University Debating League
The University Debating League will be from 8 to 11 April at Abat Oliba CEU University in Barcelona. Its aim is to foster the use of the spoken word among students through a challenge in which various teams will have to defend whether surrogacy should be legalized or not. Keep an eye on the clock! The following are some of the Library resources with information and news, articles and books to help you prepare.
1. Research the subject
News
MyNews Archive is a digital platform of Spanish modern printed press. This is a documentation repository used by journalists and information professionals, but it can be of interest for the study of any subject area.
- At MyNews Hemeroteca you may finde:
- Full text and originals pdf.
- More than 247million articles, from 1996
- More than 1400 sources (national, economics, regionals, sportive, agencies...)
You will find content from the main Spanish press publications like El País, La Vanguardia, El Periodico, ARA, etc...
International Newsstream (included on ProQuest Central) provides the most recent news content outside of the US and Canada, with archives which stretch back decades featuring newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-text format. ProQuest International Newsstream provides information from more than 660 of the world’s top newspapers, including The Times (London), The Bangkok Post, El Norte, Financial Times, The Guardian, Jerusalem Post, South China Morning Post, The Daily Telegraph, Asian Wall Street Journal, and the BBC Monitoring series of publications.
US Newsstream (included on ProQuest Central) enables users to search the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format. For academic and public libraries, US Newsstream offers exclusive access to the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and co-exclusive access (with Factiva) to The Wall Street Journal. US Newsstream also offers one of the largest collections of local and regional newspapers, and is cross-searchable on the ProQuest platform.
Global Breaking Newswires is the Library's main news resource, providing access to the best news content available worldwide. It also provides access to an archive of indexed and accessible news that cannot be retrieved from any of the traditional print sources.
Database offering full-text access to articles from the press, specialized journals and regional news agencies from throughout the United States and Canada.
Statistics
1,000,000 statistics focusing on industries, markets, consumers and insights downloadable in all popular formats, including PowerPoint, Excel and PDF. 18,000 public and scientific sources. 80,000 topics covering Europe, the United States and China.
At a journalistic level the microdata broken down by town is of particular interest, as it allows you to explore the analysis in depth. In general, any issue we want to study has related data readily available from the INE, and it is worth checking before writing.
It refers to any field: economic globalization, foreign policy, environment, industrial production, living conditions, agriculture, transport and demography, among many other aspects. It is an essential source when seeking references to a subject.
Finding and compiling the information is the first stage of data journalism. To help you in this task, we offer you primary information sources from different geographical and thematic areas.