Locating News Resources 8 Mar 2016
Outline Mastering E-newspapers –Factiva –WiseNews –SCMP Archive –ProQuest Historical Newspapers: South China Morning Post –Hong Kong Education News Clippings Other Newspapers Resources 2
3 Back issues of newspapers in hard copies (4/F): Print copies of HK newspapers are kept in the Library for the latest 2 months Microform format (3/F): Ming Pao Daily News 明報 (1959+) Sing Tao Daily 星島日報 (1938+) South China Morning Post 南華早報 (1984+) The Standard 英文虎報 (2002+) News clippings (Bound Serials, 2/F): 香港報章剪報目錄 ( ) 香港報章剪報 ( ) Introduction: Newspapers in the Library
Factiva: How to Access 1.HKIEd Library Homepage > E-Tools > E-Newspapers > OR 2.E-Resources > Browse E-Resources by Subject > News 4
Basic Search Commands: Words in a Specific field Search by source title: use sn (source name) to locate articles with the words journal of youth and adolescence in the source title field. Other useful commands: hd (headline), by (author), wc (word count), etc. 5
Free Text Search, e.g. “health care reform” + latest 3 months + Greater China Click the arrow to expand the menu from each category Enter your search term(s) in Free Text Search box 6
Refine your search 7
Listen to the article or have it translated into another language , print or save the article 8
Browse other related articles 9
Online help provided by Factiva 10
How to Access to WiseNews 1.HKIEd Library Homepage > E-Tools > E-Newspaers > WiseNews OR 2.Quicklinks > WiseNews / WiseSearch 11
Browsing News About HKIEd Default mode allows you to browse HKIEd news Select a period (2000-) Sorting options: relevancy, date, source Click the headline to view the full text Enter the Search interface 12
Browsing News on Other Topics
Search via WiseSearch Type search term(s) into the keyword box (Support Boolean search) Specify source(s) or date range to be searched. The date range can be set up to 5 years Select the Databases for searching: a. WiseSearch - Covers the key newspapers and publications from leading Hong Kong newspapers publishers b. WiseSearch Pro - Covers information sources overseas, including China, Macau, Taiwan etc. 14
Search Tips 15
Search Result Page Narrow down the search by input of additional terms Choose Edit Search to change search criteria To print, download or a batch of articles. A maximum of 300 records can be exported per action. 16
Export: Max 300 documents per download / / print Download format: RTF, HTML, Text, PDF 17
Modify the Search in a Record Review other articles which appeared on the same page with this article Directly highlight another term from the article and click this button to initiate another search 18
10-year news archive Analysis of results in different sections & keywords are provided SCMP Archive 19
Example: search for electronic road pricing, limit to last year 20
Share the Article on Social Media 21
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: South China Morning Post With searchable, full text coverage from South China Morning Post’s origin in 1903 up to and including 1995, users will be able to search the entirety of the newspaper including advertisements, editorials, cartoons, and photographs that illuminate history as much as the news articles. 22
Find “ProQuest Historical Newspapers: South China Morning Post” by Browsing “P" (or browse by “News” subject; or search directly) How to Access 23
View the publications list 24
E.g. Search “mother tongue education” (Use quotation marks to search for exact phrases) 25
Detailed record with download option 26
27 Browse other articles on this issue 27
28 Advanced Search, e.g. search editorial of a specific date 28
29 You can also , Print, Save, Export to RefWorks, etc. 29
Hong Kong Education News Clippings 1.Year Coverage: Publications: Commercial Daily, Hong Kong Economic Times, Oriental Daily News, etc. 3.Format of the original full text: PDF format 30
How to Access and Search 1.HKIEd Library Homepage > E-Tools > E-Newspaers 2.Select “Hong Kong Education News Clippings”
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Other E-newspapers Websites 1.HKIEd Library Homepage > E-Tools > E-Newspaers 2.URLs are sorted by alphabet and country 33
Multimedia Information System of Hong Kong Public Libraries MMIS provides a rich collection of digitized format of materials on microfilms, clippings, maps, posters, house programmes etc. The Old Hong Kong Newspapers Collection is a selective collection of major old Hong Kong Newspapers published from early Hong Kong to nowadays, aiming at preserving historical news reporting of Hong Kong for reference and research. 34
Coverage of the Old HK Newspapers 35
View all items by title 36
Example : search with keywords 母語教學 37
Share the Article on Social Media 38
Browse the news on this day in history MMIS Home Page 39
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