News resources for your research

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News resources for your research
WISER Social Sciences

• Gillian Beattie
• gillian.beattie_at_ssl.ox.ac.uk

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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

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In this session

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

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Blogs

• Search engines for finding whole blogs or
  individual posts on particular topics
• Technorati (http//technorati.com)
• Google blog search (http//blogsearch.google.com/)