Near Real-Time News Delivered Online Daily!

Wadsworth is delighted to announce a new exclusive partnership with Dialog/NewsEdge that allows us to deliver daily-online- the latest discipline-specific news to higher education faculty and students. Any adopter of a Wadsworth text will have instant access to NewsEdge articles-sorted by key topics-simply by visiting the Instructor's Resources area of their Book Companion Web site. In addition, instructors who have adopted WebTutor on WebCT or Blackboard for 2003 or 2004 Wadsworth titles will receive NewsEdge feeds right into WebTutor. This allows both instructors and their students the same easy access to NewsEdge articles. Instructors can customize the feed to meet their own interests and their particular student or course needs.

What is NewsEdge?
NewsEdge offers timely, authoritative news for your field, refined by expert editors and delivered daily to instructors online. From healthcare to government to financial to industry, NewsEdge provides access to the breaking events that are shaping our world. Instructors can access NewsEdge either through the Instructor Resource area of the Book Companion Web site Ð or through WebTutor products that accompany our 2003 titles and 2004 titles.

What publications are included in NewsEdge?
NewsEdge draws on a wide range of local, national, and international newspapers, magazines, newsletters, journals, and wire services, including the Associated Press, Business Wire, Canada Newswire, Dow Jones Newswire, Global Information Network, Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, The Washington Post Company, and many others.

How can an instructor customize NewsEdge?
Instructors can customize their NewsEdge feeds through selecting a region (Americas, Europe, Middle East, or Africa) and subject areas. In addition, instructors can call up articles of specific interest by searching by topic or real time.

Customizing topics is easy. When in the password-protected Instructor's area of an adopted text's Book Companion Web site, the instructor simply clicks on NewsEdge (listed in the left navigation bar). Articles that have been automatically pushed to the site will appear, as well as links. To customize the feed, instructors click on "customize my topics" at the top of the page next to "My Topics." Click your preferred region, then check any areas of interest, and click "done." You will see your selected titles and can adjust further.

Instructors can also use the NewsEdge search to quickly locate articles of interest.

What are the advantages of NewsEdge
NewsEdge articles are pushed to the site in "near real time" Ð that is, multiple times daily. In addition, NewsEdge is completely advertising free, is a FREE service, and draws on articles that have been refined by expert editors.

How long are articles archived in NewsEdge?
Articles are archived for 90 days.

What is the difference between NewsEdge and InfoTrac College Edition?
Both services are free, offer reliable, authoritative information, and provide the latest news and information online to enhance courses. Instructors can choose to use both services in the classroom, drawing on the strengths of each. For example:

NewsEdge is a "push" service of daily news, offering near real-time coverage of breaking stories. Articles will appear on the Web site and in WebTutor with no active searching on the part of instructor or student. NewsEdge offers a wide variety of local, national, and international news that may be especially relevant to the course. While NewsEdge articles are archived for 30-90 days for easy access, NewsEdge is not designed as a research tool - but rather as an opportunity for instructors to bring the latest developments in their fields into the classroom daily. Instructors can customize the NewsEdge feed to receive the range of articles they prefer.

InfoTrac College Edition is a fully searchable database that offers 20 years' worth of full-text articles from almost 4,000 diverse sources, such as academic journals, newsletters, and up-to-the-minute periodicals including Time, Newsweek, Science, Forbes, and USA Today. Available 24 hours a day from any computer with Internet access, InfoTrac College Edition is an excellent research tool. Instructors can use it to prepare lectures and outside assignments or to build a reader from the database for their discipline. Students will appreciate the ease of online research, especially when writing papers, preparing class presentations, or researching a key topic.

What NewsEdge topic keyword are available for each discipline?