Sociology 1001 Library Research Guide: News & Media
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Finding Newspaper Articles
- Factiva
- Factiva provides news, commentary, pictures, company information and stock quotes. The database contains more than 8,000 overseas and Australian newspaper and newswire publications and more than 9,000 web sites. For Australian news sources, the Fairfax publications archive is 13-22 years [SMH 1986+, AFR 1982+] and the News Limited archive is 8 years [Australian 1996+]. There is also a briefer archive on media transcripts for the ABC, SBS and Channel 9 (up to 1 year archive). Overseas media transcript archives are longer (up to 5 years). Pictures of major news events and reports also are available. Important: Click Logout when finished
- Current news and research service. Full-text articles from national & newspapers, Sydney Morning Herald and other Australian newspapers from 1986+ holdings vary.
- To access, click on the link to Factiva on the Library database page. Use the Source option to select different newspapers or newspaper categories.
- Searches can be limited to a specfic date or time period.
- Articles can be saved, printed or emailed.
- Factiva can be accessed from home
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Newspapers in the Library
- Current Issues: Past four to eight weeks of the Sydney Morning Herald, Australian and the Australian Financial Review are available in the Serials Room Level 3 Fisher Library.
- Back Issues of many Australian newspapers are available on microfilm in the Audio-visual area of Fisher Library. For example,
The Library holds the Sydney Morning Herald Aug. 1842- Dec. 2000 on microfilm 079.9441 11. Check the catalogue for other newspaper titles. - The State Library of New South Wales compiles Infoquick: An Index to the Sydney Morning Herald. INFOQUICK provides a comprehensive index to articles about Australia and Australians published in the Sydney Morning Herald and associated publications: Sun Herald and Good Weekend from 1988 onwards. This index is freely available on the State Library of New South Wales Web site
- An index to earlier issues of the Sydney Morning Herald is available in the Audiovisual section of the Library at 079.9441 8
- Significant articles in major Australian newspapers are indexed by APAIS; MAIS and Family Databases.
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Other Media Sources
Most major television and media networks have web sites. Transcripts of programmes and on-line news services are available from web sites. For example the ABC web site includes transcripts for many news and current affairs programmes. Links to many Australian media sources are available in the News & Media section of the Library Quick Reference GuidePrevious || Nexturl: http://www.library.usyd.edu.au/subjects/readyref/news.html