As part of your job hunt you will need to make sure that you keep up to date with developments and news in your chosen field. Having current knowledge will enhance your credibility and help you ask informed and relevant questions at interviews.
Employers will want to see that you have an understanding of an organisation's history and mission and that you are aware of any current political or economic issues that may affect its work. See our Newspaper guide for further information.
Our students recommend using FT.com for access to the e-paper, features, special reports and industry insights.
The following databases will let you search across multiple sources quickly and access local, national and international news:
Offers full text from a range of sources including international newspapers, trade publications and magazines. Many titles have a 20 year archive and content is updated daily, making it useful for business, industry news and reports.
Please note that articles generally have no formatting or images.
Limitation:
Full-text coverage of national, regional and international news from a range of sources including newswires. Updated daily and with many titles having a 20 year archive, useful for current affairs and seeing how topics have been reported.
Articles generally have no formatting or images.
Limitation
Box of Broadcasts (BoB) is an off-air recording and media archive service which enables all staff and students to choose and record any broadcast programme from 60+ TV and radio channels.
The recorded programmes are then kept indefinitely and added to a growing media archive (currently at over 1 million programmes), with all content shared by users across all subscribing institutions. Please note: Only available to users in the UK and for educational use only
One of the best ways to keep up to date is by using alerts.
The databases below allow you to set alerts (usually by signing in to the database and creating a personal account) so you will be told when new content on your topic is published.
Examples of databases are:
Platform providing access to databases covering a variety of subjects including business, economics, education, environment, food science, health, politics and sociology.
The largest abstract and citation database of international peer-reviewed literature: journals, books and conference proceedings. It also has smart tools to track, analyse and visualise research.
Multidisciplinary resource which enables simultaneous cross-searching of a range of citation indexes and databases. It provides access to research tools like cited reference searching and the Journal Citation Reports.