ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times
2003; American Library Association; Volume: 42; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
2163-5242
Autores Tópico(s)Open Education and E-Learning
ResumoProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times. Ann Arbor, Mich.: ProQuest Information Learning, 2002. www.il.proquest.com. Pricing based on FTE for academic libraries population served for public libraries. Libraries either subscribe to the entire database pay an annual fee or purchase the out-of-copyright years 1851-1925 subscribe to the remaining time period. The database covers the years 1851-1999. Speak to a ProQuest representative for further pricing information. Requirements: At least a 486/66 MHz PC with 8 MB RAM an Internet connection at 28.8 Kbps or greater. The minimum browser version supported is Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.x or Netscape 4.08. Internet Explorer version 5.0 or higher or Netscape 4.5 or higher are recommended for best performance. Netscape Navigator 6.0 is not supported at all. To access the database with a Macintosh, use OS 8.6 or higher with Netscape 4.x or higher or Internet Explorer 5.x or higher. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times is a remarkable product because of both the completeness of coverage the powerful search interface. ProQuest has fully digitized the complete back file (1851-1999) of The New York Times as part of its Historical Newspapers series. The New York Times includes three million pages more than twenty-five million articles covering 148 years of history. This is a cover-to-cover digitization of the entire newspaper, including all news articles, editorials, obituaries, marriage birth announcements, reviews, advertisements. The entire database is searchable using ProQuest software. In many cases this digitization of the microfilm has produced better quality copy than the microfilm original. One can view either a specific article, or the entire which is a wonderful feature if one wants to understand what else was happening on that day or how important an was based upon page placement. Viewing a specific will always include the entire including accompanying graphics parts of the that might continue on to other pages. From the map of the whole one can point click on one element of the page isolate just that item to view. Users can also the complete image of any page in any issue or even browse the database scan individual issues page by page There are three search methods: Basic, Guided, Issue(s). search methods allow limiting by date--a very important feature for historical research. In January 2003 ProQuest upgraded the search screens software, which has greatly improved this database. The search screens help information are now unique to The New York Times not, as previously, generic to all ProQuest databases. Keyword searching in the search assumes phrase searching if two words are used; the system defaults to and with three or more words. Quotation marks should be used for phrases of more than two words. Basic search allows the user to search either through the entire which is the default, or limit searches to citation abstract. The abstract is actually the first few sentences of an article. ProQuest is assuming that with traditional newspaper writing, the first few sentences summarize the entire provide key information. Guided search provides a template allowing the searcher to specify a search to: All basic search fields, abstract, article title, author, article text, publication name. In addition, one may also limit by Article Type, such as classified ad, editorial cartoon, display ad, front page, legal notice, letter, review, stock quote, more. One unfortunate Article Type choice merges obituaries, marriages, birth notices. There is no way to limit searches to any one type. This leads to huge numbers of hits when one searches by common names. The final unique method of searching is by issue. …
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