Provision of News Aggregator Library Service - UK Parliament

Tender description

The Authority requires a news database for UK, regional and international titles with a substantial archive and the ability for all users, including Library customers, to create alerts and export their preferred search results. Specific requirements are: • An intuitive and easy to use interfaces that meet the needs of both general users (who require a quick, simple search facility) and specialist researchers (who require the ability to combine multiple search terms/fields and refine/filter their results). • Ability to use a drop down menu or similar to limit searches by pre-defined groups of titles, such as UK newspapers, UK broadsheets, UK tabloids, UK regionals, all English news, UK publications, all news, European news. • The ability to search by an individual title or publication. • The ability to search just within headline or author as well as within the full article. • Ability to filter their results by date range, by subject, by publication name and by type. • Users ability to recall searches from their recent search history. • The service must provide the ability for users to de-duplicate their search results. Lot 1: Provision of a news database for UK, regional and international titles with a substantial archive and the ability for all users, including Library customers, to create alerts and export their preferred search results.