| Databases
Defined |
Companies
create and publish web-based databases of articles from one to five
hundred major newspapers or several hundred local and regional newspapers
that provide
- organized collection of information
displayed as records
- records present bibliographic
information arranged in fields
- fields include author, article
title, newspaper title, date, section, or page
- amount of information provided might
include : full text, abstracts, or citations
- very recent newspaper citations might
even appear in a magazine database
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| General
Newspaper Databases (free for NOVA
students) |
- ProQuest
Direct Newspapers(9 National Newspapers including: NY Times,
Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science
Monitor, USA TODAY, Boston Globe, Chicago Sun
Times, Wall Street Journal, and Atlanta Journal/Constitution
- ProQuest
Historical Newspapers (select
the historical newspaper you want to search from the Database dropdown
menu). Includes the Washington Post back to 1877 and the
New York Times back to 1851.
- SIRS
(100+ newspapers, magazines,selected full-text)
- General
Reference Center Gold (most recent 90 days of NY Times, Wall
Street Journal, Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service, and the Christian
Science Monitor)
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| Web
Sites for Individual Newspapers (may
charge a fee) |
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| Databases
vs Individual Paper Web Sites |
Use
databases instead of web sites for individual papers when:
- you are searching by topic and need
information from many newspapers
- you need full text from years other
than the present
- you want to compare how papers in
different geographic regions reported an event
Use web sites for individual papers
when:
- you want current news published by
one source
- you need in-depth information about
a particular newspaper
- you want to follow hot links to
related articles
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| Article
Availability |
- full text online
- abstract online
- campus library owns paper copy of
article
- microfilm or microfiche copies of
back issues
- intercampus loan with another NVCC
campus library that owns the article; items are then scanned
to your home campus; fee-based service
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