ClariNews

All about ClariNews

ClariNews delivers news electronically, drawing primarily on wire services such as Reuters and United Press International (UPI). There are over 500 newsgroups that are organized by category, including business, general, international, and sports news; technical news and information; stock reports; and entertainment news. ClariNews also carries photographs distributed by news wires, press releases from companies, and some syndicated features, including comics and editorial cartoons. Over 3,000 articles are added around the clock every day.

ClariNews is available as a text-based newsfeed in the Usenet news format, to which you have access through Pine on your Pantheon account. It is also available on the Web from the Databases page of the Research Workstation.

More about the structure of ClariNews newsgroups.

Strengths and Weaknesses

The contents of ClariNews are primarily current news and information. Most newsgroups contain articles from the last two weeks. The arrangement of ClariNews by topic allows you to follow stories about a particular subject from several sources. In ClariNews on the Web, you can also search all of ClariNews for a particular topic.

Structure of Database (how to begin)

You can read ClariNews through Pine on your Pantheon account, or on the Web with the Netscape newsreader.

CLARINEWS THROUGH PANTHEON

The email application Pine also functions as a newsreader.

1. You can find the ClariNews newsgroups among the newsgroups below your list of email folders in Pine. See how  
2. Select a ClariNews group and read it. See how  
3. Subscribe to a ClariNews group. See how   
4. Read ClariNews stories through Pine. See how   
5. Unsubscribe from ClariNews groups. See how   

The newsreader Tin is another way to get to ClariNews on Pantheon.

CLARINEWS THROUGH NETSCAPE

ClariNews can be read with most web browsers, including Netscape.

1. Open ClariNews by connecting from Databases & Article Searching section of the library home page. Click on the letter C and scroll down to ClariNews. Choose "Plain-Text" from the two types of ClariNews. See how   
2. On the next screen that appears, select "Four Star." ClariNews opens automatically on the Business page. See how  
3. Select a topic that interests you by clicking on one of the Hot Topic categories (text highlighted in red) or on one of the regular newsgroups (text highlighted in blue). See how 
4. Use the mouse to highlight a story you want to read. Press <return> to read the story. See how   

Link to ClariNews on the Web.

ClariNews Documentation (Help Files)

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