Newspapers and other online news sources from the 17th – 21st centuries: Germany, Austria and Switzerland

The Austrian National Libraries digital newspaper and periodical portal. This resource covers early modern and modern periods but is particularly strong for the 19th and 20th centuries. Good for local Austrian history. Browse by newspaper or by date.

Provides access to digitised historical newspapers from German cultural and scientific institutions, covering 1671 to 1950. A sub-portal of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (German Digital Library), it collates newspaper holdings and collections. You can search full-text or find newspapers via title, place of publication or publication date.

ZEFYS provides currently more than 281.990 issues from 192 historical newspapers from Germany and foreign newspapers in German. Largely useful for 19th and early 20th century.

Search through more than 100 Jewish language newspapers and periodicals published in the German-speaking world between 1806 and 1938. Browse through issues of individual titles by date, or search within titles or across newspapers by article title, article keyword, or author. A full-text search is being developed.

Online access to Provinzial-Correspondenz (PC) (1863-1884), Neueste Mittheilungen (NM) (1882-1894), Teltower Kreisblatt (TK) (1856-1896)

Digital newspaper portal of the Bavarian State Library, Germany. Emphasis is on Bavarian newspapers but others from e.g. Berlin are also selectively present. Covers newspapers from the 17th century to the early 20th century. Options include to select by newspaper title, full-text search or search by date.

The term Fuggerzeitungen is used in the German-speaking world as a general synonym for sixteenth-century handwritten newsletters which were attached to correspondence of the Fugger family, a 15th and 16th century merchant and banking family based in Augsburg. The project has indexed by place, people, and topic these newsletters. They cover the years 1568 to 1605. The news are largely on politics and war.

Includes newspapers in Germany. The emphasis is on historical newspaper holdings; lists of current online editions can be found in the Internet Public Library and elsewhere. General news is the main focus; specialized, narrow, trade or niche newspapers are not well represented. Fairly good coverage of different regions and towns.

A rich and esthetically top-rate German source for the history of the period between the wars with regard to everyday life, culture, communication, design and photography. Our website offers the complete inventories of "Querschnitt", "UHU", "Kriminal-Magazin", "Jüdische Magazin", "Auto-Magazin" and "Revue des Monats", furthermore all issues of the years 1928-1933 of four more titles. Ten of the most important German-language magazines of the period with roughly 650 issues, with 75,000 printed pages and more than 50,000 illustrations have for the first time been compiled virtually and made available to both researchers as well as to readers interested in cultural history.

A digital newspaper collection for literary criticism and literature in the German-speaking world. Includes contributions published in 6 regional daily & weekly newspapers and in 47 other political and cultural magazines, entertainment magazines and magazines of the German-speaking countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, South Tyrol, Liechtenstein and Luxembourg).

Literarische Expressionismus Online provides online access to 151 journals, yearbooks, collections and anthologies of the early 20th century (1910-1930) with almost 79,000 full text pages. Important not only for German literature but also a wide range of subjects including art, film, history, music, politics and theology.

A bibliographical tool to search One million newspaper articles and small pamphlets (theatrical programs, book covers, publishing brochures, announcements, etc.) since the 1960s, of which 800,000 in paper form, and historical special collections (some dating back to 1800). Since 1997, the newspaper clippings have been digitized and can only be used at the Literaturhaus.

Daily, weekly and monthly newspapers and magazines of the entire German-speaking area are evaluated for content on Austrian authors, literary and cultural enterprises, cultural policy, and linguistics.

A resource giving access to digitised 17th century German-speaking newspapers. This is by no means comprehensive. Coverage for Hamburg, Vienna, Frankfurt, Cologne Nuremberg, Bremen and many more.

A digital collection of 160 review and literary journals from the Enlightenment period.

Online from 3 Jan 1994.

Founded in 1904. Hardcopy: 1989:Juli 1/2 - 1989:Dez.30/31-1990:Jan.1 [incomplete holdings]

Founded in 1945.

Online via Nexis.

A weekly newspaper, founded in 1946. Hardcopy: Jahrg.44:Nr.29 (1989:Juli 14) - Jahrg.44:Nr.48 (1989:Nov.24); last six months (term-time only)

Online: archive from 1947- via their website (free access upto 2013). Also available online from 1996 via Factiva .

Founded in 1947 as a weekly news magazine, based in Hamburg. Well known for its investigative journalism. A gallery of covers is available.

Available online from 1997 via Nexis.

Online access to titles digitized by the Swiss National Library and its cantonal partners. Include e.g. St.Galler Zeitung 1831 - 1881, Le Journal de Genève, l Grigione italiano 1852 – 2011, Die Ostschweiz 1874 - 1900, Zuger Volksblatt 1861 - 1900, etc.

Provides full-text for the following three French Swiss newspapers: Gazette de Lausanne (1798-1998), Le nouveau quotidien (1991-1998), Journal de Genève (1826-1998)

A small but growing digital library of local history materials.offered by the Aarguer Kantonsbibliothek, Switzerland. Content is mostly relevant for the 19th century.

Available via Factiva or Nexis.

Hardcopy: 28 Jan 1915-11 Jan 1916, Dec 1939-Dec 1964 [imperfect]; 1965:1/172(1965:Jan)-1994:Dec [microfilm]