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Searching Down Under: Australian Sources on Dialog NewsRoom

Whether you are focusing on information about Australia or conducting a search globally and want to include Australian publications, Dialog NewsRoom contains an impressive list of sources. Major providers of news from Australia include John Fairfax Holdings and News Limited. John Fairfax Holdings Ltd., the market leader in providing news, commentary and opinion in Australia, heads the list providing access to two years of historical perspective on business, economic, political and social developments from Australia and around the world in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian Financial Review and others. Fairfax also publishes financial and consumer magazines.

News Limited offers a national news focus in The Australian. Regional and local perspectives appear in the Leader newspapers in Victoria and the Messenger newspapers in south Australia. Market research and analysis about this corner of the world are available from the collection of IDC technology business reports and newsletters and Asia Pulse, providing a good market overview. In addition, AAP offers newswire information.

Some tips may help in searching these sources.

• To locate articles from specific news sources, search on the Journal Name
  
  
• To obtain specific company data, for instance, analysis by the global research group IDC, limit to the Company Name field and combine it with keywords on the topic of interest
  
  
• To search for information about Australia, limit to Australia as the Geographic Name
  
  
• To find articles from Australian publications, restrict to the Journal Region

You can also find out what Australian sources are covered in Dialog NewsRoom by searching the Publication List at www.dialog.com/sources/newsroom/index.cfm. You can search by publication title, region, industry and ISSN number. For example, by entering "Australia" in the region and title boxes, you retrieve a list of over 200 publications that contain information about Australia, indicating whether you will receive fulltext or abstracts.

You can obtain a comprehensive look at political, social, and economic events in Australia from a national, regional or local perspective, as well as, market information, using Dialog NewsRoom on DialogClassic, DialogWeb, Dialog DataStar, Dialog Profound, Dialog NewsEdge and Dialog1.

More Australian Titles

The Advertiser
Business Review Weekly
Daily Telegraph
The Illawarra Mercury
The Newcastle Herald
Personal Investor Magazine
Shares Magazine
The Sunday Age

Search Tips

• To see a list of all Messenger or Leader titles: e jn=messenger or e jn=leader
  
  
• To obtain good market overview information from Asia Pulse, try:
  s jn=asia pulse
  s (australia and profile?)/ti
  s s1 and s2

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