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1 News resources for your research
WISER Social Sciences News resources for your research Gillian Beattie

2 Why use news resources? Up to the minute coverage of events
Access to different points of view and varying representations and interpretations of events Zeitgeist

3 In this session Nexis UK Factiva Historical archives Blogs
The Times Digital Archive ProQuest newspapers (including The Guardian, New York Times, and Washington Post) Blogs

4 Blogs Search engines for finding whole blogs or individual posts on particular topics: Technorati ( Google blog search (

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