- Applied Social Sciences and Social Work
-
- Accessing your reading lists
- Databases For My Subject
- Subjects
- Document supply
- Staff and researchers
- DISCOVER
- About us
- How to...
- Web resources
- Getting Started
- Key e resources
- Student support
- Unit Readings
- Assistive Status
- Finding information
- Full text databases
- Dissertation Binding
- Referencing and plagiarism
- Search tips & tricks
- Accessing the literature
- Dissertations and research
- About us
- Accessing your reading lists
- Databases For My Subject
- Document supply
- Staff and researchers
- DISCOVER
- About us
- How to...
- Web resources
-
- Charities
- Statistics
- Search engines
- Subject gateways
- How to critically evaluate a webpage
- Government websites
- Evidence Based Practice (EBP) for Social Care
- Web resources you can trust
- Electronic Discussion Lists
- Getting the best from Google
- Domain names and country codes
- Charities and other non governmental organisations
- Getting the best from Google Scholar
- Government websites
- Getting Started
- Key e resources
- Student support
- Unit Readings
-
- Social Enquiry (ASS022 1)
- Sociology of Deviance (ASS022 2)
- Forensic Mental Health
- Identity & Structure (ASS021 1)
- Contemporary Social Theory
- The Nature of Social Theory (ASS021 2)
- Crime, Punishment & Justice (ASS025 2)
- Global News and Media Audiences (ASS023 2)
- Sociology of Health & Illness (ASS016 3)
- Contempoary issues in criminology
- Contemporary issues in criminology
- Contemporary Society & Education (ASS020 1)
- Human Development
- Evidence Based Practice (EBP) for Social Care
- Dissertation in Criminology (ASS020 3)
- Working with Diversity & Difference
- Criminology & Sociology BA Special Study
- Mental Health in Practice
- Understanding the Welfare State & Education
- Poverty & Social Exclusion
- Introduction to Theories and Issues in Criminology (ASS021 1)
- Adult Social & Community Care
- Current Issues in Adult Services
- Introduction to the Social Sciences
- Introduction to Social Work Legislation
- Critical Ethical and Reflective Practice
- Working Together: Theories, Methods and Skills for Intervention
- Developing Academic & Professional Skills
- Working with Children Young People and Families: Core Concepts
- The Organisational and Disciplinary Nature of Professional Practice
- Assistive Status
- Finding information
-
- Books
- E books
- Journal articles
- Magazines
- Statistics
- Useful classmarks for the Applied Social Sciences
- Newspaper articles
- Audio visual resources
- Web resources
- Reference books
- Legal materials
- Research reports
- Research Project (ASS01 3)
- Conference papers
- Human Development
- Government Reports
- Working with Diversity & Difference
- Books
- Academic & non academic
- Mental Health in Practice
- E books
- Journal articles
- Extended Practice Placement
- Poverty & Social Exclusion
- Statistics
- Newspaper articles
- Adult Social & Community Care
- Current Issues in Adult Services
- Reference books
- Legal materials
- Contemporary Society & Education
- Introduction to the Social Sciences
- Introduction to Social Work Legislation
- Critical Ethical and Reflective Practice
- Working Together: Theories, Methods and Skills for Intervention
- Developing Academic & Professional Skills
- Working with Children Young People and Families: Core Concepts
- The Organisational and Disciplinary Nature of Professional Practice
- Findinginformation
- Full text databases
- Dissertation Binding
- Referencing and plagiarism
- Search tips & tricks
- Accessing the literature
- Dissertations and research
- About us
Newspaper articles
Newspapers & other media
Need to keep up with the latest news about your topic? Or gauge public opinion? Newspapers and the media can be ideal for this.
| Advantages | Disadvantages |
| Useful for topical information, government initiatives, specific events & cases, public opinion | Written by journalists (who are not experts). Do not have the authority of academic materials, e.g. journals |
| Quick to search in electronic format | Articles may not be researched in depth; there may be inaccuracies |
| Articles may be biased | |
| Articles may be sensationalised in order to sell more copies |
Electronic newspapers
Most newspapers have free online editions (sometimes with archives of back copies). However, articles in the free online editions may be abbreviated and their archives are unlikely to go back for many years.
Full text newspapers articles (identical to the printed version) may be found by using the University's newspaper databases which have huge archives covering more than 20 years in some cases.
- NewsBank Newspapers UK- Simultaneously search all the national and many of the local UK and Ireland newspapers for the past 10 years. All articles are full text and you may print, save or e-mail any useful articles that you find.
- Access World News – Simultaneously search newspaper articles from around the world fro the last 30 years. Areas covered include: Africa, Asia, Europe, the Russian Federation, the Pacific Rim, Central and South America, and the Middle East.
- Lexis Library – Simultaneously search all the major UK national newspapers (and many of the regional ones) for the last 20 years.
For further information on newspapers taken by the library (including databases of historic newspaper articles back to 1600) click here.
Printed newspapers
Printed copies of newspapers (e.g. The Guardian, The Independent, The Observer, The Times) are kept in the journals section on Level 1 of Polhill Library (for one month) and on Level 0 at Park Square (for six months). The latest editions are displayed on the Ground Floor at Polhill Library and on Level 1 at Park Square LRC.
Online news services
- BBC News - the BBC's news website has an excellent news section with links to the radio stations. You can get RSS feeds from this site to keep you up-to-date with issues.
- Google News Archive Search - allows browsing of articles that go back over 200 years. Sources covered include many American newspapers including the New York Times, Forbes and the Wall Street Journal.
- Newsfilm Online - is a JISC-funded service comprising a selection of news stories and programme scripts from the ITN/Reuters archives with some 3,000 hours of footage and about 60,000 stories.
Library on social media
