[Eril-l] Comparative reviews of current newspaper databases

[Melissa Belvadi]

Do you have a discovery service? I have heard, but not been able to verify
for myself, that Proquest's Summon system is very good at searching
newspapers, and you could probably configure a profile or custom link or
such that limited the search to newspapers. I'd actually like to hear from
Summon customers whether this is in fact true.

Melissa Belvadi

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Aiello, Helen <haiello at wesleyan.edu> wrote:

> Can anyone lead me to a recent article that may have done a comparative
> review(s) of current newspaper access databases?
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> I am not looking for individual newspaper titles (such as Gale or ProQuest
> newspapers) nor historical newspaper database (such as Readex products) but
> db such as
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> Newsbanks Access world news or ProQuest’s International newspapers or BBC
> Monitoring.
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> Access to current newspapers through factiva or Lexis Nexis seems to
> confound undergraduate users so we are considering, and investigating,
> whether offering a newspaper centric only resource might be a better path
> of access.
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> Thanks for your help on this….
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> Helen
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Melissa Belvadi
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University of Prince Edward Island
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