GOOGLE ADVANCED NEWS SEARCH

Go to Google's Advanced News Search now.

• Choose time frame (anytime to specific time span)
• Enter search terms
• choose publication / country (optional)
• Sort by Relevance (default) or Sort by Date

• Section of newspaper would indicated either via highlighting or other text
  
   
• A News Alert can be created in Google News saving the search and allowing for easy monitoring of new items on your topic -- anything new can be automatically sent to user's email.

Browse Google News by Section
eg./ GOOGLE NEWS CANADA - BUSINESS

KEYWORD SEARCHES ON DATABASES / ARCHIVES

• Choose database(s) -- Newspaper or Current Events type
• Type topic under preferred field (eg. Subject)
• Use the correct Boolean logic (how keywords are combined)
  (eg./ (...) to group) as needed. Some databases default to phrase search while others may default to an AND search.

• The operators AND, OR, NOT are selected via their appropriate boxes
  or
• they may be inserted as part of a search string -- when using the operators as part of the search string, type the operator in upper case.

eg./

MAGAZINE, NEWSPAPER & JOURNAL DATABASES

• Select preferred package of databases:
  from our YRDSB list of packages or directly from
    - InfoTrac by Thomson / Gale (Home access requires password)
     - Ebscohost's Canadian Points of View
   - or -
              from Vaughan Public Libraries - Online Databases (VPL membership required)

• Select appropriate database(s) within preferred package (choose newspaper and/or current events type database(s) for NEWS articles)

• Choose "Advanced Search" tab

• Ensure Fulltext selected

• type keyword(s):

  • combine keywords needed with AND operator

  • search most important keywords in Subject field (or broaden search to default fields if necessary)

  • use truncation as required

  • cluster similar concepts if necessary to optimize on line limitations

  • check assigned subject headings of highly relevant articles for alternate keywords

  • no one perfect strategy -- play around for the one that works best for given search

• Sort by DATE

Infotrac articles may be emailed directly to user

Articles from Newspapers databases will show section of newspaper in which article is printed (eg/ Editorial, etc.)

BROWSING THE MAGAZINE, NEWSPAPER AND JOURNAL DATABASES / ARCHIVES
(our examples below are from Ebscohost)

Select preferred package of databases from below (InfoTrac, etc.)   Select appropriate single database within preferred package (choose a newspaper and/or current events type database for NEWS articles)   Click on Publications	Browse publications: alphabetically, by subject, or via keyword
Choose desired publication to browse	Choose specific issue for all contents of that issue   May 2009 opens to