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Yesterday’s News – Today’s Research?
Christine Love-Rodgers
New College Librarian
Margaret Forrest
HCA Librarian
Innovative Learning Week

2.
Outline
• Library essentials
• Finding newspapers
– Library Databases A-Z
– eJournals Database
• Sample searches
• Prize quiz on using newspaper archives

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Library essentials

4.
A-Z of Library Databases

5.
Databases by subject
• Newspapers
• History

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Newspaper Archives
(In A-Z of Library Databases)
• 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 )

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Periodicals
• 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)

8.
Searching for newspapers in the
eJournals database

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

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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

11.
Finding the trials page

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Questions → Search
• 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? keyword Alternative? Alternative? Alternative?
• Identify the main Keywords (concepts) in the
statement and underline them
Disruption secession schism
How was the Disruption of the Church of Scotland on
Church of Scottish Scotch Church Kirk of Scotland
18 May 1843 , led by Thomas Chalmers, first
reported in the Press? Scotland Church
18 May 1843 General
• Think of alternatives and synonyms Assembly
1843 [event]
• Think of limits – time, language & geography Thomas Dr Chalmers Rev. Chalmers
Chalmers
• Choose your newspaper sources

13.
Question → Search
• State the information you want to
find: keywords Alternative
Trace the development of the 1959
film version of Ben Hur, and the
industry reception? Ben Hur Ben-Hur
• Think of alternatives and synonyms 1959
• Think of additional identifying words Charlton
e.g. main actor, director Heston
[actor]
• Think of limits – time, language & William Wyler
geography [director]
• Choose your newspaper resource

14.
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!

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christine.love-rodgers@ed.ac.uk
School of Divinity
margaret.forrest@ed.ac.uk
School of History, Classics and Archaeology