Center for Research Libraries · Current News Coverage, ComparedCurrent News Coverage, Compared ... - LexisNexis. E-Resource Database Survey • Surveyed news databases from 50 large

Gl b l R R dt blGlobal Resources Roundtable: Beyond the Fold: Access to News in the 

Digital Era

Center for Research LibrariesJune 27 2013June 27, 2013

C ti A l i fComparative Analysis of Broadcast News Coverage

James Simon CRLCRL

CRL’s Strategic Agenda - NewsPreservation

• CRL Collection Building

Digitization

• World NewspaperPrograms

• ICON/FNMP microfilming

Archive

• In-house conversion (on demand)

• Area Microform Projects(on demand)

Licensing Anal sisLicensing

• CRL Electronic ResourceOffers

Analysis

• Global ResourcesForumOffers

• Global ResourcesNetwork programs

Forum

• Comparative analysisp g

• ICON knowledgebase

Electronic Licensing / Purchase

• Favorable offers on commercial content

Ti f I di (P Q t)– Times of India (ProQuest)

– Shen Bao (East View)

– 20th-Century American Newspapers (Readex)

ProQuest International Newsstand– ProQuest International Newsstand

I t ti l t t t dil il bl• International content not readily available through mainstream publishers

Current News Coverage, ComparedCurrent News Coverage, Compared

A t f j ti• Assessment of major news aggregations– Content scope, coverage, and uniqueness– Content integrity and persistence– Use cases

Broadcast Coverage, ComparedBroadcast Coverage, Compared

Content scope co erage and niq eness– Content scope, coverage, and uniqueness– Ease of access

C t t i t it d i t– Content integrity and persistence– Use cases– Alternate access

Sample display ofSample display of summary results - AWN

Full-text display -AWN

Sample display ofSample display of summary results - Factiva

Sample display of p p ysummary results – InfoTracNewsstand

Sample display ofSample display of summary results - LexisNexis

E-Resource Database Survey

• Surveyed news databases from 50 large

bmembers

– Full-text (current, historical)

– Indexes and abstracts

News aggregations– News aggregations

– Subject-specific databases

• Comparative assessment of 20 smaller

institutionsinstitutions

E-Resource Database Survey

Nearly universal take-up of LN, sharp drop among smaller libraries for 2nd

database

Other Resources

• ABC News Transcripts on microfilm, 1970-1995ABC News Transcripts on microfilm, 1970 1995

• CBS News Transcripts, 1963-1988

• Foreign Broadcast Information Service

BBC S f W ld B d t• BBC Summary of World Broadcast

Internet Archive’sArchive s interface is simple and fast

Results show video clips andvideo clips and text snippets (closed captioning) –p g)difficult navigation

Advanced search exampleexample

Extracted topics may mislead –keywords extracted from advertising as

ellwell.

Limited “academic”academic functionality (no full-text access, citations, etc.), , ),but may have discoverability applications