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How to Search Access Wales & U.K. Newspapers

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Access Wales & U.K. Newspapers gives you the ability to search hundreds of news sources from Wales and the United Kingdom. With NewsBank’s intuitive interface, you can enter simple or complex searches, sort your results, and view and email the full text of any story.

In addition to a wealth of standard features, you can set up several powerful tools to suit your research needs. To use them, you must first create a Personal Account, which requires a secondary login available to you alone. However, you don’t need a Personal Account to simply search and retrieve results.

The features that become available when you set up and log in to your Personal Account include saved email lists, searches, and articles, as well as email alerts for topics of your choice, delivered automatically to your inbox every day.

Tutorial Overview

Starting from your home page, you’re one click away from a host of powerful search options.


You can search a specific newspaper...


You can search across a region...


You can search all newspapers from an entire country…


Or you can search all titles in Wales and the U.K. at once.

This tutorial details several display tools and effective search techniques available in Access Wales & U.K. Newspapers. It also offers tips to help you find what you are looking for quickly and easily.


You will learn how to: Select sources by Location, Source Type an

d from the Source List

Use the built-in connectors and Add/Remove rows on the search form

Research a topic or issue

View Results by Year/Month, Location, Source and Source Type

Browse a specific newspaper by date

Change results display and navigate through results

Set up an Email Alert

Create an Email Address List

Save a search

Save and send articles

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Select sources by Location, Source Type and from the Source List

For perspectives on topics, people, issues and events, use the source selection tabs and the map to expand or narrow your search:

• Narrow your search from all of Wales and the U.K. to specific countries or regions

• Click on the map to see a list of all sources from a specific country or region

• Choose specific sources by name from the Source List tab

• Use the Source Types tab to choose what kinds of sources to include in your search

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1. Search all sources across Wales and the U.K. or check the boxes for the specific countries you want to search.

2. Click the name of a country in the list or its image on the map to get a list of all available sources from that country.


3. In this example, we clicked on Wales on the map. Notice the switch to the Source List tab to display the list of all available sources from Wales.

4. Check the boxes for the specific sources you want to search or click on the title to choose a single source.


Tip: For the greatest possible number of search results, search all possible sources. You can easily narrow your displayed results after you run your search.

5. Here, we have clicked on the South Wales Echo/Wales on Sunday to select a single source.

6. To expand your search back up to all of Wales and the U.K., click on the Wales link in the breadcrumb trail.

Tip: A breadcrumb trail is a list of links that track where you are in the product. You can use the links to move back to prior locations.


7. You can also use the Source Types tab to choose the types of sources that you want to include in your search. Check or uncheck the boxes to include or exclude different types of sources.


Use the built-in connectors and Add/Remove rows on the search form

The flexible search form enables you to:

• Use the drop-down list of basic connectors and, or, not to connect your search terms

• Add up to five extra rows of search boxes to enter more search terms, field your terms separately and include special limiters such as date and word count

• Simplify the search form by removing rows of search boxes when you no longer need them


1. Your search form will typically have two rows of search boxes and one connector drop-down list.

2. Choose and, or, not from the connector drop-down list to connect your search terms.

3. Use the Add Row button to add extra rows to the search form for more complex search strategies.


Here is a sample search with two extra rows on the search form to allow for multiple search terms and specific limiters.

This search will find articles with either “swine flu” or H1N1 in the Headline field, appearing within the past 6 months and greater than 500 words in length.

When you are ready to simplify the search form again, use the Remove Row button to remove the extra rows.

Tip: You can sort your results by Newest First, Best Matches First or Oldest First either before or after you search.Click here to go

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Research a topic or issue

For example, you can research:

• Terrorism

• Mortgage lending

• Healthcare services

• Swine flu

• Education

• Assembly government

• Global warming

• Crime

• Football

• Plant closures

• School funding

• The European Union


In this example, we are searching all sources.

1. Type your search term(s) to describe an issue, event, etc. Here, we’ve used terrorism.

2. Choose a date range from the Date field drop-down menu. For example, the past 12 months.


In another example, we’ll run a search with fielded terms.

