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Princeton University Library. 2003 Information Village Fair. Navigating News Sources: Finding News and General Articles. Bobray Bordelon Bordelon@princeton.edu. Feeling overwhelmed?. Don’t know where to start?. So many places to turn for news and general interest titles….

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  1. Princeton University Library 2003 Information Village Fair

  2. Navigating News Sources: Finding News and General Articles Bobray Bordelon Bordelon@princeton.edu

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

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

  5. 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 http://sfx.princeton.edu:9003/citation/sfx_pul?t=journal

  8. Library Homepage http://libweb.princeton.edu/

  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 • 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 (1877-1987) • Wall St. Journal (1889-1985)

  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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