LIB130 Locating News Resources LINGNAN UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Sept

 use key news databases (Wisenews, Factiva & LexisNexis) to search for news  identify the useful new resources in various formats (electronic, print & microform)  select the most appropriate resources to retrieve relevant news 2 By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

Outline 3  Library Subscribed Databases  Wisenews  HK Newspaper Clippings  China InfoBank  LexisNexis Academic  Factiva  Free Internet Resources  Government Press Release  China News  World News  Public Opinions Other Resources  Microfilm

How to access news databases in the Library website? 4

News Databases 5

Wisenews 6  Special Topics / General Topics / Category News (HK)  Select news of a specific date range  Select news of a specific publication or publication group  Sort by news headlines  , Print, Download and Save to My Temp Folder functions

WiseSearch – Wisers Information Portal 7  A one-stop news portal  Refine search criteria through search panel  Wise Search Pro

WISESEARCH – WISERS INFORMATION PORTAL  Search for a particular column  Search for author  Search for company’s news  Company Search  Date/source/scope 8

Government news  news.gov.hk 香港政府新聞網 9 index.shtml index.shtml

Government Press Release  Basic Search for Press Releases  Advanced Search functions 10

HK Newspaper Clippings 11  Contents: Jun1999 ( in microfilm; Jun1999 online image)  view/print clippings  limited by publication  printing / saving list  browse for topic  browse by date n.edu.hk:2048/login?url=

Old HK Newspaper Collection  Provides access to selected news stories that published in Hong Kong from 1853 to 

Archives of Local Newspapers The Library houses microfilm archives of selected local newspapers:  Hong Kong Economic Journal 信報 (March )  Ming Pao 明報 (June )  Sing Tao Daily 星島日報 (August )  Sing Tao Wan Pao 星島晚報 (January June 1994)  South China Morning Post 南華日報 (from November 1903)  Guides to use Microfilm Reader Guides to use Microfilm Reader 13

Click here or type the following link to access the Quiz (LIB130: Part A)here In-class quiz 14

CHINA INFOBANK 中國資訊行  14 online databases for China’s information, e.g. economic news, business, law and statistics information › 中國經濟新聞 › 中國商業報告 › 中國法律法規庫 /gate/big5/

Other Internet Resources – China News  中國網 China Internet Information Center  SINA 新聞中心  百度新聞  新華網  人民網 16

LexisNexis Academic  Full-text information of news, business, and legal publications in English › SCMP: from July 28, 1992 to current  Easy Search › Search news stories › Find a legal case by Citation or Party Name › Find a company profile by Name or Ticker Symbol › Research a person › Do a broad search across different types of sources 17 /ap/academic

LexisNexis Academic 18  Power Search  Index Terms lookup  Supports sophisticated query language techniques for Boolean Searching

Factiva  Access to full-text information from over 35,000 resources, including news, company reports and financial data, in English  Free text search via Search Form  Modify Search  View/download(html/ RTF)/ /print/save  Listen to article, translate article 19

Other Internet Resources Google News Archive Search  Can search both Chinese and English news 20 vesearch

Other major Internet Resources - World News  BBC News  CNN Interactive  ABYZ News Links  world-newspapers.com

22 Guess what? Time for quiz ! Click here or type the following link to access the Quiz (LIB113: Part B) here

New Resources 23

Q & A  Getting help:  Ask a Librarian librarian librarian  Reference Enquires:  Chat Reference Service: 2pm-5pm, Mon-Fri  Research Consultation Service service service 24

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