Many newspapers maintain a website with breaking news,
updated frequently. Usually they provide free access to articles in the
latest issue of the newspaper.
If you know the name of a suitable newspaper, you can probably locate it
using a web search engine. Otherwise, the following site is useful:
A small number of Australian and overseas newspapers are
currently received in paper format by the UQ Library. They
are mainly held in the Social Sciences and Humanities Library.
If you are interested in news stories from a variety of newspaper and
broadcast sources, a headline aggregator will link you to
articles. The following are popular aggregators:
Newspaper websites rarely provide free access to their archives of older
stories. If you are looking for news from the last few months, or the last
few years, you will need to use one of the databases that
the UQ Library subscribes to:
Factiva
Search the full text of hundreds of newspapers from Australia and around
the world. Full text is usually available back to the 1990s. No images or
full-page views.
Australia
/ New Zealand Reference Centre
Search the full text of Australian and New Zealand newspapers back to
about 2000. Full-text is available, but there are no images or full-page
views.
If you need to see page layout views, showing the
newspaper stories exactly as published, you should use the PressDisplay
database. This includes the last 60 days of many newspapers
from Australia and overseas.
Page layout views are also available on microfilm copies
of newspapers. The UQ Library keeps paper copies of several major Australian
newspapers for a few months, until they are replaced with microfilm copies. A
very small number of overseas newspapers are also held on microfilm.
Videoclips of news broadcasts from Australian television stations from
2007 onwards are available on the Informit TV
News database.
Videoclips of news broadcasts from recent years may be available from
websites of major broadcasters. Otherwise it is worth trying major video
search engines on the web:
Newspapers are a wonderful resource for historical research. Historians
spend long hours browsing through runs of newspapers in paper or microfilm
format. Fortunately there are now some full-text newspaper archives that
simplify this process:
Useful site for locating other digitised newspapers from around
the world.
If the newspaper has not been digitised, researchers still have to search
it laboriously on microfilm. Information on newspapers held in microfilm by
the UQ Library can be found on the Library
website.
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