eresources@cambridge - Newspapers, Images, Sound & CDROM's
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News Services and Newspapers
Major Newspaper Collections
Factiva: Dow Jones collection of business and general news from 14,000 sources. A wide variety of UK and foreign newspapers and news sources including the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal.
LexisNexis Butterworths (on campus): a wide selection of UK newspapers, including regional titles, with backfiles (coverage varies between publications). Select "News" from the navigation bar at the top of the screen. Check or go directly to the resource for availability. For off-campus access using Raven passwords go to LexisNexis Butterworths (off-campus).
Newspaper Archives
The Times
Digital Archive
The entire
content
of The Times, 1785-1985.
19th Century
British Library Newspapers
This resource provides access to national, regional, and local 19th century British newspapers. It includes 48 titles,
totalling approximately 2.2 million pages, which reflect the social and political developments of the time. The
collection focuses on London national newspapers, English regional papers, home country newspapers from Scotland,
Northern Ireland and Wales, and titles in specialist areas such as Victorian radicalism and Chartism.
Additional news and Current Affairs information websites:
- Reuters (on campus only)
- BBC Monitoring (within the Library only)
- World News Connection (on campus only)
- Hansard - House of Commons
- Hansard - House of Lords
Images & Sound
Image and sound resources available to University of Cambridge staff, students and library users
| Resources Name | Description | Access Route |
| Archival Sound Recordings service | Archival Sound Recordings provides free access for members of UK higher education to over 12,000 recordings (3,900 hours). Recordings may be downloaded or played online. A set of editing tools is provided for use with items in the collection. | Raven password |
| Bristol Biomedical Image Archive | The BioMed Image Archive is an online collection of about 8000 medical, dental, and veterinary images for use in learning, teaching and research. | Raven password |
| British Universities Film and Video Council | Moving images for teaching and research in higher and further education | cam domain |
| Film and Sound Online | Film & Sound Online is a JISC-funded set of collections of film, video and sound material. Several hundred hours of high-quality material are available for download, either in full or as segments, and can be used freely in learning, teaching and research. Coverage includes political and social history, medical and biochemical studies. The collection includes Culverhouse Classical Music, 50 hours of copyright-free classical music and associated scores. Windows Media Player or QuickTime are required to use this service. Technical support is provided by the University Computing Service. | cam domain/Raven password |
| NewsFilm Online | a selection of news stories and programme scripts from the ITN/Reuters archives . some 3,000 hours of footage; c. 60,000 stories. | cam domain/Raven password (required for downloading) |
| Performing Arts Data Service | AHDS Peforming Arts deals with music, dance, theatre and radio, film & TV for the Arts and Humanities Data Service. | Unrestricted |
| Visual Arts Data Service | AHDS Visual Arts collections form a body of digital materials covering all subject areas of the visual arts, from textiles to architecture, including their practise, study and curation. | Unrestricted |
Collections of digitised images from the library's own collections are available from the Digital Image Collections page.
Please note that these links will only work from a PC terminal location in the University Library Digital Resources Area. They do not work on PWF terminals at present.
CD Roms
