eresources@cambridge - News Services and Newspapers
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Collections of Current Newspapers
- 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
Individual titles can be searched on ejournals@cambridge A-Z and in Newton
Factiva (currently available on campus only) - Kikuzo II Visual for Libraries: The largest online newspaper database in Japan. This includes the Asahi shinbun newspaper archive (1945-2007) plus two weekly journals: Weekly Asahi and Aera. Asahi shinbun is the most important newspaper in Japan and a primary source for both studies of current Japanese society and studies of Japan in historical aspects
Kikuzo II Visual for Libraries (on and off campus) - LexisNexis Butterworths: 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
LexisNexis Butterworths (on campus)
LexisNexis Butterworths (off campus) - Integrum World Wide: The Central Press database currently provides full text of 1,338 newspapers and magazines including Moscow Times, Vecherniaia Moskva, Voennaia mysl’, Voprosy literatury, Delovaia Moskva, Izvestiia, Kommersant, Mezhdunarodnaia politika, Nezavisimaia gazeta, Parlamentskaia gazeta (1990), Kommersant Izvestiya (1991), Moscow Times, Argumenty i fakty, Moskovskiy komsomolets, and Pravda (1992)
Integrum World Wide (on and off campus) (Click on Enter (no registration) button)
Newspaper Archives
- 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers: This database provides access to over 1,270 newsbooks, newspapers, pamphlets and a variety of other news materials published in England, Ireland and Scotland, plus papers from British colonies in Asia and the Americas. The collection is particularly rich in 18th century London newspapers. All the major titles are included, such as the Daily Courant from 1702 to 1735, the first daily newspaper published in London, and the London Gazette from 1665. Periodicals, such as Tatler (1709-1711) and Spectator (1711-1712), are also included as are English provincial titles from 1712, Irish newspapers (the earliest being the Dublin Intelligence of 1691), Scottish newspapers from 1708 onwards, and many 18th century American newspapers, including the New England Courant (1721-1723)
Individual titles can be searched on ejournals@cambridge A-Z and in Newton
17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers (on and off campus) - 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
Individual titles can be searched on ejournals@cambridge A-Z and in Newton
19th Century British Library Newspapers (on and off campus) - 19th Century UK Periodicals Series 1 New Readerships: 19th Century UK Periodicals provides access to a good range of nineteenth-century periodical literature published in the UK. It is of particular interest to those researching nineteenth-century history, literature and culture, empire, feminism, the history of the book, the creative and performing arts, sport and leisure, science and medicine, and the professions. The first part (New Readerships) covers Women’s, Children’s, Humour and Leisure/Sport
19th Century UK Periodicals Series 1 New Readerships (on and off campus) - Australian national newspapers: Historica Australian newspapers from 1803-1954 digitized as part of the Australian Newspaper Digitisation Project.
Historical Australian Newspapers, 1803 to 1954 (unrestricted) - British Periodicals 1 and 2: British Periodicals traces the development and growth of the periodical press in Britain from its origins in the seventeenth century through to the Victorian 'age of periodicals' and beyond. On completion this unique digital archive will consist of almost 500 periodical runs published from the 1680s to the 1930s, comprising six million keyword-searchable pages and forming an unrivalled record of more than two centuries of British history and culture. Provides access to the full-text of nearly 460 British popular and literary periodicals published from the 17th century to the early 20th century. Includes amongst others the Anti-Slavery Reporter, London Review, Royal Magazine or Gentleman’s Monthly Companion, some religious titles such as The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine. Topics covered include literature, philosophy, history, science, music, architecture, drama, the fine arts and the social sciences
Individual titles can be searched on ejournals@cambridge A-Z and in Newton
British Periodicals 1 and 2 (on and off campus) - Chronicling America : Historic American newspapers: American newspapers of 1817-1910 from the Library of Congress, including information on American newspapers published between 1690 and the present.
