June 25, 2010
What is the easiest way to catalogue newspaper articles?
Can you answer choirweenie's question about printing?:
I am working on a project that involves me researching for and cataloging news articles (some from print, but mainly from the internet) with the purpose of then creating a database/clearinghouse from which I can, when necessary, pull out quotes on certain topics.
I am working on a project that involves me researching for and cataloging news articles (some from print, but mainly from the internet) with the purpose of then creating a database/clearinghouse from which I can, when necessary, pull out quotes on certain topics.
So far I have just been using excel and created a spreadsheet with the basic info, and then reading through all of the articles to create a summary and 1-3 keywords so I can locate the articles in a search of the spreadsheet. The only problem is that this is extremely time consuming and often makes me want to pound my head on my desk. If I was just using one source or search engine, it probably wouldn't be a problem, but I am all over the place with this thing.
Does anyone have any suggestions for a better way to do this? Any computer programs that might help make things easier?
Any and all constructive help is welcome!
Cheers!
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For newspaper articles I would scan them to a file (name them appropriately for your sanity).
For Internet articles, download a program called "Clip-It". With that program you can "clip" any page or portion of a page (site) and "paste" it to a new word processing program using "Word", or whatever you prefer.
You can "paste" the scanned file to the new word processing file and mix and match them as you please and/or save them for later inclusion.