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This is a guide to help you find a newspaper/magazine/media article for analysis. It builds on InfoTrekk, which is a brief, general introduction to finding information and referencing.
The Library has Australian and international newspapers on Level 3. Newspapers are received daily, filed in green folders and kept for three months, until the microfilm versions arrive. Newspapers cannot be borrowed but you may photocopy the articles.
On Level 3, you can also browse the New Items Display for new issues of Business Review Weekly and other magazines and journals. Look at the shelf number on the issue you find. To find the previous issues, you will need to go to the same number on another floor, so check a Library floor plan for the exact location.
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Many Australian newspapers have their own websites with at least a selection of the current day’s articles freely available. You can search for newspaper titles on the Internet. Newspapers such as The Australian, The Australian Financial Review (the ‘finreview’) and The West Australian have free articles online for the current day, but some papers may ask you sign up for a trial.
A good site for finding newspapers and media links from around the world is:
ABYZ News Links
http://www.abyznewslinks.com/
To find articles on a topic, you can search databases subscribed to by the Library. Start by searching a full-text database where about 50% or more of the journal and newspaper articles are online. Among these databases are:
ABI-Inform Global (a Business database)
ProQuest (ABI's large, parent database which includes a range of other subject databases).
Business Source Premier (another large, international business database of journal and magazine articles).
The articles you find will mainly be from international sources and you will need to construct your search in a particular way. You must use the Boolean terms ‘and’ ‘or’ between your search terms. For example:
petroleum and prices
oil industry and prices
oil and prices and australia
gas and prices and australia
You can also limit your search to articles with a Date range e.g. on or after the 1st June 2007. Once you have a hitlist, you can click the Newspapers or Magazines tab to see only news articles, not articles from scholarly journals.
If you are having trouble using ABI-Inform Global or ProQuest, there is an online Step-by-Step Guide and View-it Tutorial to help you.
Factiva database
The Library also subscribes to the Factiva database. This has the full text of many Australian and international newspaper articles and is kept very current. However, only six people can use it at a time so you may have to try accessing it at different times.
You will also need to search it using the Boolean term ‘and’ between your search keywords. For example:
wheat and pricesYou can also look for articles published after a date by using the Date drop-down menu and adding in a date range.
wheat and prices and australia
Please look at the Factiva View-it Tutorial. You can limit your search to only Australian newspapers but this can be tricky, so the guide will show you how to do this.
Curtin Business School students must use the Chicago Author-Date referencing style. Check the Library's Referencing Resources page for a guide to this style.
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