Beyond journals & books

Newspapers & news

sources

James Bisset james.bisset@durham.ac.uk

Academic Liaison Librarian (Research Support)

Session outline

- Key resources for current news

- Other resources

- 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

DemoNexis UK / Infotrac

Hands-on

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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

DemoBritish Newspapers

1600-1900 / Times

Digital Archive

Hands-on

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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

DemoJISC Mediahub /

NewsOnScreen

Hands-on

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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

– NewsNow (News search)

– IFLScience

• Mobile/Tablet apps, eg Simmly

Free news resources

• Current news databases

–http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/

• Higher Education

–ResearchProfessional

– Funding Councils’ web sites

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Measuring

Researcher

Development

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