

- Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty

Hands-on- Explore the three main news

databases yourself: Infotrac, Nexis UK and Factiva

- Explore some of the other available sources at:

http://www.dur.ac.uk/library/resources/online/newspapers

Part 2

Historic News

Resources

Key Resources• Times Digital Archive 1785-2006

• British Newspapers 1600-1900

• Eighteenth century journals 1685-1815

•EEBO and ECCO for pamphlets

•19th Century British Pamphlets (JSTOR)

•Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003

•Historic Australian newspapers 1803-1954

Historic News on Microform

• Some national and local, e.g. - Sunderland & Durham County Herald 1839-67

• International, e.g. - Kabul Times 1969-79, - Milliyet (Istanbul) 1970-86, - Pravda 1921-1953, - Jerusalem Post 1950-2007

Part 3 Free news

sources

Free news resources

• Individual newspaper titles and news sources

• Current news/what is available on public sites

• Advanced search engine options e.g. Google News

• News-specific search engines – Silobreaker (News search)– NewsNow (News International content blocked)

• Mobile/Tablet apps, eg Simmly

Free news resources

• Current news databases–Kidon Media link

• Higher Education–ResearchProfessional–Funding Councils’ web sites

Hands-on- Explore some of the historic

newspaper resources yourself

- Explore the advanced search options on search engines

- Download an app to your mobile- Explore some of the free news

resources.

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