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Finding Newspapers Online

Key UK newspapers
Post-1900 newspaper databases
Pre-1900 periodicals and newspapers

Daily Mail [full-text]
Full-text access to the Daily Mail from 1896 to present.
The Economist [full-text]
Full-text access to this important weekly paper from 1843 to the present. Particularly useful for those interested in politics, current affairs and all aspects of business and trade worldwide.
Financial Times [full-text]
Coverage from 1888 up to the present day across different platforms. Please note there is an embargo of 30 days on current issues.
The Guardian and The Observer [full-text]
Coverage from 1791-present day (The Observer) and 1821-present day (The Guardian) across different platforms.
The Independent [full-text]
Full-text access to The Independent from 1986 to present.
The Telegraph Historical Archive, 1855-2000 [full-text]
Coverage from 1855-2000.
The Times & The Sunday Times [full-text]
Coverage from 1785-present day across different platforms.

Gale NewsVault [full-text]
Primary source content from a range of Gale's historical newspaper and periodical collections, allowing you to search simultaneously across various resources.
Gale OneFile: News
Provides access to a wide range of local, regional and national newspapers from around the world. Strong US focus. Formerly Infotrac Newsstand.
International Herald Tribune Historical Archive, 1887-2013
Archive of this important international newspaper, known for its objective and clear coverage. Covers the years 1887-2013.
LexisLibrary [full-text]
Current issues and archives of many UK national and local newspapers. click on the "News" tab at the top of the welcome screen to search for individual titles or multiple ones.
ProQuest News & Newspapers [full-text]
Full-text of over many local, regional and national newspapers, news websites and blogs from leading publishers throughout the world. Includes backfiles for most newspapers, providing access to articles, columns, editorials, obituaries and features published in each paper.

The Big Project Newslinks
Provides links to current news and blogs from around the world in English.

Gale Primary Sources [full-text]
Use this resource to search across Gale's archival primary source content from a range of newspapers and journals. Several of the individual collections are listed below.
17th and 18th Century Burney Collection [full-text]
The largest single collection of 17th-18th Century English news media available from the British Library. It includes more than 1000 pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks and newspapers. It covers the years 1600-1800.
19th Century UK Periodicals [full-text]
Nearly 100 full-text searchable 19th century periodicals covering women's writing, the rapid rise of children's entertainment and education, among other topics. Covers the years 1800-1900. Part of Gale Primary Sources.
British Library Newspapers [full-text]
This database includes the full-text of 48 national, regional, and local 19th century British newspapers reflecting the social and political developments of the time. Covers the years 1800-1900. Part of Gale Primary Sources.
British Newpapers 1600-1950 [full-text]
Covers the 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection and British Library Newspapers, allowing you to search across several centuries for changes in trends. Covers 1600-1950.
Punch Historical Archive 1841-1992
Provides access to all published volumes of Punch. This resources is particularly useful for 19th and 20th century political and social history.
International Herald Tribune Historical Archive, 1887-2013
Archive of this important international newspaper, known for its objective and clear coverage. Covers the years 1887-2013. Part of Gale Primary Sources.

Google News Archives
Archive of digitised newspapers including foreign language and regional titles. From the 19th Century onwards (incomplete).

Search Summon to find news articles

The Summon discovery service includes online newspaper articles covered by our many of our subscriptions. Search for a topic in the box below. You can Refine your results by publication year to see the most recent articles, or to find out how that topic was portrayed in earlier times.

Printed newspapers

The Library still has subscriptions to printed newspapers, which it keeps for a limited period of time. All of these can be viewed in the Enterprise Catalogue.

Current issues are in Short Loan on the Ground Floor of the Library.

Current physical subscriptions which are kept for two months are:

The Times
The Financial Times
The Guardian

Current physical subscriptions which are kept for 6 months are:

The Bookseller
The Times Literary Supplement
THE: Times Higher Education
Reading Chronicle (local newspaper)

Current physical subscriptions which are kept for 1 year are:

The Spark (Reading University Student newspaper)

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Newspapers vs. Journals

Academic journals differ from newspapers in that they are often peer-reviewed, focused on an academic discipline or subject and include academic articles which may include abstracts, literature reviews and bibliographies/reference lists. For more information on journals and how to find them, see our guide below.

Finding journals

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