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LIB130 Locating News Resources. LINGNAN UNIVERSITY LIBRARY FEB 2013 HTTP://WWW.LIBRARY.LN.EDU.HK/SERVICES/LIBRARY-WORKSHOPS/HANDOUTS. Course Outline. Library Subscribed Databases Wisenews HK Newspaper Clippings China InfoBank LexisNexis Academic Factiva. Internet Resources
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LIB130Locating News Resources LINGNAN UNIVERSITY LIBRARY FEB 2013 HTTP://WWW.LIBRARY.LN.EDU.HK/SERVICES/LIBRARY-WORKSHOPS/HANDOUTS
Course Outline • Library Subscribed Databases • Wisenews • HK Newspaper Clippings • China InfoBank • LexisNexis Academic • Factiva • Internet Resources • Government Press Release • China News • World News • Public Opinions • Other Resources • Microfilm
How to search news databases in the Library website? http://libguides.ln.edu.hk/content.php?pid=321307&sid=2714777
Wisenews • Special Topics / General Topics / Category News (HK) • Select news of a specific date range • Select news of a specific publisher • Sort by news headlines • Email, Print, Download and Save to My Temp Folder functions
WiseSearch– Wisers Information Portal • A one-stop news portal • Refine search criteria through search panel • Wise Search Pro
WISESEARCH – WISERS INFORMATION PORTAL • Search for a particular column • Search for author • Search for company’s news • Company Search • Date/source/scope • “My Thesaurus” allow you to create your own thesaurus for a keyword. As you search with this keyword, all associated terms will be searched at the same time. • Practice • 高鐵 • (limited to past 3 months, and Hong Kong media)
Government news • news.gov.hk 香港政府新聞網 http://www.news.gov.hk/en/index.shtml Practice “Milk Formula”
Government Press Release • Basic Search for Press Releases • Advanced Search functions http://www.isd.gov.hk/pr/eng/
HK Newspaper Clippings • Contents: 1980 - Jun1999 (1980 - 1995 in microfilm; 1996 - Jun1999 online image) • view/print clippings • limited by publication • printing / saving list • browse for topic • browse by date • Practice • 回歸 • (limited to 1996) http://libcdnet.ln.edu.hk/cdnet/index.htm
microfilm • Some old HK newspaper articles (e.g. 信報, 明報)can be found in microfilms. • Guides to use MicrofilmReader • How to search out the old newspapers in microfilm formatin the Library catalogue? Select “MICROFILM” in Material Type
CHINA INFOBANK 中國資訊行 • 14 online databases for China’s information, e.g. economic news, business, law and statistics information • 中國經濟新聞 • 中國商業報告 • 中國法律法規庫 • Practice • 中國 QFII http://114.255.108.171/gate/big5/www.infobank.cn
Other Internet Resources – China News • 中國網 China Internet Information Center http://www.china.org.cn • SINA新聞中心http://news.sina.com.cn/ • 百度新聞 http://news.baidu.com/ • 新華網 http://www.xinhuanet.com/ • 人民網 http://www.people.com.cn/
LexisNexis Academic • Full-text information of news, business, and legal publications in English • SCMP: from July 28, 1992 to current • Easy Search • Search news stories • Find a legal case by Citation or Party Name • Find a company profile by Name or Ticker Symbol • Find a country profile • Research a person • Do a broad search across different types of sources • Practice • Hillary Clinton http://www.lexisnexis.com/ap/academic/
LexisNexis Academic • Power Search • Index Terms lookup • Supports sophisticated query language techniques for Boolean Searching
Factiva • Access to full-text information from over 35,000 resources, including news, company reports and financial data, in English • Free text search via Search Form • Modify Search • View/download(html/RTF)/email/print/save • Listen to article, translate article Practice hongkong and “parallel goods”
Other Internet Resources Google News Archive Search • Can search both Chinese and English news http://news.google.com/archivesearch • Practice • “Diaoyu islands” and limited to past month
Other major Internet Resources - World News • BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/ • CNN Interactive http://www.cnn.com/ • ABYZ News Links http://www.abyznewslinks.com/ • world-newspapers.com http://www.world-newspapers.com/
SELECTED INTERNET RESOURCES – NEWS(LIBGUIDES) http://libguides.ln.edu.hk/content.php?pid=333865&sid=2730633
Public opinions http://libguides.ln.edu.hk/content.php?pid=333865&sid=2748089
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