Chronicling America: Historic American newspapers (unrestricted) - Compact Memory: German-Jewish Periodicals and Newspapers from the 18th to 20th centuries: Includes more than 100 Jewish language newspapers and periodicals published in the German-speaking world between 1806 and 1938
Compact Memory: German-Jewish Periodicals and Newspapers from the 18th to 20th centuries - Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003: This archive is a fully searchable complete facsimile edition of The Economist. The database covers 8,000 issues and more than 600,0000 pages, offering full-colour images, multiple search indexes, topic and area supplements and surveys, together with a gallery of front covers (via the browse by date option). Maps, images and financial tables can be searched separately. Selected financial tables published after May 1983 can be exported using links in the blue box to left of the page image
Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003 (on and off campus)
Also available on ejournals@cambridge A-Z - Exilpresse digital: Deutsche Exilzeitschriften 1933-1945: Based on collections of the Exiled German Archive 1933-1945 at the German Library in Frankfurt am Main and related collections of exile literature in Leipzig, this digital collection contains a digitized selection of 30 (out of 900) periodicals from the Nazi period from a broad range of subjects. They were published in German in places as diverse as New York, Paris, Shanghai and London. Several, but not all, of the newspapers are Jewish publications, such as the Shanghai Jewish Chronicle; Jüdaisches Nachrichtenblatt (The Jewish Voice, Shanghai); Gemeindeblatt der Jüdischen Kultusgemeinde (Shanghai); and Ordo (Paris)
Exilpresse digital: Deutsche Exilzeitschriften 1933-1945 - Gallica: La presse quotidienne: Newspapers from 19th to early 20th centuries from the Bibliothèque nationale de France, including Le Figaro (1830-1942), Le Temps (1861-1935), La Croix (1883-1944), L'Humanité (1904-1944), La Press (1836-1858), and Le journal des débats (1814-1912).
Gallica (unrestricted) - Guardian & Observer: In the ProQuest Historical Newspapers series, the full text of the Guardian from 1821 to 2003 and of its sister newspaper, the Observer, from 1791 to 2003.
Guardian & Observer - Illustrated London News Historical Archive: Fully searchable archive of all issues from 1842 to 2003 of the world's renowned pictorial weekly newspaper.
Illustrated London News (on and off campus) - Izvestiia digital archive: Full text searchable database of the official newspaper, from the first issue of 1917, of the Soviet Union and from the Union's dissolution the national newspaper of Russia.
Izvestiia digital archive - Mass Media in Russia 1908-1918: This collection comprises penny newspapers documenting political and social developments in Russia in the pivotal years from 1908 to 1918
Mass Media in Russia 1908-1918 (on campus only) - NAVER News Library: News Library provides high quality news archive services for 4 major newspapers in Korea: Han’gyore (1988-1999); Kyonghyang Sinmun (1946-1999); Maeil Kyongje (1967-1999); Tonga Ilbo (1920-1999)
NAVER News Library (unrestricted) - NewspaperSG: National Library of Singapore: Historica newspapers from Singapore and Malaya published between 1831 and 1989, including The Straits Times 1845-1989.
NewspaperSG: National Library of Singapore (unrestricted) - Nineteenth Century Serials Edition: A free online edition of six nineteenth-century periodials and newspapers
Nineteenth Century Serials Edition - Papers Past: National Libary of New Zealand: Historica newspapers of New Zealand, covering 1840-1915.
Papers Past: National Libary of New Zealand (unrestricted) - Pravda digital archive, 1912-2009: Full text of the Soviet newspaper ("The Truth") from its roots as an underground publication through its rise to prominence as the main state sanctioned outlet for party propaganda until the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Pravda digital archive, 1912-2009 (on and off campus) - Soviet Cinema: Film Periodicals 1918-1942: This collection includes Soviet film magazines and newspapers from the 1920s and 1930s, reflecting an interesting and fertile period in the history of Russian film
Soviet Cinema: Film Periodicals 1918-1942 (on campus only) - Le Temps: archives historiques: This collection from a partnership led by the Bibliothèque nationale suisse currently includes the Journal de Genève (1826-1991), the Gazette de Lausanne (1803-1991), the Journal de Genève et Gazette de Lausanne (1991-1998) and the Nouveau Quotidien (1991-1998).
