Bodleian Social Science Library

Hilary Term, 2011

Graduate search clinics

Newspapers and analysis: tools for researching global affairsMark Janes, Social Sciences Subject Consultant

News and Analysis

Overview

News databases

Historical newspapers

Non-Western sources

New/multi media

Databases for analysis/reports

News and Analysis

Some uses of news sources for research: Source of factual information especially when official

documents are not easily accessible

Major event analysis

News and political communication/democratic change

Media studies: bias, media control, and regulation

Zeitgeist and public opinion

Newspaper readership and political/class/social status

Geographic and historical comparisons

Changing news technologies

News and Analysis

News and Analysis

News and Analysis

News and Analysis

News and Analysis

News and Analysis

News databases

Factiva

28,000 sources from more than 200 countries

Advanced search by source

Daily global news pages

Source/area/industry search

Language support

Market data

Limited simultaneous users

News databases

News databases

24,000 news, trade and references sources

163 countries

Search by source, topic, country

BBC Worldwide Monitoring

Company profiles

Industry news

Biographies

UK legal cases

Historical Newspapers

19th Century British Library Newspapers Illustrated London News Proquest Historical Newspapers

Guardian and The Observer (1791- 2003) Irish Times (1859-2009) New York Times (1851 - 2007) Scotsman (1817-1950) Washington Post (1877 - 1994)

Times Digital Archive Economist Archive Financial Times Archive FBIS (1974-1996) Annual Register

Non-Western resources

Nexis UK, Factiva,World News Connection BBC Worldwide Monitoring Foreign Broadcast Information Service EMIS (Emerging Markets Information Service) Balkan Insight India: Times of India archive Russia: Pravda archive, Eastview Russian Central Newspapers Japan: Nikkei, Asahi Shimbun China:

China Core Newspapers Database (CNKI) People's Daily 1946-present  人民日报 PLA Daily  解放军报 WiseSearch (Wisers 慧科 )

New media

http://web.archive.org/

News video archives

New media

Databases for Analysis

Analysis (global affairs)

Oxford Analytica (90 day embargo) Country reports (via Business Source Complete) Nexis UK (via Countries) Proquest (ABI/Inform Global) Armed Conflict Database Columbia International Affairs Online

Databases for analysis (finance)

Financial/business news sources FT.com Economist (via ABI/Inform) Economist Archive RGE Monitor ABI/Inform Emerging Markets Information Service (EMIS) Business Source Complete Factiva Nexis UK