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.

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.