Newslink2.0 User Guide

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1 Newslink2.0 User Guide Login Page Go to: For Chinese version, click To log in: 1. Key in your username 2. Key in your password 3. Click on Login Welcome, <username>! A successful login will display the Welcome message and the My Account.

2 Seamless Login Seamless login is done by accessing Newslink through an embedded link from an external webpage. Seamless login users do not need to provide username and password to access Newslink. For enquiries regarding seamless login, please refer to the Contact Details section of this user guide. Note: In case you have a secured domain ( then please change the Newslink URL provide to you as https: else for unsecured domain ( can use the URL as provided in the mail. This is the welcome page for seamless login. My Account is disabled. Welcome, user! Greeting Message is set default as user for security purposes. My Account is disabled for seamless login. To be able to access My Account, user need to login using username and password. To subscribe to Newslink please refer to the Contact section details.

3 Features My Account My Profile My Subscription My Usage My Preference Search Newslink Search o Standard Search o Article/PDF Retrieval o Advanced Search AD Search (Available only for Premium and Ad Agency subscribers and SPH Staff) Search My Account

4 My Account Note: My Account is available only for users who logged in to Newslink using username and password. All the sub features under My Account are disabled for seamless login. Please refer to the Seamless Login section of this user guide for more details of seamless login. My Profile This feature allows the users to input their particulars and the marketing promotion consent in the profile provided. Example of inputting Address: 1. Enter Address details 2. Click to submit the updated particulars. 3. Clicking the button will reset your form entries to default values. Note: Clicking UPDATE will also save the selection under the Marketing Promotion Materials section. My Subscription This feature allow user to view their subscription details such as package type, subscription duration, subscription fee, mode of payment, payment reference number, status of subscription.

5 My Usage This feature provides clear information on user s usage pattern. 1. Information of Digital Type 2. Information of No. of Access. 3. Total Amount charged with GST. Click on the text box to show the calendar and choose the Access Date. Click on the button to display the usage details table. Note: User will be able to check on the number of articles retrieved for the current and past 3 months. However, please note that a detail like the article title is not supported under this feature.

6 My Preference This feature provides configuration setup the user default settings. Choose your preferred Interface Language. Choose whether you want to have Payment Alert message box to be displayed when accessing news articles from Newslink. (Please refer to the Article/PDF retrieval section of this user guide for details) Choose whether you want to Highlight Text search keywords in the search results Select the publication to be in the list of publications to search. Click on the UPDATE button to allow your selection for preference to be updated.

7 Newslink Search Standard Search To use Standard search: 1. Input keyword(s) related to news article. Example: world cup Click Search button to display the results. 3. Search results will be displayed for the keyword(s) used. Search can be filtered by: Article Image PDF Search results can be sorted by: Relevance Date Ascending Date Descending

8 Newslink Search Symbols: The above information can also be found in FAQ(1) section. 1

9 Articles Search Results PDF Search Results:

10 Image Search Results:

11 Refine Search It allows users to refine search results by Date Range, Companies, Section and Keywords

12 Article/PDF Retrieval Article: Click on the article link from the search results. PDF: Click on the image thumbnail or page number from the search results. User will be prompted for article retrieval fee notice the moment the selected article/pdf is clicked. Note: This message prompt diplay can be turned off by setting the Payment Alert to Off in the My Account > My Preferences section.

13 1 2 3 [1] Whenever there are some pages available at Newslink which contains the particular article they are displayed with the pdf icon(to download the pdf) and page number. [2] Whenever the pages associated with articles are not available at Newslink only the page number are displayed and are not clickable. [3] The thumbnail image of the associated Pdf page which is clickable. Once clicked you can either open or save the pdf at your end On clicking the thumbnail image[1] and preview[3], Image is displayed in popup window. In case the image is part of any pdf page available at Newslink end, the pdf icon is display with the clickable page number[2]. On clicking the page number the pdf page can be viewed or downloaded. Otherwise[5] only the page number is displayed and not clickable. 5 On clicking Enquiry icon[4], Image purchase enquiry form is displayed.

14 Advanced Search To go advanced search page, from the Standard Newslink Search, click on the Advanced Search link. The Advanced Search page will display. To go back to Standard Search click on the button: Select from the available Publications Select the range of dates in the Publication Date Enter keyword(s) in Search and select the search filter type (All / Article / Image / Full Page PDF)

15 To search for specific article(s), the user may provide additional details such as: Section (the main section, or sections, of a newspaper that has general-interest information and features the daily news) By (the name of the journalist) To search for specific picture(s), the user may provide additional details such as: Section By (the name of the journalist) Caption To search for specific PDF page(s), the user may provide additional details such as: Section Page Number Click on to the SUBMIT button display the search results.

16 AD Search AD Search is available only Premium and Ad Agency subscribers and SPH Staff. For subscription enquiries, please see the Contact Details section of this user guide. AD Search allows users to search for Full Page PDF of advertisements and classified ad. To go to AD search page, click on the button. Premium Subscribers: Ad Agencies:

17 This is the AD Search page. User may select from the available Publications To search for ad PDF(s), the user will need to provide the Publication Date range and the Search keyword(s). To search for specific ad PDF(s), the user may provide additional details such as: Section Advertiser Page Number Click on to the SUBMIT button display the search results.

18 The AD Search results page will display after submitting the search details. Note: Please refer the PDF Retrieval section of this user guide for details on how to retrieve the Ad PDF from the search results.

19 Classified Ads Classified Ads can be search using the AD Search. Classified Ads are only available for the Ad Agencies and SPH staff. Ads can be searched from onwards. Available Publications and Sections in Newslink: Search all classified ads 1. Straits Times (CLA, CLO, BUS, IST, REC, REX, REY) 2. Lianhe Zaobao (CLA, ZAO,XSC,NOW) 3. The Business Times 4. The New Paper (NPS, NPX, NPW) 5. Berita Harian (BHS) 6. My Paper (MYB) 7. Shin Min Daily News (SHI) 8. Lianhe Wanbao (WAN) To search all classified ads: 1. Don t select any of the publication. 2. Select the range of dates 3. Type section name in Section area. Example: CLA, REC 4. Click on the Submit button

20 Search particular publication To search for classified ad for specific publication: 1. Select the publication 2. Select the range of dates 3. Type section name in Section area. Example: CLA, REC 4. Click on the Submit button Note: Currently search particular publication is not available for Lianhe Zaobao. To search for Lianhe Zaobao please search without selecting any publication. Search Results for CLA:

21 Archive Availability: Please note that articles are updated into the system one day after publication for weekdays. For weekends, articles are updated as follows: ST BT BH NP TABL Straits Times Business Times Berita Harian New Paper Tabla (Friday) (Saturday) (Saturday) (Saturday) & Berita (Saturday) available on available on available on Minggu (Sunday) available on Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday available on Tuesday Wednesday Sunday Times Sunday New available on Paper available Wednesday on Wednesday Contact Details: For enquiries, please contact: Helpdesk Hotline: (65) Fax: (65) Mon - Fri, 9am - 6 pm Address: Singapore Press Holdings Ltd Marketing Division, Interactive Business Unit, 1000 Toa Payoh North, Singapore ibnewslk@sph.com.sg