Year 5/6 Year 5/6 Information LiteracyInformation Literacy

Using Online Databases to find Newspapers & Magazine Articles 1

Sometimes you might need to look up a topic in a newspaper or magazine.

This is a really useful if you want to find up-to-date information or details

about an issue.

Rather than spend ages flicking through a newspaper we can use an

online database to find the information.

At this school we use:

This database holds newspaper and magazine articles from sources all over

the world.

Sometimes the articles are rewritten to make them easier for you to

understand or because they were originally in another language.

Global NewsBank holds articles from 43 Australian newspapers.

This includes:

• The Age

• The Australian

• The Herald Sun

• Leader Newspapers

• MX

• Sportsman

• The Weekly Times

Activity

Locate Global Newsbank on the Library’s homepage

HINT! Find the link to E-Databases FIRST, then look for Global Newsbank

Click on the link for Global Newsbank

THEN

Open up this worksheet:

Newsdbases_6

In the space provided on your worksheet, list at least 6 different

overseas “news providers” from the Source Lists.

Also include the name of the city each news provider comes from.

HINT!You will find the Source Lists on the LEFT SIDE of the Global Newsbank homepage.

On the left side of the screen you will find HOT TOPICS

Investigate a topic that interests you

To do this, use the search terms suggested at the end of the topic.

On you worksheet, complete the following questions:

1.Write down the topic you have chosen2.What is the name of the news source that the article came from?3.What type of news media do you think it is? (Radio, Newspapers, Internet news etc)4.What is the title of the article?5.What is the article’s publication date?6.Who wrote the article?7.Copy the article’s URL into the space provided on your worksheet.8.Write down what the article is about (in your own words).9.Compose a bibliographic entry for the article you use from the Global Newsbank website (see the example on the next page).

FormatAuthor Surname, Author Initial. (year, Month Day). Title of article. [On-line]. Name of Periodical, Vol, pp. . Available: Global Newsbank Accessed on date.

ExampleJones, I. (2003, June 13). Green turtles in the Great Barrier Reef. [On-line].  Eco, Vol 6, 16-21.  Available: Global Newsbank. Accessed on 21- 01-2004.

How to write a bibliographic entry for subscriber-based online newspaper or magazine articles.

Now you need to:

SAVE a copy of your worksheet on your G drive

EMAIL a copy to sbarber@elthamcollege.vic.edu.au

PRINT out a copy to put in your Library folder

NOW YOU NEED TO:

Print out a copy of this document:

Assess_newspapers1

This is your assessment rubric for this topic

Circle the bits that relate to you

Could you have done better?

Open this document

Self_evaluation_7

This is your self-evaluation sheet for this topic.

Complete the page, then:SAVE it

EMAIL it to sbarber@elthamcollege.vic.edu.au

PRINT it out and put it in your Library folder

You have now completed the topic:

Using Online Databases to find Newspapers & Magazine Articles 1

WELL DONE!!

Make sure you have SAVED, EMAILED & PRINTED all of your work.