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Newspaper Abstracts, with over 3,300,000 records, is a valuable tool for those involved in the following:

Art

Business

Current-Events

Demographics

Economics

News

Politics

Social-Issues

SOURCE: UMI

UPDATE FREQUENCY: Monthly

DATA TYPE: Bibliographic with Abstracts

COVERAGE: 1989-Present, 1991-Present

RECORDS HELD: 3,300,000+

RECORDS ADDED ANNUALLY: 330,000+

 

Newspaper Abstracts from UMI provides cover-to-cover indexing of articles appearing in the following newspapers from 1989 to date (except where noted): The New York Times, The Atlanta Constitution (includes selected articles from The Atlanta Journal), The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, The Houston Chronicle, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. Complete bibliographic citations plus concise and informative abstracts collected from each of the selected newspapers combine to bring you information covering international, national, regional, and local news, business and finance, editorials, commentaries, letters to the editor from prominent people, arts and leisure, special series and supplements, sports, and obituaries of eminent persons.

The Power of electronic information on SilverPlatter

With your choice of SilverPlatter’s search and retrieval software (SPIRS) for Web, Windows, Macintosh, PC or UNIX clients, you can easily: search the entire database in a single keystroke; target your search to a specific area of interest; free-text search through the database; use Boolean and proximity operators for searching, including AND, OR, NOT, WITH, NEAR, ADJ; switch easily from brief to full record; search Newspaper Abstracts AND other databases at the same time for truly comprehensive results; combine current and previous search statement and much, much more!

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