1. Type your first search term into the first text-edit box and choose the Headline field from the drop-down list.

2. Choose the Lead/First Paragraph field from the second drop-down list, and type your terms into the second text-edit box.

Tip: Use quotation marks around an exact phrase, as in “global warming.”Click here to go

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View Results by Year/Month, Location,

Source and Source Type Perform a basic search and then display your results according to:

• Year/Month• Location• Source• Source Type


1. To perform a broad search, type your search term(s) into the text-edit box(es). Here, we’re doing an All Text name search for Gordon adj2 Brown.

2. Click “Search” to get your results list.

Tip: Use the adj2 proximity connector to allow for a middle name or middle initial to ensure retrieval of all occurrences of your subject’s name.Click here to go

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If there are too many hits, you can quickly and easily narrow your search results without having to modify your search.

Use the View Results tools on the left side of your results list to see the results from a specific Year, Location, Source and Source Type.

1. Let’s refine our displayed results to articles published in 2008 only.


Your display automatically refreshes to show only those articles that were published in 2008.

2. Now, let’s further refine our display to view the results from September 2008.

Tip: Use the “View X More” links to see all available choices for each View Results category.Click here to go

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3. Let’s further narrow the displayed results to a specific country – Wales.

Your display changes automatically to reflect all of your “View Results” selections so far, in this case 2008 and September.


With only a few clicks, we have narrowed our results from more than 360,000 hits to a much more focused group of articles published during September of 2008 in Wales.

Again, your display will refresh to reflect your new selection, in this case Wales.


… or, use the drop-down list and the breadcrumb trail links to change the set of results that you are displaying and move back up through your complete results set.

You can continue to narrow your displayed results by Source if you wish…


Browse a specific newspaper by date

For example:

• You remember reading an article in your local paper about a failed rescue plan for the Llandybie Corus plant

• Your local paper is the South Wales Guardian

• You know that the article was published on the first of April, 2009


1. First, use the Locations and/or Source List tabs to select the newspaper you want to browse, the South Wales Guardian.

2. Type the date that you want into the Enter a Date box and click Go.

Tip: If the date that you want appears in the Recent Issues list, just click on it. Or, use the Jump to month drop-down to see a list of available dates for a specific month.

01-04-2009


3. Browse through the alphabetical list of headlines and click on the article that you want.

Tip: Browse features are available only if a single newspaper is selected.Click here to go

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4. Use the Previous, Next and Back to Issue links to move from article to article or to go back to the complete list of articles for the date you are browsing.


5. At the issue level, you can move to the Previous date or the Next date by clicking the appropriate links.

6. Use the Date list link to get a list of all available dates for the month you are currently displaying.

7. Or type any date that you wish to browse in the Enter a Date box and click Go.

Tip: Click the Wales link in the breadcrumb trail at the top of your display window to get back to the main map.Click here to go

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Change results display andnavigate through results

Learn how to:• Change your sort order after running a search

• Change the amount of information in your results display

• Control the number of hits per page

• Navigate through multi-page results lists

• Jump back and forth between full-text articles and your results list


Here we have run a byline search for author Hafina Clwyd.

You can re-sort your results without re-running your search. For example, click on “Oldest First” to see Hafina Clwyd’s earliest articles at the top of the list.


Your results list will redisplay automatically showing the oldest articles at the top of the list.


At the bottom of each page of results you will find tools to control your results display and navigate through the list.

1. Use the “Article Preview” drop-down to set your display to First Paragraph, Keyword-in-Context or Headlines Only.

2. Use the “Results per page” control to display 10, 25 or 50 articles per page in your results list.

3. Use the page navigation bar to jump to the Previous, Next or a specific numbered page within your results list.


To see the full text of an article, click on its headline.


Use the controls above the headline to move to the previous or next article in your results set, or to go back to the results list.


