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Jones Interactive. (date varies with individual publications)
An international database providing the full text of some 6000 sources
from leading newspapers, magazines, trade journals, news wire services
and government papers, research reports. The emphasis is on business and
economic news, but general news and information and social issues are also
covered. Includes the ABIX database for Australian business
issues, and the full text for many Australian newspapers from the Fairfax
group and News Ltd. Provides links to corporate, industry, government and
news web sites. To go to DJI click
here.
Searching
At the DJI home page, click on Publications
Library to Search by Words or Phrases.
The defaults are for the system to search for words from the Full
Article published in Current
& Previous in Aust/NZ:
All Publications.
At Select date option:
pull down to All Years Or
enter date range: in the boxes provided.
In the search bar, Enter words or
phrases, separated by and, or, not, to retrieve
headlines that match your search. Use the dollar sign $
as a truncation symbol to retrieve plurals or alternative endings to a
word.
For example -
commerciali$ AND
innovat$ AND energy
Click on Run Search
to activate the search.
Words typed next to each other, without the AND
or OR operators will be searched
as phrases, eg -
case stud$ AND (photovolt$
OR hydrogen) AND commerciali$
Display
The search results are presented as a list of headlines and sources, with
the 100 most recent articles first.
To get the full text of an article, click on the highlighted headline.
Return
to Headlines to see the Search Results
list. Click in the small box to the left of the headline to select
a set of relevant articles. At the bottom of the page, click on View
* Articles to bring up the full text of the articles in that set.
NB. the date given in DJI references follows American
practice, that is month/day/year, so that 03/10/02 is 10th March 2002.
Output
From the full text of an article or a set you can Format
to Print/Save an individual article or a set. Click on the
green button, then use the Print
or Save As functions of your
web browser. The default extension for files is .asp, you may want
to change this to .txt before saving your article.
Modifying a search
To narrow a search, change the parameters to find words in Headline
Only, Lead Paragraph Only or in Headline
& Lead Paragraph.
You may limit the period searched by specifying a date
range using the boxes provided for month/day/year.
Change the publications searched using Selected
Publications:
For a search of all available titles click the radio button adjacent
to All Publications.
To search a specific paper or magazine, click on the highlighted
All Publications link to go to
Publications by Title then use the directory alphabetic to find
titles available in the Publications Library. From the alphabetical
list, click on the title of the journal or newspaper that you want to use,
then View most recent headlines
or Enter words or
phrases to search for articles in this publication.
Do a new search
Click on Search by Words
from the left hand frame, to return to the search bar. DJI
offers other search options; Search
by Company, Search by Industry,
Search by Person.
To leave DJI, click on Exit
at the left hand side of the orange bar above the Search
Results screen.
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