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NewsBank, inc. Presents

Getting the most out of Access World News

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Access World News gives you the ability to search thousands of news sources from across the United States and around the world. (Note: the specific sources available to you will depend on your NewsBank subscription.) With NewsBank’s intuitive interface, you can enter simple or complex searches, sort your results, and view and email the full text of any story.

In addition to a wealth of standard features, you can set up several customizable tools to suit your research needs. To use them, you must first create a Personal Account, which requires a secondary login available to you alone. However, you don’t need a Personal Account to simply search and retrieve results.

The features that become available when you set up and log in to your Personal Account include saved email lists, searches, articles and custom source lists, as well as email alerts for topics of your choice, delivered automatically to your inbox every day.

Tutorial Overview


Access World News enables all users to easily search for articles, retrieve results and view the wealth of content available only through NewsBank.

If you also want access to the customizable features, as well, you can set up a Personal Account to which only you have access.


Once you log in to your Personal Account, you can access powerful tools and customize them to meet your needs.

For example, you can set up Email Alerts to be delivered automatically every day, right to your inbox...


You can create Email Address Lists for easy online distribution of important articles...


You can design strategic Saved Searches to use any time on an “as-needed” basis...


And you can save important articles by filing them in folders that you create and name.


All users, with or without a Personal Account, can search the Access World News database for news articles on people, topics, issues and events.


You can search a single newspaper within the database...

You can search by state...


You can search across an entire region with a single click...


You can search across nearly 2,000 titles from throughout the United States...


Or you can search over 3,000 news sources from around the world.

The following tutorial details several effective techniques to help you get the most out of Access World News. It also offers tips to help you find exactly what you’re looking for.


You’ll learn to: Select sources by Location, Source Typ

e and from the Source List

Conduct research on a person, company or organization

View Results by Year/Month, Location, Source and Source Type

Create a Custom List of sources to search

Set up an Email Alert

Create an Email Address List

Save a search

Save and send articles

Browse a specific newspaper by date

Click on a specific topic to go to it directly, or simply click outside the topics to continue the slideshow.

Select Sources by Location, Source Type and from the Source List

To find news and perspectives on topics, people, issues and events, you can use the source selection tabs and the map to expand or narrow your search. You can:

• Narrow your search from the entire world to specific countries or regions

• Use the map to see a list of all sources from a specific country or region

• Choose specific sources by name from the Source List tab

• Use the Source Types tab to choose what kinds of sources to include in your search

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1. When you first enter Access World News, the default setting is most likely all U.S. sources. To expand your search to all titles worldwide, simply click on “The World” in the breadcrumb trail.

2. Or, use one of the search Shortcuts to go directly to a predefined set of sources.


3. To narrow your search, check the boxes on the left for the states you want to include. You can also select a whole region with a single click on the map.


4. Or, click the name of a state in the list or its image on the map to get a list of all available sources from that state.

5. In this example, we clicked on Texas on the map. Notice the switch to the Source List tab to display the list of all available sources from Texas.

6. Check the boxes for the specific sources you want to search or click on the title to search within a single source.


Tip: For the greatest possible number of results, search the entire world. You can easily narrow your displayed results after you run your search.

7. Here, we’ve clicked on The Dallas Morning News. Conducting a search from here will search only within this title.

8. To expand your search back to a broader range of sources, you can use the links in the breadcrumb trail.


9. You can also use the Source Types tab to choose the types of sources that you want to include in your search. Check or uncheck the boxes to include or exclude a specific Source Type.


For example, you can research:• USDA

• Congressional Budget Office

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

• John Squires

• Robert Mueller

• Aramark

• Lucent Technologies

Research a person, company or organization


1. In this example, search the entire U.S. for CBO or “Congressional Budget Office.” This ensures that either the term CBO or the full tern “Congressional Budget Office” will appear in the articles.

2. Choose a timeframe from the drop-down menu. For example, select “the past 3 months” to see recent articles.

3. Click “Search” to get your results.


4. If you have a Personal Account and this search yields the results you want, you can save it or create an Email Alert by clicking on the respective links.

Note: If you have not already created or logged into your Personal Account, the system will prompt you to do so when you click on a link for which a Personal Account is required.

Tip: Set your results display to Keyword-in-Context to see how your search terms appear in the text of the articles.


In another example, let’s expand our sources to the entire world and try a fielded search.

