WISER Social Sciences: News Resources for your Research



WISER Social Sciences: News Resources for your Research

gillian.beattie@ssl.ox.ac.uk

Nexis UK

Access via OxLIP+ (log in using SSO when off-campus).

To be able to save searches, set up alerts, etc. when working on campus, follow these steps:

1. Select Find e-Journal ( Other options

2. Choose Nexis UK News from the Vendor list and click on Go.

3. Click on any of the titles in the results list, then, in the new window under Full Text Options, click on Nexis UK News.

4. Enter your SSO details when prompted, and continue to Nexis.

Wildcards and truncation

Use an asterisk as a wildcard to replace a single character in the middle of a word: e.g. organi*ation will retrieve results with both ‘organisation’ and ‘organization’.

Use an exclamation mark for truncation to retrieve all endings of a root: e.g. politic! will pick up results with ‘politics’, ‘political’, ‘politicians’, etc.

Factiva

Access via OxLIP+ (log in using SSO when off-campus).

Wildcards and truncation

Use a question mark to replace a single character in the middle of a word: e.g. organi?ation.

Use an asterisk for truncation to retrieve all endings of a root: e.g. politic*.

Proximity operators

same – to specify that terms must appear in the same paragraph. E.g. blair same europe.

w/5 – to specify that terms must appear within 5 (or another number of your choice) words of one another and in the order in which you entered them. E.g. president w/3 obama.

near5 - to specify that terms must appear within 5 (or another number of your choice) words of one another, but in any order. E.g. recession near10 banks.

Headlines

Go to News Pages ( Factiva Pages to see the day’s headlines from the main UK broadsheets, plus the Wall Street Journal and the Economist.

Times Digital Archive

Access via OxLIP+ (log in using SSO when off-campus).

ProQuest Newspapers

Access via OxLIP+ (log in using SSO when off-campus).

Place terms in quotation marks to search for them as an exact phrase.

Wildcards and truncation

Use a question mark to replace a single character in the middle of a word: e.g. organi?ation.

Use an asterisk for truncation to retrieve all endings of a root: e.g. politic*.

Blog search engines

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