Princeton University Library 2003 Information Village Fair
Navigating News Sources: Finding News and General Articles Bobray Bordelon Bordelon@princeton.edu
Don’t know where to start? Feeling overwhelmed? Don’t know where to start?
So many places to turn for news and general interest titles…..
Web Factiva Lexis Nexis Proquest Historical Newspapers Paper Film A few of the major ones….. Web Factiva Lexis Nexis Proquest Historical Newspapers Paper Film
More major ones….. Proquest Direct Academic Search Premier Reader’s Guide Periodical Contents Index
Introducing PULinks/SFX http://sfx.princeton.edu:9003/citation/sfx_pul?t=journal
Library Homepage http://libweb.princeton.edu/
News Sources World Wide Web Primarily Current only Often requires registration Archives for fee if available For very small papers, may be only choice NewspaperLinks
News Sources Factiva/Dow Jones Interactive Wall Street Journal (all editions) Barrons Reuters/Dow Jones wire services Strong on local/regional papers Limited to 3 simultaneous users
News Sources Lexis Nexis Academic Proquest Historical Newspapers New York Times Financial Times Unlimited Users Proquest Historical Newspapers Paper/Film Subscriptions
News Sources Proquest Historical Newspapers New York Times (1851-1999) Washington Post (1877-1987) Wall St. Journal (1889-1985)
News Sources Paper/Film Subscriptions Check Main Catalog Microfilm of many major papers Foreign Film Holdings USA Holdings
General Periodical Sources Proquest Direct Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) Reader’s Guide Periodical Contents Index
General Periodical Sources Proquest Direct 1971+ Some back further since includes Historical Newspapers and select journals Easy to Use! Mix of Scholarly and popular PDF Images PULinks Linking
General Periodical Sources Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) 1975+ Easy to Use! Mix of scholarly and popular PDF Images PULinks Linking
Readers Guide/Readers Guide Retrospective 1890+ PULinks Linking Popular Magazines
Periodical Contents Index Late 18th Century to the latter part of the 20th Century PULinks Linking Covers early scholarly periodicals not included elsewhere No real subject indexing; Keywords from title plus very broad subjects