Le Temps: archives historiques (unrestricted) - The Times Digital Archive: The entire content of The Times, 1785-1985, including all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching
Times Digital Archive (on and off campus) - The Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive Online: The TLS Centenary Archive offers more than 250,000 reviews, letters, poems, and articles in over 5,000 issues of the TLS in the context in which they were originally published. All articles are fully indexed and searchable by author and/or contributor and the identities of the contributors to the TLS who were published anonymously until 1974 are disclosed for the first time and augmented by biographical sketches
The Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive Online (on and off campus) - Times of India Historical Archive Founded in 1838 (under the title Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce), the Times of India archive from ProQuest Historical Newspapers provides coverage up to 2001. "The world's most widely circulated English daily newspaper", this archive will be of broad interest to the study of colonialism, post-colonialism, British and world history, class and gender, international relations, comparative religion, international economics, terrorism, as well as for the recording and reporting of key historical events and everyday life
Access is also available via the ejournals@cambridge A-Z and in Newton or via the databases A-Z on the eresources@cambridge A-Z page
Times of India (on and off campus)
- New York Times Historical Archive: Long known as the U.S. paper of record, the New York Times has been reporting the news and shaping opinion around the world since 1851. The New York Times Archive (1851-2006) with Index (1851-1993) provides search capability using subject terms and topics for focused and targeted results in combination with searchable full text, full page, and article-level images from the Historical New York Times
Access is also available via the ejournals@cambridge A-Z and in Newton or via the databases A-Z on the eresources@cambridge A-Z page
New York Times Historical Archive (on and off campus)
- Wall Street Journal Historical Archive (1889-1992): The Dow Jones & Company first published The Wall Street Journal in 1889 to serve the financial community. The paper's editorial scope changed in the 1940s to encompass all aspects of business, economics, and consumer affairs, as well as analysis of trends and issues. The Archive offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue
Access is also available via the ejournals@cambridge A-Z and in Newton or via the databases A-Z on the eresources@cambridge A-Z page
Wall Street Journal Historical Archive (on and off campus)
- Washington Post Historical Archive (1877-1991): The Washington Post is the leading source of political and governmental coverage in the U.S and offers award-winning coverage of national and international affairs. Originally, a highly partisan four-page rag paper charting the early days of the Hayes administration, the newspaper changed its tune when it was bought by Eugene Meyer during the Roosevelt administration. "The newspaper shall not be the ally of any special interest but shall be fair and free and wholesome in its outlook on public affairs and public men." (Eugene Meyer). The Archive offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue
Access is also available via the ejournals@cambridge A-Z and in Newton or via the databases A-Z on the eresources@cambridge A-Z page
Washington Post Historical Archive (on and off campus)
British Newspapers 1600-1900: This resource is a comprehensive database of historical British newspapers covering the period 1600 to 1900. It combines the 17th and 18th Century Burney newspapers and the 19th Century British Library Newspapers in a single interface. Users can search the full-text of over 3 million pages of national and regional newspapers, newsbooks and ephemera. Searching options also include browsing newspapers by location and limiting searches to particular publication sections (e.g. advertising, business news, people)
Individual titles can be searched on ejournals@cambridge A-Z and in Newton
19th Century British Library Newspapers (on and off campus)
Catalog of Digital Historical Newspapers (NewspaperCat): An online database providing links to over 1,000 full-text digital newspapers in the United States and Caribbean. The project's current coverage, which began with the Southeastern United States, is growing rapidly and will soon cover all fifty states. The purpose of NewspaperCat is to improve access to historical newspapers digitized by libraries, archives, historical societies and non-profit organizations that remain buried within search engine returns. These newspapers represent a rich source of primary research material. The project is funded by the George A. Smathers Libraries and developed in cooperation with the Digital Library Center of the University of Florida.
NewspaperCat (unrestricted)
Pravda - post-archive (2010-) access up to the current year and latest issue (on and off campus)
News sites
- Africa confidential (on campus only). For over 50 years, Africa confidential has prided itself on its comprehensive network of local correspondents and the connections the title has built up throughout Africa. Began publication in 1960.
- Africa-Asia confidential (on campus only). First published Nov 2007, by Asempa Ltd, the publishers of Africa confidential, Africa-Asia confidential was established to respond to the emerging political and economic relations beetween Africa and Asia, together with the need to understand the implications for Africa.
- Current Digest of the Russian Press. Founded in 1949, each week the digest presents a selection of Russian-language press materials, carefully translated into English.
- Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports (on and off campus). The Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Report has been the United States' principal record of political and historical open source intelligence for nearly 70 years. The original mission of the FBIS was to monitor, record, transcribe, and translate intercepted radio broadcasts from foreign governments, official news services, and clandestine broadcasts from occupied territories. FBIS Daily Reports, 1974–1996 constitutes a unique archive of transcripts of foreign broadcasts and news that provides insight into the second half of the 20th century; many of these materials are firsthand reports of events as they occurred. FBIS Daily Reports, 1974–1996 consist of translated broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements from nations around the globe. These media sources were monitored in their languages of origin, translated into English, and issued by an agency of the US government. Cambridge has access to 5 collections: Middle East and North Africa, 1974-1987; Near East and South Asia, 1987-1996; South Asia, 1980-1987; Sub-Saharan Africa, 1974-1980 and Africa 1987-1996; Eastern Europe, 1974-1996
- Reuters (on campus only)
- BBC Monitoring (within the Library only). BBC Monitoring covers reports from radio, television, news agencies, press and new media in over 150 countries, in over 100 languages, providing a distinctive foreign news and information service from open sources
- World News Connection
- Hansard - House of Commons
- Hansard - House of Lords
- Westlaw (on campus only). This database of legal materials contains also a significant number of national newspapers and newswires, regional newspapers, international newspapers and newswires of business, trade and industry. Select "News" from the navigation bar at the top of the screen.