1. Locating News Resources
28 Feb 2017

2. Outline Mastering E-newspapers Factiva
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: South China Morning Post ( )
South China Morning Post
WiseNews
Hong Kong Education News Clippings
Other Newspapers Resources 2

3. Introduction: Newspapers in the Library
Back issues of newspapers in hard copies (2/F):
Print copies of HK newspapers are kept in the Library for the latest 2 months
Microform format (3/F):
Ming Pao Daily News 明報 ( )
Sing Tao Daily 星島日報 ( )
South China Morning Post 南華早報 ( )
The Standard 英文虎報 ( )
News clippings (Bound Serials, 2/F):
Hong Kong newspaper clippings index ( )
Hong Kong newspaper clippings ( ) 3

4. Factiva: How to Access
EdUHK Library Homepage > E-Resources > E-Newspapers > OR
E-Resources > Browse E-Resources by Subject > News 4

5. Basic Search Commands: Words in a Specific field
Search by source title: use sn (source name) to locate articles from Journal of Youth and Adolescence.
Other useful commands: hd (headline), by (author), wc (word count), etc. 5

6. Free Text Search, e.g. “health care reform” + latest year + Greater China
Enter your search term(s) in Free Text Search box
Click the arrow to expand the menu from each category 6

7. Refine your search 7

8. Email, print or save the article
Listen to the article or have it translated into another language 8

9. Browse other related articles9

10. Online help provided by Factiva10

11. Try Yourself: Hands-on
Search for all of the articles from The Times Literary Supplement in the last 3 months
Locate an article, namely, “High stakes for high-speed rail”, written by Eddie Lee and then check with the Related Articles option to get similar articles 11

12. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: South China Morning Post (1903-1997)
Coverage:
With searchable, full text coverage from South China Morning Post’s origin in 1903 up to and including 1997, users will be able to search the entirety of the newspaper including advertisements, editorials, cartoons, and photographs that illuminate history as much as the news articles. 12

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14. Search for news articles on mother tongue education from 1904 to 199714

15. Print / download the article15

16. Browse other articles from the same issue16

17. Try Yourself: Hands-on
Use the Advanced Search option to check with the editorial of South China Morning Post on 28 Feb 1917
Find out the full text coverage of South China Sunday Post - Herald in the database 17

18. SCMP (ePaper edition)
Read issues from the last 7 days with ePaper archive
Download the PDF and read offline on desktop or tablet 18

19. SCMP (SCMP.com) http://www.lib.eduhk.hk/cgi-bin/WAMConnMgr?sid=scmp
20-year news archive
Analysis of results in different sections & related keywords are provided
Example: search for “electronic road pricing” 19

20. Share the Article on Social Media20

21. How to Access to WiseNews
EdUHK Library Homepage > E-Resources > E-Newspapers > WiseNews OR
Quicklinks > WiseNews / WiseSearch 21

22. Browsing News About EdUHK
Enter the search interface
Default mode allows you to browse EdUHK news
Select a period (2000-)
Click the headline to view the full text
Sorting options: relevancy, date, source 22

23. Browsing News on Other Topics2 3 1 23

24. Search via WiseSearch
Type search term(s) into the keyword box (Support Boolean search)
Specify source(s) or date range to be searched. The date range can be set up to 5 years
Use longer keywords or the thesaurus option to improve a search
Select the Databases for searching:
a. WiseSearch - Covers leading local newspapers and publications
b. WiseSearch Pro - Covers local and international sources, including China, Macau, Taiwan, etc. 24

25. Search Tips 25

26. Search Result Page
Narrow down the search by input of additional terms
To print, download or a batch of articles. A maximum of 300 records can be exported per action.
Choose Edit Search to change search criteria 26

27. Export: Max 300 documents per download / email / print
Download format:
RTF, HTML, Text, PDF 27

28. Modify the Search in a Record
Find more related articles or other articles on the same page
Directly highlight another term from the article and click this button to initiate another search 28

29. Hong Kong Education News Clippings
Year Coverage:
Publications: Commercial Daily, Hong Kong Economic Times, Oriental Daily News, etc.
Format of the original full text: PDF format 29

30. How to Access and Search
EdUHK Library Homepage > E-Resources > E-Newspapers
Select “Hong Kong Education News Clippings” 1 2 3 4 5 30

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32. Other E-Newspapers Websites
EdUHK Library Homepage > E-Resources > E-Newspapers
URLs are sorted by alphabet and country 32

33. Multimedia Information System of Hong Kong Public Libraries https://mmis.hkpl.gov.hk/
MMIS provides a rich collection of digitized format of materials on microfilms, clippings, maps, posters, house programmes etc.
The Old Hong Kong Newspapers Collection is a selective collection of major old Hong Kong Newspapers published from early Hong Kong to nowadays, aiming at preserving historical news reporting of Hong Kong for reference and research.  33

34. Coverage of the Old HK Newspapers34

35. View all items by title 35

36. Example : search with keywords 母語教學36

37. Share the Article on Social Media37

38. Browse the news on this day in history
MMIS Home Page 38

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