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<p class="MsoNormal">Can anyone lead me to a recent article that may have done a comparative review(s) of current newspaper access databases?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Newsbanks Access world news or ProQuest’s International newspapers or BBC Monitoring.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for your help on this….<o:p></o:p></p>
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Helen <o:p></o:p></p>
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Helen M. Aiello, Acquisitions and E-Resources Librarian <br>
Wesleyan University Library <br>
Middletown, CT 06459-9299 <br>
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