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IUPUI SLIS L595 – Electronic Materials for Children and Young Adults
Dr. Annette Lamb
Summer Session I, 2007
May 16, 2007
Tremor 3.3:
Three Databases: An Exploration of Licensing Issues
1. Women and Social Movements, Basic Edition (which I'll abbreviate as WASM)
2. ProQuest Newsstand
Introduction:
ProQuest Newsstand
Broadly speaking, ProQuest Newsstand refers to a database that, at its core,
consists of a "Major Newspapers" collection, "which includes national and leading
regional papers such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA TODAY,
Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, The Atlanta Journal- Constitution, Barron's, The
Boston Globe, The Guardian, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Washington
Post" (http://tinyurl.com/2sk6fl). The number of newspaper titles a library
decides to subscribe to through ProQuest Newsstand is highly customizable
depending on the needs of the subscribing library and its patrons. For instance,
IUPUI's University Library describes its subscription to ProQuest Newsstand as
providing "selected full text for 25 national and international newspapers. The
database also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full
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text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers...[including] full-text content of
the Indianapolis Star from 1997 to the present (http://tinyurl.com/3aw5qg).
Opposing Viewpoints
Controversial social issues such as cloning, emigration and immigration,
poverty, war crimes, and affirmative action are addressed by this database by the
use of "viewpoint articles, contextual topic overviews, government and
organizational statistics, biographies of social activists, court cases, profiles of
government agencies and special interest groups, newspaper and magazines
articles, primary source documents, images, and a collection of subject-indexed
Web sites" (http://tinyurl.com/28pken).
References:
How did the Republican party respond to suffragists' entry into electoral politics in
New York, 1919-1926? (1998). Binghamton, NY: Women and Social Movements in
the United States 1830-1930. Retrieved 16 May 2007 from:
http://tinyurl.com/35zeso.
Stemper, Jim, and Susan Barribeau. 2006. Perpetual access to electronic journals:
A study of one academic research library’s licenses. Library Resources & Technical
Services 50 (April): 91-109. (WilsonWeb)
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