LINUS 99 : Dow Jones Interactive

LINUS July 1999 : Electronic Resources

Dow Jones Interactive

Loh Mee Lan, Central Library RIS Dept

The Web version of Dow Jones Interactive (DJI) has been made available since the end of April 1999. DJI provides access to over 6,000 sources from newswires, newspapers, magazines and trade journals. The newspapers covered include Asian Wall Street Journal, Bangkok Post, Business Times (Singapore), The Financial Times, Times (London), New York Times, Straits Times. Most of these sources have the full text of the articles.

Access to DJI is controlled by NUS IP addresses. DJI is available to NUS staff and students when they are logged in to NUSNET.

To access DJI, point your browser to:

NUS Library Homepage at http://www.lib.nus.edu.sg/
Click on Digital Library
Select Library InfoGate under Databases and click GO
Click on Dow Jones Interactive

At DJI Home page, click on the service you want. You have access to Business Newsstand to browse leading newspapers, Web Center to search selected corporate, industry, government and news Web sites and Publications Library to search the full text publications in DJI.

To search the recent six months for articles on Asian crisis impact on Singapore, just enter your terms separated by Boolean operators (Singapore and Asian crisis) in the search box and change the settings for the date range if required.

Dow Jones Search screen

If you want to search all 6,000 publications in DJI Publications Library, make sure you check All Publications instead of Selected Publications before you click on Run Search.

The search results will then be displayed. Click on the check box on the left of the title to select the relevant articles. Click on View articles at the bottom of the screen. If you only want to view one article, just click on the title to go to the full text.

Sample full text article:

Contents July 1999

Library News Welcome to NUS Library Orientation Programme LION for information literacy Obituary for Micheal Cheng Chinese Overseas Collection Library electronic forms Wireless NUSNET access in the Library A quantum leap in electronic resources

Electronic resources All England Law Report guide Central Library new CD-ROMs Dow Jones Interactive Exam Papers on the Web Encyclopedia Britannica Evidence Based Medicine Reviews IEL on the Web INSPEC on Axiom

Collection Highlights Business multimedia in HSSML Effective Teaching Materials

Other LINUS issues

East Asia
Shake off hangover of crisis : R-Adm Teo
Douglas Wong in Kuala Lumpur
06/01/1999
The Straits Times ( Singapore)
Page 19 Copyright 1999, STP (1975) Limited

He warns against retreating into economic nationalism and says that US-China-Japan stability is crucial

THE Asia-Pacific must shake off the "hangover" of the economic crisis the United States, China and Japan, said Singapore's Education and Second Defence Minister Teo Chee Hean yesterday.

Speaking at a regional security conference here yesterday, he also warned against retreating into economic nationalism in the aftermath of the crisis.

He said the "shape of the US-China-Japan triangle is the crucial factor that could determine which path the future takes"...

To print or save the article, click on Format for Printing, at the bottom of the full text screen. This opens another window containing only the text with the frames used by DJI. Use your Web browser to print or save the article.

You may want to search a specific source or a few selected sources instead of all publications, e.g. Straits Times and Business Times only. At the Publications Library search screen, click on the Dow Jones - Selected Publications drop-down box under Selected Publications and choose Singapore ST & BT. If the source is not available in the drop-down box, click on Revise Publications to choose from the publications list. You can add or remove the publication sources as desired. Click on Finish when you are done.

After clicking Revise publications, you can view the publications list and click on the title of a specific source to view details such as date of first issue, frequency of publication.

Sociological Review

Discusses subjects related to sociology, with topical essays on health and work, job training, equal opportunities and skills, social attitudes to family relationships, and more.

Coverage	Abstracts
Date of First Issue Online	01/01/97
Date of Most Recent Issue Online	02/01/99
Frequency of Publication	Quarterly
Available How Soon After Publication Date	2-6 weeks
Update Schedule	As available
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Enter words or phrases to search for articles in this publication

You can also enter your search terms here at this screen to search the headlines published in this title for the current and previous year.

Detailed online help is available by clicking on Ask DJ located on the menu bar.

To fully logout of DJI, be sure to click on EXIT located on the DJI menu bar. This enables another NUS user to access DJI. Do not just click on Home, Forward, Back, go to another page or close your Web browser.

Error Message on Login

If you encounter the following message, it means that all available licences are in use. Please try again later.

"The user name and password you have entered are already in use. Only one user at a time can be logged in to a user name and password. Please disconnect your other session and then try again, or try again later. If you have questions, please call Dow Jones Customer Service at 800-369-7466 (outside the U.S. and Canada, call 609-452-1511)."

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