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Discover opinions, commentary, editorials, press releases and more in Factiva, one of the world's leading newspaper databases. Familiarise yourself with Factiva's new interface, and leverage the power of news in your work.
Unlock your social sciences research potential with our Social Sciences Discovery workshop series. Designed for researchers, students, and academics, these workshops will equip you with essential skills to efficiently navigate major social science databases.
Discover opinions, commentary, editorials, press releases and more in Factiva, one of the world's leading newspaper databases. Familiarise yourself with Factiva's new interface, and leverage the power of news in your work.
Unlock your social sciences research potential with our Social Sciences Discovery workshop series. Designed for researchers, students, and academics, these workshops will equip you with essential skills to efficiently navigate major social science databases.
Resources
Learn
- How to access and familiarise yourself with the new interface, for general searches
- To track developments through the years using newspapers articles
- To differentiate between various types of content available in Factiva, including news articles, opinion pieces, and press releases
Speakers
Kho Su Yian
Principal Librarian (Research Librarian – HASS)
With over 20 years of experience as a librarian, Su Yian advises students and conducts workshops on Business Research. Her interests include social media, mythology and Chinese tea. A NUS alumni, Su Yian graduated from FASS with a B.A (Hons) in English Literature.
Lim Siu Chen
Senior Librarian (Research Librarian – HASS)
Siu Chen is a research librarian at NUS Libraries, with interests in copyright and digital information literacy and their applications to teaching, learning and research. She has experience providing information literacy instruction as part of the Law
Resource and Humanities & Social Sciences Teams, and works to increase the embedding of information discovery, evaluation and reference skills in curriculum. She is currently reflecting on library pedagogy and strategy, cultivated by the need
to re-imagine the future of libraries in the experience age. She has an LLB (Hons) from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and an MSc (Library Science) from Nanyang Technological University (NTU).
All NUS staff and students are welcome.
Booking availability on a first come, first served basis.
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