Newspaper

Newspaper

A newspaper is a kind of periodical. It is different from a journal by often being issued daily and usually have a broader target audience.

"A newspaper is a publication containing news and information and advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called newsprint. It may be general or special interest, most often published daily or weekly. The first printed newspaper was published in 1605." (Wikipedia, 2005).

Newspapers are important for the forming of opinions in democratic societies. It is not primarily Library and Information Science (LIS) but press research, journalism and mass communication that study newspapers.

Newspapers are primarily published as printed media (radio and television news of course are issued in electronic forms). Secondarily are many newspapers often published in microform, as CD-ROM, as full text databases or in special Internet editions.

From the point of view of LIS are newspapers also studied from various points of view, for example, issues related to bibliographic control, storage, indexing and some specific aspects of the use of newspapers.

The Dialog information system contains many newspaper databases, full-text as well as bibliographic. Among the bibliographic databases are Gale Group National Newspaper Index and Newspaper Abstracts Daily

In Denmark are larger articles in newspapers indexed in Artikelbasen, which is a part of the Danish National Bibliography. A more detailed indexing is provided by commercial services such as PolINFO.

Examples of LIS research in relation to newspapers include Attfield & Dowell (2003), Hope & Li (2004), Lehtokangas & Järvelin (2001), Retti & Stehno (2004) and Ørnager (1995 & 1999).

Literature:

Attfield, S. & Dowell, J. (2003). Information seeking and use by newspaper journalists. Journal of Documentation, 59(2), 187-204.

Gale Group National Newspaper Index . Dialog bluesheet 111. http://library.dialog.com/bluesheets/html/bl0111.html

Hope, B. G. & Li, Z. R. (2004). Online newspapers: the impact of culture, sex, and age on the perceived importance of specified quality factors. Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 9(4), 197. Available at: http://informationr.net/ir/9-4/paper197.html

Høyer, S. (2001). News: General. IN: Smelser, N. J. & Baltes, P. B. (eds.) International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Oxford. (Pp. 10638-10642).

Lehtokangas, R. & Järvelin, K. (2001). Consistency of textual expression in newspaper articles: An argument for semantically based query expansion. Journal of Documentation, 57(4), 535-548.

Newspaper Abstracts Daily. Dialog blue sheet 483. http://library.dialog.com/bluesheets/html/bl0483.html

Retti, G. & Stehno, B. (2004). The Laurin thesaurus - A large, multilingual, electronic thesaurus for newspaper clipping archives. Journal of Documentation, 60(3), 289-301.

Tebbel, J. (1989). Newspaper: History. Vol. 3, pp. 179-186 IN: International Encyclopedia of Communications Vol. 1-4. Ed. by Erik Barnouw et al. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989)

Newspaper: Trends. (7 articles. Vol. 3, Pp. 186-200 IN: International Encyclopedia of Communications Vol. 1-4. Ed. by Erik Barnouw et al. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989).

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (2005). Newspaper. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper

Ørnager, S. (1995). The Newspaper Image Database: Empirical Supported Analysis of User's Typology and Word Association Clusters. SIGIR'95, Seattle WA USA. ACM, 212-218.

Ørnager, S. (1999). Billeder og Ord. Analyse, beskrivelse og søgning af pressefoto. Handelshøjskolen København, Institut for Datalingvistik. (Ph.d. afhandling).