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Flickr - Dave Crosby Newspapers and other online news sources from the 17th – 21st centuries Slides available at https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/x/01OGv6 Logon to PCs with your University barcode no. & associated password Flickr - Dave Crosby Newspapers and other online news sources from the 17th – 21st centuries Angela Carritt [email protected] @bodleianskills Isabel Holowaty [email protected] @HFLOxford In this session… • What is covered today • Value of Newspapers • How to find and access newspaper resources • Top searching tips • Common problems • Key resources • Play time Flickr - Dave Crosby LibGuide: Newspapers and other online news sources https://ox.libguides.com/newspapers/home Coverage today Newspaper (n.) “A printed publication, now usually issued daily or weekly, consisting of folded unstapled sheets and containing news, freq. with the addition of advertisements, photographs, articles, and correspondence” OED Online. March 2015. Oxford University Press • Scope today: later 17th century to 21st century, largely English language but with global reach. • Cover subscription and key free web resources, but not social media • Historical archives v. current content • Broadsheet v. tabloid The value of newspapers • News & views • Commentary on politics, economics, social and cultural life, foreign affairs, justice system • Ephemera, e.g. births, deaths, court circular, advertising, images, cartoons, weather, sports results, stock market, fashion, etc. • BUT need to understand your newspaper: political, religious, class, gender, racial affiliation Good source: Waterloo Directory of English Periodicals and Newspapers, 1800-1900 Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals, 1800-1900 The Waterloo directory of Scottish newspapers and periodicals, 1800-1900 The Waterloo directory of Irish newspapers and periodicals, 1800-1900 What you can do with newspapers • Search for specific person, place, event across or in individual newspaper for political, social, economic, cultural history (incl. literature), etc. • Research life in particular place or period • Research newspaper as form of communication (incl. linguistic aspects) • Research specific content types (ads, editorials, obituaries, etc.) FINDING SPECIFIC NEWSPAPERS 1. Finding a specific newspaper on SOLO Daily Mail Choose “in the title” Newspapers are listed as “journals” If you’re confident of the title choosing “starts with” is the most effective strategy Finding a specific newspapers on SOLO Once you’ve found the title in SOLO, choose the correct date. Yellow box gives overview of available dates. Scroll through the list to find individual dates You may need to click ‘View all items’ (several times) 2. Finding a specific paper on OU eJournals Choosing “Exact” will narrow down your results 3. Finding a specific paper on OxLIP+ OxLIP+ (http://oxlip-plus.bodleian.ox.ac.uk ) Newspapers covers newspaper collections/archives plus some specific titles OxLIP+ should NOT be your first port when searching for specific newspaper. 4. Finding a specific paper using Milford &Sutherland Pre 1800: Milford & Sutherland A catalogue of English newspapers and periodicals in the Bodleian Library, 1622- 1800 [Lower Reading Room B1.1202] 5. Finding a specific paper – British Library Catalogue • British Library Explore –good for finding papers by place http://explore.bl.uk (Advanced Search) 6. Finding a specific paper: Ask for help • If you can’t find it, Ask for help RESEARCH TOOLS & DATABASES FOR NEWSPAPERS Finding research tools • OxLIP+ (http://oxlip-plus.bodleian.ox.ac.uk) > Subject > Newspapers SEARCH TIPS E.G. RESEARCHING NEWS COVERAGE OF TAX AVOIDANCE AND THE ROYAL FAMILY AND / OR e.g. researching news coverage of tax avoidance and the queen Tax avoidance AND queen OR OR Tax evasion royal family OR offshore OR Tax loophole (tax avoidance OR tax evasion OR offshore OR tax loophole) AND (queen OR royal family) Phrase searching e.g. researching news coverage of tax avoidance and the queen “Tax avoidance” AND Queen OR OR “Tax evasion “ “Royal family “ OR offshore Also use “” around names e.g. OR “Cayman Islands”, “World Bank”, “Tax loophole “ “Panama Papers” (“tax avoidance” OR “tax evasion” OR offshore OR “tax loophole”) AND (queen OR royal family) Truncation and wild cards e.g. researching news coverage of tax avoidance and the queen “Tax avoid*” AND Queen OR OR “Tax eva*” “Royal family” OR offshore You can also use ? to replace a single OR letter e.g. wom?n, organi?ation, “Tax loophole*” behavio?r (“tax avoid*” OR “tax eva*” OR offshore OR “tax loophole*”) AND (queen OR “royal family”) Proximity searching e.g.e.g. researching researching news news coverage coverage of of tax tax avoidance avoidance and by the royalqueen family “Tax avoid*” NEAR Queen OR OR “Tax eva*” “Royal family” OR offshore OR “Tax loophole*” (“tax