MRC ADVANCED RESEARCH SKILLS

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Advanced Research Skills Series

NewsBank Access UK & Ireland

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Advanced Research Skills SeriesAdvanced Research Skills Series

NewsBank Access UK & Ireland

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a full-text, web-based collection of some of the best-known newspapers, broadsheets, and tabloids from the United Kingdom and Ireland. The interface allows you to search a single newspaper, a group of newspapers, by country or region, or across the entire U.K. You can also browse a particular day’s issue from a single source.

Useful for....when you are looking for information about local government, business, education, sports, community & lifestyle, and entertainment, or searching for recipes, obituaries, editorials, or letters to the editor.

Use the quick link on the student homepage to find Oliver

You can search for your keyword(s) as normal and then

select alternative provider.

Or you can scroll down and find the quick link on the Oliver

Homepage (Column 2)

NewsBank How to Search

You can begin your search with a map of the U.K, use the check-box list to the left of the map to specify multiple locations or select a single country or region to search by clicking on the map. Use the Source Types and Source List tabs to choose the types of sources and specific titles to include in your search.

Users can search in specific fields of the articles (headline, author, etc.), use connectors to specify relationships between search terms and apply special limiters such as date and word count by using the drop-down lists built into the search form. Advanced users can also expand the search form by using the “Add Row” button to add extra search boxes for more complex search strategies.

The most basic search is simply to type a term or exact phrase (use quotation marks) into the first search box and click on the search button. You may also use multiple terms connected by the search operators AND, OR, NOT.

You can sort your results by: Newest First, Oldest First, or Best Matches First (the most relevant articles will appear first in your results list) using the drop-down “Sort by:” menu. You can choose a date by which to limit your search. The default search will include all available years, but you can click in the “Date” search box to choose from a list of pre-defined date limiters, such as “yesterday or today,” “past 7 days,” “past 6 months,” “past 5 years,” etc. Or, you can type in a specific date or range of dates, using a variety of date formats.

How to View Results by Year/Month, Location, Source, Source Type You can use the View Results tools to the left of the results list to display the articles from a specific year and month , a particular location, an individual newspaper or from a certain type of source material (such as newspapers).

How to Browse a Single Newspaper Title

Click on an individual newspaper title to enter the “Browse” mode. With Browse, you can click on a date from the Recent Issues list, use the Jump to Month drop-down to get a list of all available dates for a particular month or type any date you want in the Enter a Date box to bring up that day’s paper, organized alphabetically by headline (and section when available). From within an issue, you can click on a headline to see the text of that article, use the Quick Links to see all articles from a particular section, move from the current issue to the previous or next date, or click on “New Search” to search within the source you’ve chosen.