5. searching women's issues in the popular media
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Your Article Review Assessment wants you to consider how research is reported in the news.
Here are some tips for finding newspaper articles.
Visit our Newspapers and News Sources subject guide for links to news sources.
The most comprehensive is:
University Library library.uwa.edu.au
Searching the Popular Media
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You can search Factiva using:
Key words
+ Boolean operators
Or types of News Sources and Specific Subjects
And limit to a specific region or industry if you wish
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Industry or Subject Limits may be the most helpful
This search retrieved just under 5,000 results so we will need to use our limits
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Gather as many
details as you can
about the original report
Searching for the Report
Use as many details as you can to search
for the original report in
OneSearch or Google or
Scopus etc..
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WestLaw is another great popular press search tool. By specifying content to search you can limit to major newspapers only.
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You can then build your search
and have it applied just to
the sources you have chosen
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To reduce the number of results and make them more specific the word “research” was added as term to “search within the results”.
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Think creatively to identify the origins of the newspaper article to the report