Locating News Resources Oct 2017 Outline

Locating News Resources Oct 2017

Outline • Mastering News Databases – Factiva – Pro. Quest Historical Newspapers: South China Morning Post (1903 -1997) – South China Morning Post – Wise. News – Hong Kong Education News Clippings • Other Newspapers Resources 2

How to Access News Databases Ed. UHK Library Homepage > Database A-Z List > Browse E-Resources by Subject > News 3

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Factiva is a valuable research tool for many disciplines, including political science, media studies, business, technology studies, social science, journalism, the arts, and more. The comprehensive database allows users to browse through a collection of global content sources from 200 countries, in 26 languages – including newspapers, continuously updated newswires from Dow Jones and Reuters, journals and magazines, websites, blogs, and multimedia. 5

Basic Search Commands: Words in a Specific field Search by source title: use sn (source name) to locate articles from Journal of Youth and Adolescence. Other useful commands: hd (headline), by (author), wc (word count), etc. 6

Free Text Search, e. g. “health care reform” + latest year + Greater China Enter your search term(s) in Free Text Search box More search tips Click the arrow to expand the menu from each category 7

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Email, print or save the article Listen to the article or have it translated into another language 9

Browse other related articles 10

Online help provided by Factiva 11

Try Yourself: Hands-on • Search for all of the articles from The Times Literary Supplement in the last 3 months 12

Pro. Quest Historical Newspapers: South China Morning Post (1903 -1997) http: //www. lib. eduhk. hk/cgi-bin/WAMConn. Mgr? sid=SCMP • Coverage: 1903 - 1997 • With searchable, full text coverage from South China Morning Post’s origin in 1903 up to and including 1997, users will be able to search the entirety of the newspaper including advertisements, editorials, cartoons, and photographs that illuminate history as much as the news articles. 13

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Search for news articles on “mother tongue education” from 1904 to 1997 15

Print / download the article 16

Browse other articles from the same issue 17

Try Yourself: Hands-on • Use the Advanced Search option to check with the editorial of South China Morning Post on 28 Feb 1917 • Find out the full text coverage of South China Sunday Post - Herald in the database 18

SCMP (e. Paper edition) http: //www. lib. eduhk. hk/cgi-bin/WAMConn. Mgr? sid=scmpaper • • Read issues from the last 7 days with e. Paper archive Download the PDF and read offline on desktop or tablet 19

SCMP (SCMP. com) http: //www. lib. eduhk. hk/cgi-bin/WAMConn. Mgr? sid=scmp • • 20 -year news archive Analysis of results in different sections & related keywords are provided Example: search for “electronic road pricing” 20

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Wise. News www. lib. eduhk. hk/cgi-bin/WAMConn. Mgr? sid=wisenews Default mode allows you to browse Ed. UHK news Select a period (2000 -) Enter the search interface Click the headline to view the full text Sorting options: relevancy, date, source 22

Browsing News on Other Topics 2 1 3 23

Browsing News on Other Topics Enter the search interface 24

Search via Wise. News Change to Wise. Search interface 25

Search via Wise. Search Type search term(s) into the keyword box (Support Boolean search) Specify source(s) or date range to be searched. The date range can be set up to 5 years Use longer keywords or thesaurus option to improve a search Select the Databases for searching: a. Wise. Search - Covers leading local newspapers and publications b. Wise. Search Pro - Covers local and international sources, including China, Macau, Taiwan, etc. 26

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Search Result Page Narrow down the search by input of additional terms To print, download or email a batch of articles. A maximum of 300 records can be exported per action. Choose Edit Search to change search criteria 28

Export: Max 300 documents per download / email / print Download format: RTF, HTML, Text, PDF 29

Modify the Search in a Record Find more related articles or other articles on the same page Directly highlight another term from the article and click this button to initiate another search 30

Hong Kong Education News Clippings 1. Year Coverage: 1987 -1999 2. Publications: Commercial Daily, Hong Kong Economic Times, Oriental Daily News, etc. 3. Format of the original full text: PDF format 31

How to Access Hong Kong Education News Clippings 1. Ed. UHK Library Homepage > Click “More” in Find Resources > E-Newspapers 2. Select “Hong Kong Education News Clippings” 32

How to Search 1 2 3 4 5 33

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Other E-Newspapers Websites 1. Ed. UHK Library Homepage > Click “More” in Find Resources > ENewspapers 2. URLs are sorted by alphabet and country 35

Introduction: Newspapers in the Library Back issues of newspapers in hard copies (2/F): • Print copies of HK newspapers are kept in the Library for the latest 2 months Microformat (3/F): • Ming Pao Daily News 明報 (1959 -2014) • Sing Tao Daily 星島日報 (1938 -2009) • South China Morning Post 南華早報 (1984 -2013) • The Standard 英文虎報 (2002 -2009) News clippings (Bound Serials, 2/F): • Hong Kong newspaper clippings index (1980 -1999) http: //library. eduhk. hk/record=b 1033501~S 5 • Hong Kong newspaper clippings (1993 -1999) http: //library. eduhk. hk/record=b 1133651~S 5 36

Multimedia Information System of Hong Kong Public Libraries https: //mmis. hkpl. gov. hk/ • MMIS provides a rich collection of digitized format of materials on microfilms, clippings, maps, posters, house programmes etc. • The Old Hong Kong Newspapers Collection is a selective collection of major old Hong Kong Newspapers published from early Hong Kong to nowadays, aiming at preserving historical news reporting of Hong Kong for reference and research. 37

Coverage of the Old HK Newspapers 38

View all items by title 39

Example : search with keywords 母語教學 40

Share the Article on Social Media 41

Browse the news on this day in history MMIS Home Page 42

Thank You Ask your Librarian @ o Information Counter o Tel: 2948 6653 o Email: libinfo@eduhk. hk 43