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Library and Learning Services

How to find Newspaper articles on Nexis and FT.com

Why read Newspaper articles? Provides current / historical opinion on a

topic, event, company or person– a snapshot Can be used to show media hype or bias in

relation to a person or event Newspapers are not subject to the same

checks as journal articles –watch for bias Awareness of current events and how this

relates to your business modules - you may be ask to comment on real events based on your studies

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Why read the trade press

Less academic and theory based – shows the practical side of applications and theories.

Keeping up to date with latest ideas and techniques

Awareness of what is happening right now in that sector or industry.

What are the key issues affecting them? Key changes in strategy of companies

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How to find Newspaper articles on Nexis and FT.com

Body text…Log onto NORA with your computer username and passwordin the title

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FT.com Financial Times

Key business newspaper Only covers the FT (Financial Times)

access to the most recent five years via the FT.com.

Access from 1982 to the present via Nexis UK

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Body text…Click on Search Subjectse

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Click on the link to access FT.comt

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FT.com Flash demo

https://www.ftlatest.com/searchdemo/default.asp?source=3

Explains key features of the website Start at Number 1 only takes 5

minutes. If this does not work see the next 3

slides for help

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Read todays news or type in keywords to look for a specific article or topic

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Refine your search by changing the dateYou can also target articles by people or companiesOr you could add more search terms and rerun the search again

Click on a headline to read the full text of the article.

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Print or email or bookmark the article. If you intend to use this for an assignment note the day you accessed the article and the URL as this is part of your reference

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Searching the FT via Nexis

It can be a little tricky to find the FT in Nexis. Follow these instructions if you want to search the FT in Nexis

http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/static/5007/llspdf/ftvianora.pdf

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Nexis UK

Key UK quality newspapers eg Guardian, The Times, The Independent, The Telegraph, Sunday Business etc.

International press eg Le Monde, Washington Post, South China Morning Post

Trade press / practitioner press eg Caterer and Hotelkeeper, Marketing, Investors Chronicle, Personnel Today

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Click on the link to access Nexis

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4. If possible choose a date range to narrow down your search

1. Choose your search terms and where in the article they are found.

3. Click on the drop down menu to choose ‘sets’ of publications Click on the ‘I’ to see the criteria of the ‘set’ and a full list of all the publications

5. Lastly Click on ‘search’

2. Combine the search terms

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Edit your search eg add or change keywords

Group results together eg by publication

Click on article to see full text

Resort your results eg date or relevance

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Print, Email or Save the article

Number of results found and the article number you are viewing

View more or less of the article

Words which match your search terms are marked in red

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Article Indexing information – useful to pick up other search terms to use. Percentage indicates the amount the article is about these terms

Words which match your search terms are marked in red

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Other resources for news

Click on the ‘All resources’ tab

Click on the ‘News Services and Newspapers category on the left

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Now try it out for yourself!•All the resources are accessible via NORA http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/library

Remember if you have any problems:

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