1. WISER Social Sciences: News sources for research
Mark Janes
Social Sciences Subject Consultant

2. Why use news sources for research?
Source of factual information when official documents not available
Zeitgeist
News and public opinion
News and political communication
Bias, media control, and regulation
Newspaper readership and political/class/social status
Geographic and historical comparisons

3. The evolution and devolution of news
Online newspapers/ news sites
24 hour TV news
Digital and Internet radio
RSS feeds
Podcasts
Citizen journalism (You Tube/Mobile phone video, Blogs)
Forums

4. The evolution and devolution of news

5. Searching news sources
Libraries hold very few print copies of newspapers (exception: UK newspapers in the Bodleian, some foreign newspapers in the Taylorian)
Microfilms expensive and increasingly out of favour
Large aggregate databases (easy to search full-text but coverage varies)
Digital archives (multimedia and text, in development)

6. Available Resources (via SOLO or OxLIP+)
General/ Aggregate sources for Newspapers
Nexis UK (formerly Lexis-Nexis News)
Factiva
EMIS (Emerging Markets Information Service)
Westlaw
Eastview Russian Newspapers
Historical Newspapers
Times Digital Archive
Proquest: New York Times, Wall Street
19th Century Newspapers (UK)

7. Available Resources (via SOLO or OxLIP+)
Specialist news publications (industry, trade, political, legal)
FT.Com (Financial Times online)
Business Source (Country Reports, Business and Trade)
Oxford Analytica (Political analysis)
ABI/Inform (Trade and Industry publications)
Ethnic Newswatch (Mainly US, ethnic press)
Nikkei Telecom21
TVRadio transcripts
EMIS
BBC Monitoring (via Nexis UK, Factiva)
Factiva

8. Available Resources (Web sites)
Multimedia archives
Internet Archive:
ITV archive
CBC (Canada)
BUFVC
Blogs
Technocrati
Google Blog Search

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