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Princeton University Library
2003 Information Village Fair
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Navigating News Sources: Finding News and General Articles
Bobray Bordelon
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Don’t know where to start?
Feeling overwhelmed? Don’t know where to start?
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So many places to turn for news and general interest titles…..
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Web Factiva Lexis Nexis Proquest Historical Newspapers Paper Film
A few of the major ones….. Web Factiva Lexis Nexis Proquest Historical Newspapers Paper Film
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More major ones….. Proquest Direct Academic Search Premier
Reader’s Guide Periodical Contents Index
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Introducing PULinks/SFX
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Library Homepage
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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
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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
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News Sources Lexis Nexis Academic Proquest Historical Newspapers
New York Times Financial Times Unlimited Users Proquest Historical Newspapers Paper/Film Subscriptions
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News Sources Proquest Historical Newspapers New York Times (1851-1999)
Washington Post ( ) Wall St. Journal ( )
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News Sources Paper/Film Subscriptions Check Main Catalog
Microfilm of many major papers Foreign Film Holdings USA Holdings
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General Periodical Sources
Proquest Direct Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) Reader’s Guide Periodical Contents Index
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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
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General Periodical Sources
Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) 1975+ Easy to Use! Mix of scholarly and popular PDF Images PULinks Linking
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Readers Guide/Readers Guide Retrospective
1890+ PULinks Linking Popular Magazines
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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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