2. Choose “Lead/First Paragraph” from the second drop-down and type tuberculosis or papilloma in the second search box.

3. Click on the “Add Row” button to create another row on the search form for a custom date: April 2008.

4. Click “Search” to get your results.

1. Using the first drop-down list, choose the “Headline” field and type vaccine in the first search box.


6. Clicking on a headline will bring up the full text of an article.

5. The results are now highly targeted to include only articles with your specific search criteria.


7. Note the bolded search terms within the text of the article.

Tip: At any time, you can click on the “Edit Search” link to modify and re-run your search. Or, use the “New Search” link for a new, blank search form.

8. From within the full-text display, you can email an article to any email address, including—if you have a Personal Account—addresses on an Email Address List. Click here to go t

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Once you’ve run a search, you can move from page to page of results by clicking on the numbered page links at the bottom of the screen, or by using the Previous and Next links.

You can set the Article Preview to First Paragraph, Keyword-in-Context, or Headline Only.

You can also set the number of results per page – 10, 25 or 50.


From within the full-text article display, you can move from article to article using the Previous and Next links.

If you have a Personal Account, you can also save the article to a folder for future use.


View Results by Year/Month, Location, Source, and Source Type

After performing a basic search, you can sort and display your results according to:

• Year/Month• Location• Source• Source Type


1. To perform a basic search, type a term related to your topic of interest into the first search box. For example, immigration.

2. Click “Search” to get your results list.


If there are too many hits, you can quickly and easily narrow your search results without having to modify your search.

Use the View Results tools on the left side of your results list to see the results from a specific Year, Location, Source, and Source Type.

1. For example, click on 2007 to see the results from that year.


2. Let’s further narrow the displayed results to November 2007.

Your display changes automatically to reflect your View Results selection, in this case 2007.


3. Now let’s choose a Location, for example Europe/UK.

Again, your display will refresh to reflect your new selection, in this case November 2007.


4. We can continue to narrow our displayed results. Click on the View X more link in the by Source section and choose The Birmingham Post from England.

The new display reflects all of our selections so far – 2007, November, Europe/UK.


With only a few clicks, we have narrowed our results from over one million hits to a tightly focused group of articles with a specific local perspective.

5. At any time, you can use the drop-down list and the breadcrumb trail links to change the set of results that you are displaying and move back up through your complete results set.


Create a Custom List of sources to search

Anyone can create a custom list of sources to search within a single session. However, a user with a Personal Account can create Custom Lists of specific sources and save them for later use.

Access World News enables users with Personal Accounts to create multiple Custom Lists, name them appropriately, edit them as needed and use them from session to session — even for automatic Email Alerts.


1. To save a Custom List of specific locations and titles from around the world, first use the expandable list to select the regions, countries and states you want to include.

Use the “+” box to get an expanded locations list for the region.

Check any box to select the entire region.


2. After choosing the locations to include in your Custom List, you can click on the Source List tab to select specific titles.

The Source List will display only sources from the locations that you chose.


3. For example, if your company or organization had offices in Glasgow, Scotland and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, you could choose titles from those two cities.


4. Once you’ve selected specific titles, click “Add to Shortcuts” in the Custom List box at the top of the tab.

5. Type a name for your new Custom List and click “Save!”

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6. After you have named and saved your new Custom List, it will appear as one of your Shortcuts.

You can create as many Custom Lists as you’d like by simply repeating this process and giving each list a unique name. You can also edit an existing list or delete a list once you no longer need it.


Set up an Email Alert

One of the most convenient features of an Access World News Personal Account is Email Alerts. Through this feature, your designated search(es) will be automatically run every day, and the results will be delivered to you via email on a daily or weekly basis.

Email Alerts are flexible. You can set them up and forget about them — simply use the news as it is delivered to your inbox. You can also add to, modify or delete them to fit your needs.


1. To set up an Email Alert, first create and run your search.

In this example, we searched for articles from the business section with the terms FedEx or “Federal Express” in the headline. The search was executed in Major Metropolitan Newspapers around the United States.

2. After verifying that the search is producing the kind of results you need, simply click on the “Create Email Alert” link above the results list.


3. On the Email Alerts setup page, you can choose the frequency of the alert (multiple times per day, once a day, once a week) and enter the email address(es) to which the information should be sent.

4. Once you have completed the information on the setup page, just click on “Begin Alert.” Within the next 24 to 48 hours, your email alerts will commence.

Type email addresses here, or click on your address lists to the right.


5. As they arrive in your inbox, Email Alerts will be identified as coming from “NewsBank Email Updates” and will have your search terms in the subject line.

Note: The specific display details will vary slightly depending on your email application.


To run an Email Alert search manually, click on its respective link.

Back in Access World News, you can access your Email Alerts by clicking on the link in the upper-right portion of your display window.

