LIB130 Locating News Resources

1. LIB130Locating News Resources Lingnan University Library Feb 2012 http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/help/classes/2012/spring/powerpoint/

2. Course Outline • Library Subscribed Databases • Wisenews • China InfoBank • LexisNexis Academic • Factiva • HK Newspaper Clippings • Internet Resources • Old HK Newspaper Collection • Government Press Release • China News • World News • Public Opinions

3. Wisenews • Special Topics / General Topics / Category News (HK) • Select news of a specific date range • Select news of a specific publisher • Sort news headlines • Setting • Email, Print, Download and Save to My Temp Folder functions

4. Wisenews – Wisers Information Portal • A one-stop information portal • Simple search vs advanced search • Refine search criteria through search panel

5. Wisenews – 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 • 網上欺凌 • 高鐵

6. China InfoBank • 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

7. LexisNexis Academic • Full-text information of news, business, and legal publications • 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

8. LexisNexis Academic • Power Search • Index Terms lookup • Supports sophisticated query language techniques for Boolean Searching

9. Factiva • Access to full-text information from over 9,000 news resources as well as tens of thousands of company reports and financial data • News pages: Browsing, view full text, search the newsstand

10. Factiva • Free text search via Search Form • Modify Search • View/download(html/RTF)/email/print/save • Listen to article, translate article • How to logout • Practice • hong kong and election

11. 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

12. Old HK Newspaper Collection(Hong Kong Public Libraries) • http://hkclweb.hkpl.gov.hk/hkclr2/internet/eng/html/frm-bas_srch.html • provides access to selected news stories that published in Hong Kong from 1853 to 1987 • Service hours • Tuesday: 8am - 9pm • Others: 8am - 2am • Practice • 抗戰勝利 1946

13. Government Press Release • news.gov.hk 香港政府新聞網: http://www.news.gov.hk/en/index.shtml • Practice • Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau or 港珠澳大橋

14. Government Press Release • News Archives: http://www.isd.gov.hk/pr/eng/

15. Internet Resources • http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/eresources/internet_resources/News/

16. Internet Resources • Google News Archive Search http://news.google.com/archivesearch • Practice • "mao tse tung" then limit to 1945

17. 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/

18. Internet Resources - World News • ABYZ News Links http://www.abyznewslinks.com/ • world-newspapers.comhttp://www.world-newspapers.com/ • BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/ • CNN Interactive http://www.cnn.com/

19. Public Opinions • Opinion survey:http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/eresources/internet_resources/Hong_Kong_Information/Opinion_Survey/

20. Q & A • More information on News Resources: http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/help/userguide/hkchnews.html • Getting help: • Ask a Librarian http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/help/eref/ • Tel: 2616-8571 • Email: refstaff@ln.edu.hk Thank You!