Newspapers
Online resources: News and newspapers
Searchable collections (e-library)
- Nexis UK contains the full text of all UK national newspapers as well as a range of regional and international newspapers, some up to twenty years old. This is a searchable database, very powerful when researching specific topics; it is not as useful for general browsing. Logon to the e-library for access.
Searchable collections (Internet)
- Paperboy is a list of links to the websites of regional, national and international newspapers; you can search for publication titles, but not for specific topics or articles.
- British Media Online, similarly, offers links to a wide variety of national and local newspapers and magazines in the UK. Especially good to keep in touch with local news, as the regional subcategories contain links to most papers with an online presence.
Current news
- BBC News features live, regularly updated national and international news in a variety of formats, as well as scheduling and content information about the BBC’s televised news shows.
- Google UK News lists up-to-date headlines from other news sources, providing links to full articles. Change location or category (choose from ‘health’, ‘sports’, ‘entertainment’, etc) for a list of the material most relevant to you.
- Yahoo UK News provides a similar list of up-to-date links to its own articles, which can also be navigated by category as well as searched. Its American cousin, Yahoo News, provides you with content from across the Atlantic.
UK national newspapers and magazines
These links take you to a newspaper’s website, which will include articles from their printed editions, and additional content, including online discussion.
Broadsheet newspapers:
Tabloid newspapers:
Magazines:
- Times Higher Education has up-to-date career listings and news from the British Higher Education sector, including content not present in the printed edition.
- The Economist is a weekly English-language magazine, published in London, taking an unbiased viewpoint on not only economic affairs, but a range of political, business and financial issues.
- The New Scientist covers, weekly, recent developments in international science and technology for a general English-speaking audience. The website includes job listings in the relevant fields, and range of articles. A subscription is needed to access longer content, of which only extracts are available without a login.
Around the world
- Foreign language news and newspapers features a comprehensive set of links to foreign language journals, newspapers and magazines. You can browse by language or source type.
- Al Jazeera: an English language version (with links to the Arabic) of the Middle East’s foremost independent news network.
- Frankfurter Allgemaine is the most popular German broadsheet newspaper outside Germany; note that there is no English-language version of this website.
- Le Monde is a well-respected newspaper widely obtainable outside its native France. Again, online content is not in English.
- New York Times: America’s largest metropolitan and most popular online newspaper; the website is dense but clear, and kept up-to-date.
- Reuters is a well-known, Canada-controlled business news and financial information service. Editions for different countries can be selected with the drop-down menu on the homepage. The site provides detailed financial and economic information by country.
- Washington Post: one of America’s leading daily newspapers, known for its political reporting, and with several foreign bureaus providing international news. Access to online articles is free, but requires users to sign up.
- CNN is a US-based cable news network that provides up-to-the-minute reporting as well as political and international analysis. The tabs at the top of the website will bring up the most recent headlines for that subject area.
- Time is one of America’s number one magazines on a variety of topics; from politics, to the arts, to popular culture, to their sometimes-controversial ‘Person of the Year’ choices.
Historical news
- The British Library Newspaper Reading Room in Colindale, North London, provides access to the British Library’s archive of British and international newspapers, as well as magazines and comics.
- British Newspapers 1600-1900 is a British Library-provided online archive of British newspapers and other publications from 1600 to 1900, searchable by topic and headline.
- Nineteenth Century Newspapers: you’ll need to login to the e-library to access this collection of 19th Century British newspapers; the website is similar in organization and style to the one above.
- Seventeeth & Eighteenth Century Newspapers, Burney Collection– this is the online version of Reverend Charles Burney’s collection of newspapers, pamphlets and books, maintained by the British Library. Login is required, just like the British Library sites above.
- Newsfilm Online, you’ll need to login to access this archive of ITN/Reuters/Channel 4/Channel 5 news broadcasts, searchable by topic and dating back to the early 1900s.