avoid*” OR “tax eva*” OR offshore OR “tax loophole*”) NEAR (queen OR “royal family”) (“tax avoid*” OR “tax eva*” OR offshore OR “tax loophole*”) NEAR (queen OR “royal family”) (“tax avoid*” OR “tax eva*” OR offshore OR “tax loophole*”) AND (queen OR “royal family”) Search tips: Search technique • AND (between all words which must be present in search results) e.g. queen and tax avoidance • OR - Use between synonyms or alternative terms to indicate that one or other word must be present e.g. queen OR royal family • “specific phrase” – use quote marks to search for a specific phrase e.g. “tax avoidance” • *truncation finds alternative word endings e.g. avoid* finds avoid, avoidance, avoided, avoids. Be careful eva* finds evasion, evaded, evades but also evangelist, evacuate etc • ? To replace a single character e.g. wom?n finds women, woman • Proximity operators (NEAR, ADJ, SAME, w/ etc) - same as AND but the words must appear near to one another. Check Help files for details. Mind your language! • Historic - what language would have been used at the time? • Language used by newspapers maybe emotive, colloquial, puns etc • Some regular columns will always keep the same title What are you searching? • News • Opinion e.g. editorials, columnists, letters • Ephemera (e.g. weather, horoscopes, crosswords, cartoons, TV schedules, adverts) • Supplements / Features • Records (birth /marriages/deaths) Newspapers B&W (3) by Jon S https://www.flickr.com/photos/62693815@N03/62 77208708 Where are you searching? Searching full text can return too many results Searching headlines is unreliable Lead paragraph can be a good option HISTORIC SOURCES Different providers • Different platforms & functionality for searching / output • Different coverage • Can’t cross-search all of historic content • Digital editions have different layout policies Richard Heaton's Index to Digitalised British and Irish Newspapers Online Beta http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dutillieul/BritishandIrishNews.html 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers; British Library 19th Century Newspapers; 19th Century British Library Newspapers Part II; Ancestry ; British Newspaper Archive; Cambrian Indexing Project; Cengage Daily Mail Historical Archive; Gale News Vault; Googlenewspapers ; Highland History & Culture; Internet Library of Early Periodicals ;Irish News Archive; The Irish Times; Jewish Chronicle Archive; Lastchancetoread; London Gazette Archive; Manx National Heritage; Newspaper Archive; Newspapers.com; Slough History Online; The Stage Archive; Teesdale Mercury Archive; Times Digital Archive; Sunday Times Digital Archive; Financial Times Digital Archive; Guardian Digital Archive; Scotsman; UK Press Online; and Welsh Newspapers Online (Beta) Common problems • Vast amount of information • Quality of scans • Printing: broadsheet to A4, column layout England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland pre-1800 https://ox.libguides.com/newspapers/britishandirish Bombay Courier, Volume 12 - 1803 - Calcutta Chronicle; and General Advertiser, Issue 536 - © Adam Matthew Digital Volume 02 - 1787-1788 - Issue 55 - © Adam Calcutta Chronicle; and General Matthew Digital Advertiser, Volume 02 - 1787-1788 - Issue 72 - © Adam Matthew Digital England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland post-1800 https://ox.libguides.com/newspapers/britishandirish What is available to you: 1800- United States https://ox.libguides.com/newspapers/unitedstates • The Nationals – Washington Post (1877-1996) – New York Times Historical Archive (1851-2010) – The Nation Digital Archives (1865-) – The National Review Digital Archive (1955-) – The New Republic Archives (1914-) • Regional coverage – Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (1836- 1922) http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ – Chicago Defender (1910-1975) – New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993) – Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002) Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 (via OxLIP+) Indexes articles in the popular American press by subject, as well as to over three million articles from approximately 375 periodicals, many in full text. What is available to you: Europe • Europeana Newspapers http://www.europeana-newspapers.eu/ • The European Library – historic newspapers http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/newspapers What is available to you: France, Belgium, Netherlands https://ox.libguides.com/newspapers/francebelgiumnetherlands What is available to you: Germany, Austria, Switzerland https://ox.libguides.com/newspapers/germanyaustriaswitzerland What is available to you: other countries Examples: • Izvestiia Digital Archive 1917- • Pravda Digital Archive (1912-2009) • Latin American Newspapers (1805-1922) • Times of India (1861-2006) • China
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