LIB130 Locating News Resources

Lingnan University LibraryLingnan University Library

Feb 2012Feb 2012

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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

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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

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Wisenews

– Wisers Information Portal

A one-stop information portal

Simple search vs advanced search

Refine search criteria through search panel

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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.

PracticePractice 網上欺凌 高鐵

Wisenews – Wisers Information Portal

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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

PracticePractice1. 中國 qfii

China InfoBank

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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

LexisNexis Academic

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LexisNexis Academic

Power Search Index Terms lookup Supports

sophisticated query language techniques for Boolean Searching

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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

Factiva

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Free text search via Search Form Modify Search View/download(html/RTF)/email/print/save Listen to article, translate article How to logout PracticePractice

1. hong kong and election

Factiva

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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

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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

PracticePractice1. 抗戰勝利 1946

Old HK Newspaper Collection(Hong Kong Public Libraries)

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news.gov.hk 香港政

府新聞網 : http://www.news.gov.hk/en/index.shtml

PracticePractice1. Hong Kong-Zhuhai-

Macau or 港珠澳大橋

Government Press Release

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News Archives: http://www.isd.gov.hk/pr/eng/

Government Press Release

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http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/eresources/internet_resources/News/

Internet Resources

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Google News Archive

Search http://news.google.com/archivesearch

PracticePractice1. "mao tse tung"

then limit to 1945

Internet Resources

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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/

Internet Resources – China News

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ABYZ News Links

http://www.abyznewslinks.com/ world-newspapers.com http://www.world-

newspapers.com/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/ CNN Interactive http://www.cnn.com/

Internet Resources - World News

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Opinion survey:

http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/eresources/internet_resources/Hong_Kong_Information/Opinion_Survey/

Public Opinions

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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

Q & A

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