Media Scan

Informit Access Mediascan

1991 -

Current events and news items

International

Media Scan indexes the following newspapers:
Sydney Morning Herald (1996-) -
The Age (1991-)
The Australian (1991-)
The Herald Sun (1991-)
The Bulletin (1991-)
The Courier Mail (1995-)
Sunday Mail (1994-)
Adelaide Advertiser (1997)
West Australian (1996-1997)

The guidelines for indexing articles in Media Scan are as follows:
All lead items (on page 1) except sport results.
All feature articles.
All articles concerning contentious issues such as abortion, republic debate, euthanasia.
Most articles about Australian Politics, elections and events.
All editorials, all opinion articles, commentaries.
Letters to the Editor.
Main international articles.
All articles about new technology, inventions, science research.
Articles from computer sections.
National and international disasters such as earthquakes, floods.
Political and topical cartoons.
Summaries of reports, statistics, opinion polls, research papers.
Education articles.

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Truncation: (*) serves as a substitute for any string of zero or more characters,e.g. tax* finds tax, taxes, taxation, taxing
Within a word (*) serves as a substitute for one character or none. Multiple asterisks (***) replace tup to that number of characters. e.g. colo*r finds color or colour. dra***t finds draft of draught
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Media Scan

Media Scan was originally developed to assist students prepare for VCE Cat1. Over a period of time Media Scan incorporated many more articles covering a wider range of subjects, and so introduced interstate papers into the database.
Fulltext is not included in this database. The Library subscribes to several in print and also has some available electronically through Electric Library and Dow Jones Interactive