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TU Libraries now has access to PressDisplay!

Visually stunning, PressDisplay provides online access to today's leading newspapers and magazines from around the world, presented in their traditional format and layout. 

With more than 650 print publications from 76 countries and in 38 languages, PressDisplay is an indispensable news source for anyone who wants not only multiple perspectives on the news, but also to see the original print layout/format, including color images, editorial content, classifieds, and advertisements.

Be sure to check it out!  And thanks to those of you who trialed the database and gave us great feedback!  Your input made a difference!

The Science and Society Picture Library in South Kensington, London, represents images from the UK Science Museum; the National Museum of Photography, Film, and Television; the National Railway Museum.

The collections include 4000 personalities, the Daily Herald and Manchester Daily Express archives, the Kodak collection, the Photographic Advertising Archive, and the work of Julia Margaret Cameron, William Henry Fox Talbot and Tony Ray-Jones.

Check out the galleries for highlights of the collections or browse the main subjects by using detailed categories.

TU Libraries now has access to the journal, International Journal of Mobile Communications!

International Journal of Mobile Communications publishes articles that present current practice and theory of mobile communications, mobile technology, and mobile commerce applications. The international dimension is emphasized in order to meet the needs of accelerating technological change and changes in the global economy. 

TU Libraries now has access to Alternative Press Index Archives (1969-1990) which indexes roughly 290 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines reporting and analyzing the practices of cultural, economic, political and social change. 

The Archives can be searched simultaneously with Alternative Press Index (1991-present), providing increased coverage.

TU Libraries is currently trialing the database, BBC Monitoring Library.

BBC Monitoring Library reports news from state owned, independent and clandestine media sources in over 150 countries, in more than 100 languages to provide a distinctive and internationally respected news service.  BBC Monitoring operates around the clock, reporting on political and economic events that have an impact upon internal affairs, international relations, human rights and business.  News is translated in to English without additional analysis or editorial comment to ensure the impartiality and authority expected from the BBC.

The trial ends May 30th.  Let us know if this database would be useful to you in your research/projects!

Lexis-Nexis Academic recently released a new design.  While the display looks different, the functionality remains the same.  More information about the new interface is available here.

Lexis-Nexis Academic also recently expanded its foreign press coverage, including six new publications: Bundesanzeiger Zentralhandelsregister, Der Tagesspiegel, La Lettre A, Evening Herald (Ireland), J/M, and Der Standard.  More information about these news publications is available here.

TU Libraries now has access to Journalism Practice.

Journalism Practice is devoted to “the study and analysis of significant issues arising from journalism as a field of professional practice; relevant developments in journalism training and education, as well as the construction of a reflective curriculum for journalism; analysis of journalism practice across the distinctive but converging media platforms of magazines, newspapers, online, radio and television; and the provision of a public space for practice-led, scholarly contributions from journalists as well as academics.”  All contributions are refereed anonymously by acknowledged international experts in the field. 

The journal is also considered a companion to Journalism Studies, which we have access to via Communication & Mass Media Complete (2000 to 1 year ago).

Full-text articles published from 2007 to the present are currently available from this journal.

TU Libraries is currently trialing the newspaper database, PressDisplay.

PressDisplay provides digital, interactive replicas of more than 450 print newspapers and magazines, from 70 countries, in 37 languages, making it an indispensable news source for anyone who not only wants multiple perspectives on the news, but also wants to see the original print layout/format. 

A 'one-stop shop' for the world's most prestigious newspapers and magazines, including The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Daily Telegraph, and The Los Angeles Times, these publications may be viewed in their original format using a standard Web browser or through a BlackBerry, iPhone or smart mobile device. 

Users can search for the last 60 days worth of newspapers by country, language, or title and also perform keyword searches.  Articles may be printed, saved, or emailed for later use.  Articles from many foreign language publications can be instantly translated into one of several major foreign languages.

The trial lasts until April 11th and is password-based.  The password is "welcome."

Be sure to check PressDisplay out, and let me know if the Libraries should add it to its collection of eResources!

TU Libraries has recently added Black Historical Newspapers to its suite of eResources!

Black Historical Newspapers offers digitally-scanned primary source material on African-American culture, history, politics, and the arts as found in the following five historical newspapers:

• Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003) The Atlanta Daily World had the first black White House correspondent and was the first black daily in the nation in the 20th century.

• The Chicago Defender (1909-1975) A leading African-American newspaper, with more than two-thirds of its readership outside Chicago.

• Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005) The oldest and largest black newspaper in the western United States and the largest African-American owned newspaper in the U.S.

• New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993) This leading Black newspaper of the 20th century reached its peak in the 1940s.  The Amsterdam News was a strong advocate for the desegregation of the U.S. military during World War II, and also covered the historically important Harlem Renaissance.

• Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002) One of the most nationally circulated Black newspapers, the Courier reached its peak in the 1930s.  A conservative voice in the African-American community, the Courier challenged the misrepresentation of African-Americans in the national media and advocated social reforms to advance the cause of civil rights.
  

These historical newspapers may also be accessed via Black Studies Center, a gateway database, offering access to scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, videos, and images.

Be sure to check them out! 

TU Libraries is currently trialing 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection.

The Burney Collection is the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media available from the British Library and includes more than 1,000 pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks and newspapers from the period – including English provincial, Irish, Scottish and a handful of papers from British colonies, in the Americas and Asia – relating political, educational and economic situations.

The trial lasts through February 2nd.  Let us know if you believe this resource should be added to our eResource collection permanently.