New to Newspapers?

Title: New to newspapers?

Date: 29/11/2012

Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Presenter: Linda Crane

Location: Taylor Room

Library: Sydney Jones Library

Registration: Registration is required for this event.

Description: Researchers, are you missing out on the benefits that searching contemporary newspapers could have on your work?

Based around two newspaper databases, but including other resources, this session will highlight what makes newspapers different from other material and the benefits and pitfalls for research.

This event relates to the Engagement, Influence and Impact and Knowledge and Intellectual Abilities domains of the Researcher Development Framework

TRIAL: The Sunday Times Digital Archive, 1822-2006

We have a trial of The Sunday Times Digital Archive, 1822-2006, until 14th June 2012.

To access this trial go to http://infotrac.galegroup.com.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/itweb/livuni?db=STHA.

In the nineteenth century, The Sunday Times had similar obsessions to much of the Victorian press, with extensive coverage of court cases, executions and grisly crimes to titillate its readers. However, it also developed a reputation for its considerable arts coverage, especially the London theatre and music scene.

In the twentieth century, the newspaper returned to its founding ethos of holding the powerful to account. In 1963, it formed the Insight Team, which became world famous for cutting-edge investigative journalism. The Insight Team broke many of the key stories of the twentieth century, including a decade-long campaign for the victims of thalidomide, the exposure of Kim Philby as a Soviet double agent (1st October 1967), and the revelations about the Israeli nuclear weapons programme (5th October 1986). Articles from the Insight Team have been categorized with the label "Insight" in the archive.

Despite the similarity of names, The Sunday Times was an entirely separate paper from The Times until 1st January 1967, when both papers came under the common ownership of Times Newspapers Ltd. To this day, The Sunday Times remains editorially independent from The Times, with its own remit and perspective on the news.

After trying  The Sunday Times Digital Archive, 1822-2006,  please leave your comments below. You can choose the anonymous option to comment without needing to have a Blogger account, but it helps if you include your name in your feedback so that we can follow up on comments.

Resource of the week: JISC Media Hub

What is it?

JISC MediaHub provides a single point of access to a collection of multimedia archives.
It enables cross-searching and exploration of sources such as the AP Archive, Getty Images, ITN, Design Council Archives, Imperial War Museum, Royal Geographical Society ,PYMCA,  NewsFilm Online from the ITN/Reuters archives, the complete Gaumont and Paramount newsreels, from 1910 and 1934 respectively, Film & Sound Online, Imperial War Museum, Wellcome Library and the Biochemical Society. The archive also includes over 50 hours of classical music recording from the Culverhouse collection.
JISC MediaHub also enables users to search and link out to external media collections such as the Open Video Project, Wellcome Images, ADS, ARKive and the First World War Poetry Archive.
It is fully searchable by collection, time, subject, place or learning materials.


Why use it?

There are any number of ways to use this resource, from simply searching for still or moving images to incorporate into assignments(most images can be used for educational purposes), to using individual collections for in-depth research.
Below is just a snapshot of some of the things you can do using JISCMediaHub.

• Search unrivalled collection of news footage, including some previously unbroadcast and unseen material, such as rushes and programme scripts. Silent cinema newsreels are also included.
• Explore a substantial selection of films charting the development of biochemistry in the later 20th century through the experiences of some of the subject's most celebrated practitioners.
• Explore a unique global initiative, gathering together into one centralised digital library, films, photographs and audio recordings of the world's species.
• Search for and share high quality archaeological images to enhance the learning experience of scholars, educators, lecturers and researchers within archaeology and its related disciplines.
• Search 5,900 images of contemporary youth culture. These images provide powerful documentation of changing fashions and lifestyles of young people, depicted at their finest (and worst).
• Explore documentaries and feature films from the Amber film-making collective established in the north-east of England in 1968. Of interest to students, teachers and researchers in the fields of media studies and of UK political and social history in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

If you would like more information regarding this resource, please contact the Liaison Librarian for your subject.

TRIAL: Rock's Backpages

We have a trial of Rock's Backpages until 10th October 2011.

To access this trial go to http://www.rocksbackpages.com/. For off-campus access use Apps Anywhere (IE8 or IE9 in the Web or Office folders). If we subscribe we will arrange access through EZproxy as normal.

Rock's Backpages is the biggest online database of rock music writing in the world. Sourced from the pages of the music and mainstream press, it is a massive library of articles (reviews, interviews, features and more) from the early 1960s up to the present day.

There are nearly 20,000 articles on the site and around 300 audio interviews. They feature over 2,500 artists and range from 500-word album (or concert) reviews to 10,000-word interviews and features. The articles are full text and fully searchable (by artist, date, genre, keyword etc.).They are taken from the widest possible range of publications in the US and UK: from Creem and Trouser Press to Rolling Stone, and from New Musical Express and Melody Maker to MOJO.

The library includes previously unpublished pieces about The Beatles (by Michael Lydon in 1966), The Doors (by Lester Bangs in 1975), and seminal interviews with major artists from Bob Dylan to Radiohead.
The library is currently increasing in size by approximately 50 new articles a week.

All the material in the database is presented with the full agreement and permission of the copyright holders – freelance writers and journalists – or of their estates, and the vast majority of this material is exclusive to Rock’s Backpages for online distribution.

After trying Rock's Backpages please leave your comments below. You can choose the anonymous option to comment without needing to have a Blogger account, but it helps if you include your name in your feedback so that we can follow up on comments.