Set up an Email Alert

One of the most convenient features of an Access Wales & U.K. Newspapers Personal Account is Email Alerts. Through this feature, your designated search(es) will be automatically run every day, and the results will be delivered to you via email on a daily or weekly basis.

Email Alerts are flexible. You can set them up and forget about them — simply use the news as it is delivered to your inbox. You can also add to, modify or delete them to fit your needs.


1. To set up an Email Alert, first create and run your search.

In this example, we searched for articles containing the terms CWU, “Royal Mail,” and strike that are greater than 100 words in length.

2. After verifying that the search is producing the kind of results you need, simply click on the “Create Email Alert” link above the results list.


3. On the Email Alerts setup page, you can choose the frequency of the alert (multiple times per day, once a day, once a week) and enter the email address(es) to which the information should be sent.

4. Once you have completed the information on the setup page, just click on “Begin Alert.” Within the next 24 to 48 hours, your email alerts will commence.

Type email addresses here, or click on your

address lists to the right.


To run an Email Alert search manually, click on its respective link.

You can access your Email Alerts by clicking on the link in the upper-right portion of your display window.

Use the “Edit” link to make changes to your Alert. Or, click the “Delete” link to remove the Alert when you no longer need it. Click here to go

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Create an Email Address List

To make emailing articles and alerts even easier, a Personal Account enables you to create and maintain Email Address Lists for the people and groups to whom you regularly send information.

To set up an Email Address List, the email addresses only have to be entered once. You can then send articles to everyone on your list with a single click. Your Personal Account provides Email Address List editing to enable you to easily add, modify or remove addresses from your list(s).


1. Type a name for your new list.

2. Type the email addresses for the primary recipients.

3. Type email addresses for any additional recipients you want to include.

4. Click “Save Changes.”

To create an Email Address List, simply click on the “Email Lists” link in the upper-right portion of your display window at any time.


Email Address Lists may contain one or more names, and you can create as many lists as you want.

You can also edit or delete the lists, as needed.


Save a search

Access Wales & U.K. Newspapers’ Personal Accounts feature enables you to create simple or complex search strategies and save them to run quickly and easily whenever you need them.

When creating a search strategy, consider: Which terms you want to search for The sources you want to search The sort order


1. Here, we have created a search for education NEAR10 legislation NEAR10 funding.

For example, you may want to find articles on legislation that affects funding for education.

2. Once you have run your search and verified that it gives you well-targeted results, simply click on “Save this Search” above the results list.

Tip: NEAR[x] will find articles in which the search terms appear within x words of each other, in any order.Click here to go

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3. Your new search strategy will be added to your list of Saved Searches.

You can click on a link in your Saved Searches list to run a saved search whenever you need it.


Save and send articles

While viewing your search results, there are several special features that you can use to process the articles you find there:

You can save articles to named file folders You can send articles to people who need to read them


From the results list, you can save an article simply by checking the box to the left of the headline. The article will automatically be put in your [To be Filed] folder.


Or, while viewing the article, you can save it by checking the “Save this Article” box.

Tip: You can access your saved articles by clicking the “Saved Articles” link in the upper-right portion of your display window.

You can also email the article directly to any email address, including those from your Email Address Lists.


1. Within the “Saved Articles” folders, you can view an article by clicking on its headline.

2. You also can file articles to previously named folders...

4. Email an article or set of articles to anyone...

5. Print hard copies…

6. And export bibliographic information for your articles.

3. Delete articles from your folders when you no longer need them...


1. To file articles into your folders, first select the articles by checking the box to the left of the headline.

2. Then, click on the “File Selected Articles” tool in the toolbox, and check the box for the folder in which you want to file the articles.

3. Click the “Move Articles” button.

Tip: You can set up and name folders using the “Add Folder” button at the top of the folders list, or create them on the fly as you’re filing.Click here to go

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Access Wales & U.K. Newspapers

We hope this tutorial has helped you understand some of the techniques and strategies for successful research.

Remember to:• Select appropriate sources to search• Define your search terms• Use the View Results and sorting tools after you search to narrow

and focus your displayed results


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