News and Newspapers
If you are looking for a recent news article from a particular newspaper, see if you can locate the story on the newspaper's website. Otherwise, use one of the following resources:
If you are interested in news stories from a variety of newspaper and broadcast sources, a headline aggregator will link you to articles. Below are some popular aggregators:
Note: A small number of Australian and overseas newspapers are currently received in paper format by the UQ Library. They are held on Level 1 and 2 of the Social Sciences and Humanities Library.
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, use one of the following databases:
Australia / New Zealand Reference Centre
Search the full text of Australian and New Zealand newspapers from 2000 onwards. There are no images or full-page views available on this resource.
Use Factiva to search the full text of hundreds of newspapers from Australia and around the world. Full text is usually available from 1990 onwards. No images or full-page views are available on Factiva.
Media Scan has been indexing newspapers since September 1991 and covers Australian national and metropolitan newspapers.
PressDisplay covers Australian and overseas newspapers for the last 60 days, and display news articles exactly as they appeared in print format.
Note: A small number of Australian and overseas newspapers are currently received in paper format by the UQ Library. They are held on Level 1 and 2 of the Social Sciences and Humanities Library. Otherwise, the newspaper may be available in microfilm at the Fryer Library.
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 online newspaper archives that simplify this process:
Contains a variety of British newspapers and magazines from the 17th century onwards, including The Times and The Sunday Times.
Chronicling America collects many US newspapers from 1860 to 1922.
ICON Newspaper Digitization Projects
ICON provides a database of bibliographic information for over 25,000 newspaper titles.
The Papers Past collection includes New Zealand newspapers dating from 1839 to 1945.
Proquest Historical Newspapers
ProQuest Historical Newspapers offers full-text and full-image articles for significant newspapers dating back to the 18th Century. Coverage includes:
- The New York Times (1851-2006)
- The Guardian (1821-2003)
- The Observer (1791-2003)
- Washington Post (1877-1993)
- Times of India (1838-2001).
Trove Australia Digitised Newspapers
The National Library of Australia, in collaboration the Australian State and Territory Libraries, has digitised out-of-copyright newspapers. Trove collects many historic Australian newspapers, covering 1803 to 1954.
Note: If the newspaper has not been digitised, see if it is available in microfilm. You can access newspapers held in microfilm at the Fryer Library.
Videoclips of news broadcasts from Australian television stations from 2007 onwards are available on the Informit TV News database. Informit TV covers 65 broadcast titles, including:
- 7.30
- ABC News
- The Bolt Report
- A Current Affair
- Foreign Correspondent
- Meet the Press
- Q&A
The Library collects selected Australian television and radio broadcasts from 29 January 1990 onwards. Academic staff and higher degree research students can request broadcast material from the Offair requesting service.
The Library records selected TV and radio broadcasts and makes them available for streaming on your device.
Videoclips of news broadcasts are freely available from major broadcast websites, such as:
Otherwise, content may be available via one of the video search engines:
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