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News Sources
Topics Covered
Internet Resources
ArtsJournal.com: The Daily Digest
of Arts, Culture and Ideas -- Headlines and news digests
from hundreds of newspapers. E-mail service available. Includes Arts
Journalism Links.
Licensed News Databases
iConn
Newsstand
-- provides full-text electronic access to the following newspapers:
Christian Science Monitor (1988 - )
Hartford Courant (1992 - )
Los Angeles Times (1988 - )
New York Times (1999 - )
Wall Street Journal (1984 - )
Washington Post (1987 - )
Works better in Internet Explorer (offers different menu choices
there).
New
York Times Historical
-- Full-image electronic archive of the entire historical run of The
New York Times; complete coverage from 1851-2000. Includes articles,
editorials, ads, comics and cartoons, photos, maps, graphics, etc.
LexisNexis
Academic Universe
-- Contains the full text of hundreds of newspapers nationwide and
internationally. Includes articles, wire reports, book and
performance reviews, obituaries, television and radio news broadcast
transcripts, and popular-press magazines. Use the News, Business,
or Reference menus to search for information on artists or groups,
concert and record reviews, and information on the music industry.
Here is information on Searching
Academic Universe (PDF).
LexisNexis Search Tips:
If you use the Guided Search, you will need to select search categories
(e.g., General
News or Arts & Sports). Try
several different categories, as each retrieves different materials.
In the Guided Search you need to type "and" (without
quotes) between each search term (e.g., connecticut and repertory
and theatre). Experiment.
To find New York Times theater articles or reviews, go to
General News, type "new york times" (without quotes)
in the Publication Title box, and type "theater"
or "theater arts" in the Search For box, with
Headline as the search type ("search in"). Select
a date range.
There are some differences between LexisNexis Academic Universe
(one of UConn's subscription resources) and the free New
York Times website (http://www.nytimes.com).
(These comments are based on a few quick and dirty test searches,
and may have been affected by outside factors. Please do your
own comparisons and judge for yourself.) LexisNexis (LN) and other
similar subscription resources search several newspapers at once
and may have better date coverage (copyright issues not withstanding).
This librarian had many more hits in LN. Search speed may vary.
This librarian found LN to be faster. Either source seems fine
for recent articles. However, check sites carefully for retrospective
coverage. For example, the NYT web site says that "articles
from the past 7 days are free, as are book and movie reviews." If
you need older reviews (and often you will), this web site may
not meet your needs. This librarian did not pull up a 1999 test
article in NYT web, even using several strategies. It was listed
in LN.
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Older Paper Newspapers (Finding Aids)
Hartford
Courant (PDF) -- Identifies indexes and newspaper locations
in the library.
Newspapers
(PDF) -- Explains local collection and includes links to online indexes
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