Use the “Edit” link to make changes to your Alert. Or, click the delete link to remove the Alert when you no longer need it. Click here to go t

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Create an Email Address List

To make emailing articles and alerts even easier, a Personal Account enables you to create and maintain Email Address Lists for the people and groups to whom you regularly send information.

To set up an Email Address List, the email addresses only have to be entered once. You can then send articles to everyone on your list with a single click. Your Personal Account provides Email Address List editing to enable you to easily add, modify or remove addresses from your list(s).


1. Type a name for your new list.

2. Type the email addresses for the primary recipients.

3. Type email addresses for any additional recipients you want to include.

4. Click “Save Changes.”

To create an Email Address List, simply click on the “Email Lists” link in the upper-right portion of your display window at any time.


Email Address Lists may contain one or more names, and you can create as many lists as you want.

You can also edit or delete the lists, as needed.


Save a search

Access World News’ Personal Accounts feature enables you to create simple or complex search strategies and save them to run quickly and easily whenever you need them.

When creating a search strategy, consider: Which terms you want to search for The sources you want to search The sort order Date limiters


1. Here, we have created a search for education NEAR5 legislation NEAR5 funding. The search is running in the State Capital Newspapers.

For example, you may want to find articles on legislation that affects funding for education.

2. Once you have run your search and verified that it gives you well-targeted results, simply click on “Save this Search” above the results list.


Tip: NEAR[x] will find articles in which the search terms appear within x words of each other, in any order

3. Your new search strategy will be added to your list of Saved Searches.

You can lick on a link in your Saved Searches list to run a saved search whenever you need it.


Save and send articles

While viewing your search results, there are several special features that you can use to process the articles you find there:

You can save articles to your customized file folders You can send articles to people who need to read them


From the results list, you can save an article simply by checking the box to the left of the headline. The article will automatically be put in your [To be Filed] folder.


Or, while viewing the article, you can save it by checking the “Save this Article” box.

Tip: You can access your saved articles by clicking the “Saved Articles” link in the upper-right portion of your display window.

You can also email the article directly to any email address, including those from your Email Address Lists.


1. Within the “Saved Articles” folders, you can view an article by clicking on its headline.

2. You also can file articles to previously named folders...

4. Email an article or set of articles to anyone...

5. Export bibliographic information for your articles...

6. And print hard copies.

3. Delete articles from your folders when you no longer need them...


1. To file articles into your folders, first select the articles by checking the box to the left of the headline.

2. Then, click on the “File Selected Articles” tool in the toolbox, and check the box for the folder in which you want to file the articles.

3. Click the “Move Articles” button.

Tip: You can set up and name folders using the “Add Folder” button at the top of the folders list, or create them on the fly as you’re filing.


Browse a specific newspaper by date

For example:• You remember reading a local article about how the Dallas-Fort

Worth metropolitan area has been affected by the economic downturn of early 2008.

• You know the article appeared in the Dallas Morning News.

• You recall that the article was published on May 4th, 2008.

Note: The sources available to you will depend on your NewsBank subscription.


1. To browse a single title by date, first select a single newspaper. In this example, we’ve selected the Dallas Morning News.


2. If the date you want appears in the “Recent Issues” list, just click on it.

If the date you want does not appear in the “Recent Issues” list, use the “Enter a Date” box to type in any date you want. Or, use the “Jump to Month” drop down to choose from a complete list of all available dates.

Note: Browse features are available only if a single newspaper is selected.


3. Use the “Previous” and “Next” links to move from issue to issue. You can also use the “Date list” link or the “Enter a Date” box to choose an entirely new date.

Tip: Section labels, if included by the provider, match those in the newspaper’s hardcopy edition.

4. If you see the article you wish to view, simply click on its headline.


5. The full text of the article comes up for you to browse. Note that the headline, paper title, date and author are all provided.


Tip: At the bottom of each article is more information on the edition, section, page and copyright.

Tip: OpenURL links at the end of each article enable you to link to an article in an email, which can be sent to a colleague or a client. Also, each article has a MARC Record Number so it can be uniquely identified.

6. Use the Previous and Next links at the top and bottom of the page to move from article to article.

7. Click on “Back to Issue” to return to the list of headlines for the date you’re browsing.


Access World News with Personal Accounts

• Create and save effective search strategies for Saved Searches and automatic Email Alerts

• Create time-saving Email Address Lists for easy distribution of important articles

• Define named file folders for saving articles of interest

• Use the View Results and sorting tools after you search to narrow and focus your displayed results

We hope this tutorial has helped you understand some of the techniques and strategies that can make your research more successful and convenient.

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