1. Locating News Resources
Oct 2017

2. Outline Mastering News Databases Factiva
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: South China Morning Post ( )
South China Morning Post
WiseNews
Hong Kong Education News Clippings
Other Newspapers Resources 2

3. How to Access News Databases
EdUHK Library Homepage > Database A-Z List > Browse E-Resources by Subject > News 3

5. Factiva
Factiva is a valuable research tool for many disciplines, including political science, media studies, business, technology studies, social science, journalism, the arts, and more. The comprehensive database allows users to browse through a collection of global content sources from 200 countries, in 26 languages – including newspapers, continuously updated newswires from Dow Jones and Reuters, journals and magazines, websites, blogs, and multimedia.

6. Basic Search Commands: Words in a Specific field
Search by source title: use sn (source name) to locate articles from Journal of Youth and Adolescence.
Other useful commands: hd (headline), by (author), wc (word count), etc. 6

7. Free Text Search, e.g. “health care reform” + latest year + Greater China
Enter your search term(s) in Free Text Search box
More search tips
Click the arrow to expand the menu from each category 7

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9. Email, print or save the article
Listen to the article or have it translated into another language 9

10. Browse other related articles10

11. Online help provided by Factiva11

12. Try Yourself: Hands-on
Search for all of the articles from The Times Literary Supplement in the last 3 months 12

13. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: South China Morning Post (1903-1997)
Coverage:
With searchable, full text coverage from South China Morning Post’s origin in 1903 up to and including 1997, 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. 13

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15. Search for news articles on “mother tongue education” from 1904 to 199715

16. Print / download the article16

17. Browse other articles from the same issue17

18. Try Yourself: Hands-on
Use the Advanced Search option to check with the editorial of South China Morning Post on 28 Feb 1917
Find out the full text coverage of South China Sunday Post - Herald in the database 18

19. SCMP (ePaper edition)
Read issues from the last 7 days with ePaper archive
Download the PDF and read offline on desktop or tablet 19

20. SCMP (SCMP.com) http://www.lib.eduhk.hk/cgi-bin/WAMConnMgr?sid=scmp
20-year news archive
Analysis of results in different sections & related keywords are provided
Example: search for “electronic road pricing” 20

21. Share the Article on Social Media21

22. WiseNews www.lib.eduhk.hk/cgi-bin/WAMConnMgr?sid=wisenews
Enter the search interface
Default mode allows you to browse EdUHK news
Select a period (2000-)
Click the headline to view the full text
Sorting options: relevancy, date, source 22

23. Browsing News on Other Topics2 1 3 23

24. Browsing News on Other Topics
Enter the search interface 24

25. Search via WiseNews
Change to WiseSearch interface

26. 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
Use longer keywords or the thesaurus option to improve a search
Select the Databases for searching:
a. WiseSearch - Covers leading local newspapers and publications
b. WiseSearch Pro - Covers local and international sources, including China, Macau, Taiwan, etc. 26

27. Search Tips 27

28. Search Result Page
Narrow down the search by input of additional terms
To print, download or a batch of articles. A maximum of 300 records can be exported per action.
Choose Edit Search to change search criteria 28

29. Export: Max 300 documents per download / email / print
Download format:
RTF, HTML, Text, PDF 29

30. Modify the Search in a Record
Find more related articles or other articles on the same page
Directly highlight another term from the article and click this button to initiate another search 30

31. Hong Kong Education News Clippings
Year Coverage:
Publications: Commercial Daily, Hong Kong Economic Times, Oriental Daily News, etc.
Format of the original full text: PDF format 31

32. Hong Kong Education News Clippings
How to Access
Hong Kong Education News Clippings
EdUHK Library Homepage > Click “More” in Find Resources > E-Newspapers
Select “Hong Kong Education News Clippings” 32

33. How to Search 1 2 3 4 5 33

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35. Other E-Newspapers Websites
EdUHK Library Homepage > Click “More” in Find Resources > E-Newspapers
URLs are sorted by alphabet and country 35

36. Introduction: Newspapers in the Library
Back issues of newspapers in hard copies (2/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 ( )
Sing Tao Daily 星島日報 ( )
South China Morning Post 南華早報 ( )
The Standard 英文虎報 ( )
News clippings (Bound Serials, 2/F):
Hong Kong newspaper clippings index ( )
Hong Kong newspaper clippings ( ) 36

37. Multimedia Information System of Hong Kong Public Libraries https://mmis.hkpl.gov.hk/
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.  37

38. Coverage of the Old HK Newspapers38

39. View all items by title 39

40. Example : search with keywords 母語教學40

41. Share the Article on Social Media41

42. Browse the news on this day in history
MMIS Home Page 42

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