News International Titles and Lexis-Nexis

Hello, I hope you are all enjoying your summer. Counter-intuitively, the summer is a really busy time for us in the library as we get to do all the stuff that we can't do when you are here. Anyway, some of you may be aware the News International titles The Times and Sunday Times are now behind a paywall, which means if you want to look at stories from these papers you will have to pay - currently £1 per day or a £2 weekly subscription. This is an interesting development and one that will be closed watched by other newspaper publishers. Personally speaking, I don't think that this is a good idea as I don't think that either paper offers anything that I can't see for free elsewhere on the net. Perhaps people may wish to subscribe to read their favourite commentators, I don't know, but it seems to me that The Times and Sunday Times are cutting themselves off from the vast majority of Internet users, particularly those who would have reached the papers from Google or other search engines.However the good news is that the majority of articles from these titles can still be read on Lexis Nexis News UK, to which the library subscribes. Lexis Nexis News UK is available to DBS students on and off-campus, though off-campus you will have to use 'Search All Resources' or the new EBSCOHost Integrated Search.