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1 Princeton University Library
2003 Information Village Fair

2 Navigating News Sources: Finding News and General Articles
Bobray Bordelon

3 Don’t know where to start?
Feeling overwhelmed? Don’t know where to start?

4 So many places to turn for news and general interest titles…..

5 Web Factiva Lexis Nexis Proquest Historical Newspapers Paper Film
A few of the major ones….. Web Factiva Lexis Nexis Proquest Historical Newspapers Paper Film

6 More major ones….. Proquest Direct Academic Search Premier
Reader’s Guide Periodical Contents Index

7 Introducing PULinks/SFX

8 Library Homepage

9 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

10 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

11 News Sources Lexis Nexis Academic Proquest Historical Newspapers
New York Times Financial Times Unlimited Users Proquest Historical Newspapers Paper/Film Subscriptions

12 News Sources Proquest Historical Newspapers New York Times (1851-1999)
Washington Post ( ) Wall St. Journal ( )

13 News Sources Paper/Film Subscriptions Check Main Catalog
Microfilm of many major papers Foreign Film Holdings USA Holdings

14 General Periodical Sources
Proquest Direct Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) Reader’s Guide Periodical Contents Index

15 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

16 General Periodical Sources
Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) 1975+ Easy to Use! Mix of scholarly and popular PDF Images PULinks Linking

17 Readers Guide/Readers Guide Retrospective
1890+ PULinks Linking Popular Magazines

18 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


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