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Unit 3 - Newspapers Database Comparison | |
| DATABASE FEATURES |
ProQuest | SIRS |
| Date Range | varies | varies |
| Scope | 9 national papers | 100+ local & national papers |
| Indexing | selected | selected |
| Full text | yes | yes |
| Keyword Searching | yes | yes |
| Phrase Searching | no quotations around phrase | quotations required around phrase |
| Edit a search | yes | no |
| Boolean operators | yes | yes |
| Order of results | most current first | relevance or most current |
| E-mail articles | yes | yes |
| Search by newspaper title | yes | no |
| Charts, images and graphics | yes | yes |
| Email:
swharff@nvcc.edu Last updated: Wednesday, July 3, 2002 |