Newspapers: Nexis UK

Created 18th July 2011

Nexis UK offers access to an extensive range of full-text English and foreign language newspapers from around the globe. These include regional, national and international titles. Coverage varies with each title: Major newspaper titles include The New York Times (1980-), Washington Post (1977-), Moscow Times (1993-), International Herald Tribune (1991-), The Times/Sunday Times ( 1985-), The Independent (1988-), Guardian (1982-), Irish Times (1992-). Foreign language titles include Le Figaro (1997-), Die Welt (1999-), La Stampa (1992-) and El Pais (1996-).

How do I access Nexis UK ? From the UCD Library homepage a. Select findit @UCD Library on the Finding Information section. b. Select Nexis UK from the newspaper database listings. The following screen will appear: The homepage defaults to “News” The “News” database includes both newspaper and business/trade journal articles. To limit your search to newspaper content only, you must select an appropriate newspaper file. The “News” database contains a number of sub-files. To view the range of sub-files simply click here.

The listing of sub-files will now display

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1. Selecting and viewing newspaper files: Example: Major World Newspapers (English) A. Select “Major World Newspaper (English)” file from listing by clicking on file name.

B. The following screen appears: An alphabetical listing of newspaper titles which are contained within this file is displayed below. This file contains over 40 newspapers from around the world Click here to scroll through the listing to view full content of this file. For more detailed information regarding the content of this file click on the “Information” icon.

2. Determining the coverage of individual newspaper titles: Example: New York Times a) Scroll down alphabetical listing. Select your title by clicking on box. b) Click on Information icon. c)Coverage details are displayed.

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OTHER KEY NEWSPAPER FILES : In addition to the Major World Newspapers (English) file which offers the content of over 40 full-text newspaper titles from around the world, Nexis UK also includes: Irish Publications: this file includes Irish regional and national titles in addition to Irish business/trade publications. This file includes The Belfast Telegraph (1996-), Belfast Newsletter (1997-), Irish Examiner (2007-), Irish Independent (2006-), Irish News (2001-), Irish Times (1992-) and Sunday Business Post. (2007-). Note: Sunday Tribune (2001-) is contained within the Major World Newspapers file. UK National Newspapers: Includes all major daily UK national titles, both broadsheet and tabloid. UK Broadsheets: A smaller file limited to Britain’s seven major “quality” broadsheets. UK Regional Newspapers: Includes hundreds of local/regional titles from around the UK. Note: The UK Publications file includes all Newspaper content in addition to hundreds of trade/business publications. Foreign language newspapers: foreign language titles are contained within specific language files. European newspapers content for example, can be found by selecting the following files – French Language News, German Language News, Spanish Language News etc. Note: In addition to Newspaper content, these files include hundreds of trade and business publications. To limit a search to newspapers when using these files, users need to select individual newspaper titles by scrolling through the alphabetical listings of titles contained within the file (as shown in example above).

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SEARCHING FOR NEWSPAPER ARTICLES: The News search form allows you to easily build searches using document sections, connectors etc. For further assistance in entering search terms, limiting by date etc., click here

The “How Do I ?” section offers more useful help EXAMPLE SEARCH: Search for articles on the LUAS light railway system which have appeared in the British broadsheets during the past five years a. Select the UK Broadsheets file.

B. Type “luas” in the Search Terms box. Select “in the Headline” option from the drop down menu.

c. Select “previous 5 years” option from time limit options. d. Click on Search button.

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Your results now display:

EXAMPLE NEWSPAPER ARTICLE RECORD

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