WORLD NEWS CONNECTION
Quick Guide for University of Michigan Affiliates
Last updated on January 25,
2003
Description
The World News Connection has the full text of
foreign radio broadcasts and wire services, as translated by the Central
Intelligence Agency, since November 1994. It
continues the former Foreign Broadcast
Information Service. Publications removed from the World
News Connection may be available on CD-ROM at the Documents Center's
workstations.
Access
The World News Connection is a web-based
product. The URL is: http://wnc.dialog.com/.
It is available through the University of Michigan network to all
workstations on campus, to current University students, faculty and
staff who connect via an ITD telecommunications package to an Ann Arbor
NAS telephone number (734-489-2222), and through the library proxy server
for authenticated users: http://proxy.lib.umich.edu/login?url=http://wnc.dialog.com/
Access is limited to five simulanteous users.
Search Interfaces
| Type | Uses | Features |
| Free Text | Easiest for searching specific information; may be less accurate than structured searching | Enter keywords without Boolean operators (and, or, not); use quotation marks to indicate phrase; modify by date and number of documents to retrieve |
| Region/Topic | Overview of All Articles on Region and/or Topic | Click on box for pre-defined region and/or topic; modify by date and number of documents to retrieve |
| Structured | Obtain specific information from a specific country | Enter keywords, fields, and operations for additional fields; modify by date and number of documents to retrieve; sort results options |
Search Hints
Dates
Publication Date - date of article
WNC Entry Date - use if regularly monitoring WNC and want additions since last update
Free Text Searching
Do not use Boolean operators (and, or, not)
Different terms can be added with only a space
Phrases should be placed in quotation marks
Structured Searching
Keyword Variants
A * is used as a wildcard (e.g. wom*n or child*)
A ~ is used for variant letter in a word
Fields
Any, Title, Source, Region
Regions
Central Eurasia, China, East Asia, East Europe, West Europe, Latin America, Near East and South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa
Operators
AND; OR; NOT; BUT NOT; Adjacent; Within 5, Within 10, Within 25, Within 50 words
Sort Results
Entry Date, Publication Date, Title, Source
Source
Media name (e.g. Clandestine, Globe)
Place (e.g. London, Baghdad)
Viewing, Printing and Downloading
View a single article at a time or click on the boxes for multiple
articles.
Use browser for printing or downloading.
When
downloading,
change the disk drive, save as a plain text file rather than an HTML
file, and assign a name with a .txt extension (e.g. change
retrieve to article1.txt).
Copyright
Please read the copyright statement before accessing the data base.
Exiting
When you are finished using the World News Connection, please use your browser back button to the main page and click on the Exit button to ensure you are disconnected.
Grace York, Coordinator, Documents Center
The University of Michigan Library
Comments and suggestions to Grace York
http://www.lib.umich.edu/wnc.html
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