Box Five WSJ-ProQuest tutorial

Box Five WSJ-ProQuest tutorial

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1. LibGuide Tutorial: Box #5 What is the Wall Street Journal? What's included in Belhaven's online subscription? public domain photo by Luigi Novi WALL STREET JOURNAL powered by ProQuest
2. U.S. daily national newspaper, the most influential American business-oriented paper and one of the most respected dailies in the world. Established in 1889 by Charles H. Dow, founder of Dow Jones & Co., it quickly won success. Beginning in the Great Depression, The Wall Street Journal began to feature more articles, reviews, and opinion on other subjects. Published in New York City and with regional editions printed across the country, it has one of the highest daily circulations of any U.S. newspaper. It is also published in Asian, European, and other special editions. ...Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
3. The Wall Street Journal is the #1 newspaper in America
4. solid base of print subscribers, and a growing number of digital subscribers put the WSJ in front
5. The Journal had total average circulation of 2.4 million in March, up 12.3% over the same period last year, according to the Alliance for Audited Media. -B To B [serial online]. May 13, 2013; 98(2):15. Available from: Business Source Complete, Ipswich, MA. Accessed August 13, 2013.
6. see Box #12 for more info on why the Journal is still one of the market's premier news sources
7. What's included in Belhaven's online subscription?
8. complete text of all articles + some images & graphics* *growing number of articles feature images & graphics
9. there are several options for accessing the WSJ. The ProQuest company is Belhaven's digital publisher Access options for the WSJ
10. in your search results, look for the added boxes to find articles that include images & graphics
11. Hood Library at Belhaven's Jackson main campus has a print subscription (daily) to the Wall Street Journal
12. The Markets Dashboard in Section C 'Money & Investing' is one of the very few features missing from our ProQuest-WSJ subscription. See the gap in pagination above, pages C.4 to C.8 per this day, August 6, 2013. for financials & trading prices(same day*) go to: markets.wsj.com *prices may not be real-time and may reflect delays
13. The print edition of the Wall Street Journal (seen here) only has investment & commodity prices for the close of the previous calendar day. Yet, print subscritions remain subbornly high for the Wall Street Journal. In fact, nearly 1.5 million people subscribe to the print edition of The Jounal.
14. 'Real time' trading information is not what makes the print (or digital) versions of The Journal so popular. Many subscribers get real time data from their brokerage accounts or other sources. Our ProQuest Subscription has the content that makes the WSJ #1: - award winning news, reporting - insightful opinions & editorials - indepth market coverage; researched articles - profiles of high end consumers - growing number of articles featuring images & graphics (ProQuest-WSJ)