<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Melissa Belvadi</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Aiello, Helen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:haiello@wesleyan.edu" target="_blank">haiello@wesleyan.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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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?<u></u><u></u></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.<u></u><u></u></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.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for your help on this….<u></u><u></u></p>
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Helen M. Aiello, Acquisitions and E-Resources Librarian <br>
Wesleyan University Library <br>
Middletown, CT 06459-9299 <br>
Voice: <a href="tel:%28860%29%20685-3828" value="+18606853828" target="_blank">(860) 685-3828</a> <u></u><u></u></p>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Melissa Belvadi</div><div>Collections Librarian</div><div>University of Prince Edward Island</div><div><a href="mailto:mbelvadi@upei.ca" target="_blank">mbelvadi@upei.ca</a> 902-566-0581</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>
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