GNED 008 EUREKA! INFORMATION SKILLS FOR LIFE-LONG LEARNING NEWS SOURCES

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GNED 008 EUREKA! INFORMATION SKILLS FOR LIFE-LONG
LEARNING NEWS SOURCES

• Eunice WONG
• Email lbeunice_at_ust.hk

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History of Newspaper

• Periodical publication conveying news comment
  on current events.
• Handwritten news-sheets were posted in public
  places in ancient Rome under such titles as Acta
  Diurna (Daily Events) around 59BC.
• The invention of printing facilitated the growth
  of newspapers. Papers printed from movable type
  started to appear in Germany, Italy, and the
  Netherlands in the first half of the 17th
  century.
• Daily Courant (launched in 1702) was the first
  regular daily newspaper published in England.

Source "newspaper"  World Encyclopedia.
Philip's, 2008. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford
University Press.  Hong Kong University of
Science and Technology.  5 May 2009
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Newspaper Research

• Newspapers cover
• Current events (financial, political or social)
  at local, national, regional or international
  level
• Feature articles that investigate particular
  topics
• Obituaries (??) biographical information
• Press releases individuals, government or
  non-government organizations, companies, etc.
• Reviews book, electronics, movie, music,
  restaurant, software, etc.

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NEWS ARTICLES ARE USEFUL IN FINDING

• Consumer information
• Facts statistics
• people/organizations/government /places/events
• Historical developments of social or political
  issues, etc.

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Where How to Find News Information?

• Think about what you want (your needs)
• Currency
• Up-to-date or historical?
• Location
• Local (HK), national (China), regional (Asia
  Pacific) or international?
• Content
• A known article from a specific paper or articles
  on a particular topic?
• Subject focus
• Wall Street Journal international national
  news with a business and financial perspective.
• Financial Times international business, finance,
  economic and political news

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News on the Internet

• Cons
• Online version ? print version
• Free registration (Washington Post) or paid
  subscription (South China Morning Post) may be
  required.
• Limited access to older articles (archives)
• Paid subscription or direct purchase (per
  article).
• Primitive search features.

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News on the Internet

• Pros
• News sites such as Google News, Yahoo! News ,
  ?????? provide continuously updated news.
• Receive news updates by email or by subscribing
  to the site's feed (
  )using a news aggregator (definition).

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News at The HKUST Library

• News sources may be in different formats
• paper
• microform
• electronic
• Library Catalog call number search for
  "newspaper" to get an alphabetical list of all
  the newspapers we subscribe to.
• Search news databases to find citations
  abstracts (summaries), or full-text of news
  articles.
• Advanced search features consult database's own
  online help or guides compiled by the Library
• Search across different newspapers
• Archival articles available

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Selected News Databases

• Current International
• LexisNexis Academic
• 6,000 English language news sources
  newspapers, news wires (electronic newsletters),
  magazines and broadcast transcripts.
• New York Times (1980- ), Economist (1975- ),
  South China Morning Post (1992- ), etc.
• ProQuest U.S. National Newspaper Abstracts
  (alumni e-resources)
• Full-text of New York Times (1980- ), USA Today
  (1997-) Wall Street Journal (1984- )
• Factiva.com (HK Central Library, City Hall Public
  Library)
• Global news and business information through Dow
  Jones Interactive and Reuters Business Briefing.

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Selected News Databases

• LexisNexis Academic News Search
• Location of terms
• Headline article title
• Lead paragraphs first few paragraphs
• Indexing major concepts discussed in the
  document
• Byline author
• Occurrence how many times the term appear
• Connector
• AND all terms must appear
• OR any one or all of the terms can appear
• Within how close the terms should appear (5 25
  words apart, same sentence or paragraph)
• Wildcard ( ! ) variant endings of the same root
• pollut! gets pollute, polluted, pollution, etc.

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In-class Exercise 1

• Suppose you are thinking of buying a Panasonic
  Lumix LX3 digital camera (Sony Ericsson C905
  mobile phone, etc.), find the latest reviews on
  this product.
• News search
• Location of the terms anywhere, HL LP or HL
  only
• Connectors AND, OR, within.
• How many times the search terms appear
• Source type
• Date range
• What does the review say about it (product
  features) ?
• Will you buy it? Why or why not?

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In-class Exercise 2

• Search for news about HSBC holdings
• Focus your search
• Add additional keywords
• profit!, china, etc.
• term variations subprime/sub prime mortgage,
• Subject company strategy, mergers
  acquisitions, etc.
• What can you learn about this company from the
  news?
• Profit? Rating? Future plan/expansion?

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Selected News Databases

• Current Local
• ???? WiseNews (1998- )
• Full-text of local newspapers South China
  Morning Post, The Standard, ????,??????,??????,??,
  ????,????,???,??? , etc.
• Also articles from selected local magazines,
  newspapers magazines from China, Macau and
  Taiwan.
• Browse by categories
• WiseSearch
• ??? ?? ??? and??
• (?? /??) ??? (?? or ??) and ???
• Location of terms HL and content or HL only
• Proximity of terms within sentence/paragraph/whol
  e document
• Company Search
• Search options

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Selected News Databases

• Historical International
• Archives - The New York Times Open Access
• Search for more than 15 million articles
  published from 1851 - 1980. Limited preview of
  each article, PDFs available for purchase.
• Google News Archives Open Access
• Collection of historical archives from major
  newspapers magazines.
• Search results include both free (such as BBC
  News Time Magazine) and fee-based (such as
  Washington Post Archives New York Times
  Archives) articles.

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Selected News Databases

• Historical Local
• Old HK Newspapers Open Access
• Use Internet Explorer
• HK Public Libraries' Multimedia Information
  System.
• Images of 11 HK newspapers published from 1853 to
  1991 ???????????????????????????????????China
  Mail?Hong Kong Daily Press?Hong Kong Sunday
  Herald?Hong Kong Telegraph and Hong Kong Weekly
  Press.