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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