We are pleased to announce trial access to two new newspaper archives until 31 December 2015. The links below give you access on campus. If you want to use them off-campus, you will need to use the Web Proxy Service.
UKPressOnline is offering a preview of its new interface, coming soon. Compare the two side by side and see how it has improved: New look UKPressOnline – preview (coming soon) UK PressOnline as it looks today (at time of writing)
We have bought lots of new e-resources for you this Spring and wanted to introduce them to you a few at a time. A full list is included on the Library news page if you are keen to get started using them …
New e-resources for you this Spring – newspapers Read more »
Newspapers document events and social trends, forming valuable sources of contemporary and historical opinion as well as a record of journalism styles and traditions over time. Our media collections have been recently expanded, so it is well worth taking a …
Churnalism is a term used to describe an article which is published as journalism but is in fact a cut and paste of a press release. Churnalism.com lets you paste text from a press release and then see which news organisation have …
And finally on this week’s theme we have The Onion, a site that received a Peabody Award for “providing ersatz news that has a worrisome ring of truth”. http://www.theonion.com
In a similar vein, this can be a helpful site: http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Wikileaks To be handled with care.
