[PW] Clients of New York Times News Service and New York Times Syndicate (Other Newspapers / Publications Which Can Include NYT articles)

[Dennis Lien]

At 10:52 AM 7/26/2007, you wrote:
>Adrienne,
>I tried a Lexis-Nexis search by headline and also by the first line of the
>article.  The only entry that turns up is for the New York Times - and that
>only once.  That would mean either that no other newspaper indexed in
>Lexis-Nexis carried the story or that it is a free-lance article that cannot
>be included in the database.  Not very helpful, I know.  Why is your student
>so sure the article has been syndicated?
>
>Tsviya Polani


I had the same experience with a PROQUEST NEWSTAND search, and would offer
the same likeliest explanations as Tsviya has.

For what it's worth, I'm pretty sure it did not appear in the (Minneapolis)
STAR TRIBUNE or I would have remembered it.

A google search shows a reprint on boston.com -- I'm not sure if that
means it's from a Boston newspaper or not:

http://tinyurl.com/24nb9l

I searched google as

quain "check engine"

and got a number of additional hits, but none of the URLs look at first glance
like those of newspapers.  I didn't check them out.

If dedicated enough, one could search papers one at a time from a site like

http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/internet/archives.html

or

http://www.ipl.org/div/news/browse/US/

but absence of evidence would not be evidence of absence, since I suspect
many such online indexes (like many print newspaper indexes) may not index
reprinted syndicate materials, for Tasini or other reasons.

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // d-lien at umn.edu