Yesterday’s News – Today’s Research?

Christine Love-Rodgers

New College Librarian

Margaret Forrest

HCA Librarian

Innovative Learning Week

• Library essentials

• Finding newspapers– Library Databases A-Z– eJournals Database

• Sample searches

• Prize quiz on using newspaper archives

Outline

Library essentials

A-Z of Library Databases

Databases by subject

• Newspapers• History

• America’s Historical Newspapers (1736 to 1920)• Guardian and Observer Archive (1791-2003)

• National and local newspapers from LexisLibrary and Factiva (from 1980s)

• C19th British Library Newspapers• Scotsman Archive (1817 to 1950 )• Times Digital Archive (1785-1985)• Times of India (1838 to 2003)• New York Times (1851 to 2007) • North China Herald (1850-1940)• Washington Post (1877-1994 )

Newspaper Archives(In A-Z of Library Databases)

• British Periodicals (1680s to 1930s )

• Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals– e.g. Punch (London)

• Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive (from the era of vaudeville and silent movies through to 2000)

• Vogue Magazine (1892 to the present)

Periodicals

Searching for newspapers in the eJournals database

Check the year of publication of the article/period you require

Newspaper archives on trial at EU

• The Irish Times (1859-2011)• UK Press Online

– Daily Mirror (1903-1980)– Daily Express (1900- current)– Daily Star (1863-1889)

• Proquest Historical Jewish Newspapers

Finding the trials page

keyword Alternative? Alternative? Alternative?

Disruption secession schism

Church of Scotland

Scottish Church

Scotch Church Kirk of Scotland

18 May 1843

General Assembly 1843 [event]

Thomas Chalmers

Dr Chalmers Rev. Chalmers

• State the information you want to find:

How was the Disruption of the Church of Scotland on 18 May 1843, led by Thomas Chalmers, first reported in the Press?

• Identify the main Keywords (concepts) in the statement and underline them

How was the Disruption of the Church of Scotland on 18 May 1843 , led by Thomas Chalmers, first reported in the Press?

• Think of alternatives and synonyms

• Think of limits – time, language & geography

• Choose your newspaper sources

Questions → Search

keywords Alternative

Ben Hur Ben-Hur

1959

Charlton Heston[actor]

William Wyler [director]

• State the information you want to find:

Trace the development of the 1959 film version of Ben Hur, and the industry reception?

• Think of alternatives and synonyms

• Think of additional identifying words e.g. main actor, director

• Think of limits – time, language & geography

• Choose your newspaper resource

Question → Search

Quiz!

• Points are awarded for the name of the database/newspaper used to find the answer to questions, as well as the answer

• Ask for help (although you may lose a few points…)

• Answer the questions in any order

• Enjoy!

christine.love-rodgers@ed.ac.uk

School of Divinity

margaret.forrest@ed.ac.uk

School of History, Classics and Archaeology