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The commercial database vendors of newspaper and magazine articles, such as Lexis-Nexis, are moving to the Web. (But they're still not free!) Other new services have sprung up on the Web as well. (Also not free.)
Power Reporting: Search tools: Online services
Factiva
Growing in popularity in news libraries and newsrooms, because of its lower price and mix of national and regional newspapers, magazines and broadcast transcripts. Now with a nifty form on the Web for searching. Formerly Dow Jones News Retrieval or Dow Jones Interactive.
InfoMart
A leading Canadian service, with worldwide reach.
Knight-Ridder Information Serivces
Formerly Dialog.
Lexis-Nexis
The biggest full-text source, and the most expensive.
Response Source
Enquiry service for journalists to contact PRs (in-house and agency), with requests for quotes, interviews, review products, news, statistics etc. The PR recipients are mainly in the UK, but the service is open to journalists anywhere for no charge.
The Electric Library
Sign up for a free trial for two weeks. Monthly subscription is $9.95 plus per-document fees.
UMI ProQuest Direct
Has thousands of publications. Easy to search. More current than the ProQuest CD-ROM series.
West Publishing
Competitor to Lexis in the legal area.
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