Newspapers and other online news sources from the 17th – 21st centuries: Global and multi-national resources
A guide to historical and current newspapers and news sources, covering the 17th to 21st centuries. Includes searching tips, outline common problems and lists key resources available to Oxford scholars.
BBC MonitoringTracks, translates, summarises and analyses local media sources around the world. Stated specialisms include: Russia, Eastern Europe, Middle East and North Africa, Sub Saharan Africa, Latin America, Asia, Disinformation.
EMIS (Emerging Markets Information Service)EMIS delivers news, company and financial data direct from more than 70 emerging markets in Asia, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Ethnic NewsWatchEthnic NewsWatch is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Designed to provide the "other side of the story," ENW titles offer additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press. Coverage begins in 1990.
Alongside the current module, the complete collection also includes Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989.
Europeana NewspapersA resource giving access to 18 million historic newspaper pages, freely accessible in the public domain. Aims to convert 10 million newspaper pages to full text.
You can search or browse in various ways (title, date, language, library).
FactivaLargely for contemporary newspapers (1980s-). Provides essential news for America and Europe with a collection of more than 10,000 authoritative sources includes thousands of current newspapers. Excellent for national but also local, regional newspapers and specialist or professional news.
Much overlap with Nexis UK. If you can't find a newspapers in Factiva, try Nexis UK.
FBIS – Foreign Broadcast Information Service (1976-1996) [selections]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.
Oxford has access is to the following geographical 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
Latin America, 1974-1996
Soviet Union, 1974-1991
Central Eurasia, 1992-1996
Western Europe, 1974-1996
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.
Nexis UKLargely for contemporary newspapers (1980s-). Vast database that provides access to over 20,000 news sources from all over the world. Particularly excellent for UK, North American, Australia and much of Europe. Its coverage is largely current and recent, but does go back 20 years in some cases. Also includes the BBC Monitoring Service.
For UK newspapers, generally covers broadsheets from 1980s and tabloids and local/ regional newspapers from more recently. (Note: Daily Telegraph starts in 2000. FT is embargoed for 30 days)
Nexis overlaps with Factiva but the two also have unique content. If you can't find a newspaper in Nexis UK, then try also Factiva.
World News Connection Archive 1995-2013Provides access to over 1 million newspaper articles, broadcast transcripts and datelines, from around the world and translated into English by the US Government. The service ceased in 2013.
This resource plots current and some historical newspapers on a world Google map. Find newspapers by title, language or location. Zoom in, browse and connect to the web-presence of the newspaper.
As with all full-text searching you will need to think carefully about your search terms.