The Library has access to current and historical news, press releases, magazines, trade journals, newsletters, broadcast transcripts, video, newsletters and blogs. The following resources provide a starting point, but for specialist advice you should consult the Subject guides|. All those listed (apart from the free resources) require your LSE username and password to gain access.
UK Newspapers
Nexis
Nexis| is the most important resource for access to UK national and regional newspapers from 1980 onwards. Most titles are updated daily. However, some titles such as the Financial Times have 24 hour embargos. The database includes both national and regional tabloid newspapers. The database also has the ability to allow you to create search alerts.
Access the full text of the national newspaper between 1875 and 2006, including images.
17th-18th Century Burney Collection of Newspapers
Access the full text of a large collection of early English newspapers|, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) . Over 1,270 titles are available covering a wide range of topics relating to 17th-18th Century English social, economic and political history. Key topics include slavery and abolition, the English civil war and restoration . The database also offers some background on the historical development of English newspaper publishing.
19th Century British Library newspapers
The full text of 48 British newspapers published during the 19th Century |selected from the British Library collections. They include regional and national newspapers (but exclude famous broadsheets such as the Times and Guardian) There are many notable examples of Chartist and radical press newspapers. Photographs, graphs and original visual layouts are available on the database.
Financial Times Historical Archive 1888-2007
The Financial Times Historical Archive |delivers the complete searchable run of the world's most authoritative daily business newspaper. Every item ever printed in the paper, from 1888-2007, can be searched and browsed article by article and page by page.
Factiva
Factiva.com| combines more than 28,000 sources to give access to premium content from 159 countries in 23 languages. Factiva contains more than 28,000 sources including US and international newspapers and continuously updated newswires, trade journals, websites, blogs, and multimedia. Please note Factiva is limtied to five users at a time.
Gale NewsVault
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Gale NewsVault| lets you cross-search a number of leading historocal collections including the 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers; 19th Century British Library Newspapers; 19th Century UK Periodicals and Times Digital Archive.
Foreign Newspapers
Pravda
First issued in 1912 by the Russian Social Democratic (Bol'shevik) Party, from 1917 Pravda| became the official voice of the Soviet Communist Party and government . The archive covers the period from 1917 to 2009 in full text. and is a prime source for all Russian / Soviet history, politics, economics, international relations and culture. The earlier issues from 1912 are held on microfilm at Film M (R134).
Current Digest of the post-Soviet Press Online
Online version of the Current Digest of the post-Soviet Press |contains abstracts of Soviet/Post-Soviet press articles translated into English. Coverage begins in 2001.
Eastview Russian databases
The Eastview Russian databases |service aggregates content from a variety of Russian and post-Soviet state sources including Russian national and regional newspapers and government publications, allowing you search across them at the same time.
Latin American database
The Latin American database |consists of three news digests from the Latin American Institute of the University of New Mexico. SourceMex covers economic and political news and analysis of Mexico, NotiSur political, economic and social issues in South America, NotiCen Central American and Caribbean political and economic affairs, including Cuba. The newsletters are based on many sources from international newswires, Latin American radio broadcasts and selected newspapers, official and non-governmental reports. They are particularly strong on statistics and on human-rights issues. Publication is electronically weekly with each issue available in full on the site. There is also a full text archive searchable by date or keyword of all issues from 1986.
Mideastwire.com
Mideastwire.com| provides access to English translations and summaries of news stories and articles that have appeared in the media of the 22 Arab countries, Iran and the Arab Diaspora. It is possible to search all articles from 2005 onwards. Updates are made daily. Topics covered include: politics, economic; business and society.
Free resources
For a list of free newspaper resources on the internet chosen by the Library, please click here|.
Historical print newspapers
The Library has 700 newspapers only a minority of which are current. The collection is very varied in its coverage of politics and campaigning issues. There are runs of "Labour leader" and "Clarion" (Independent Labour Party), "Votes for women", 1907-1918, "Sanity" published by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, 1962-1976, "Shelter Campaign news", 1987-1992. There are titles which may have only appeared for a few years - examples being - "Dare to struggle" (1970), "Portugal libre" (1970-1975), "Camden tenant" (1972-1983), "Troops out" (1976-1987), "Scottish nation" (1923), and "Ulsterman" (1975-1976).
In addition there is a large collection of political journals in foreign languages, including titles which were published in Eastern Europe - "Einheit" , 1946-1989 (Germany) and "Lupta de clasa", 1906-1976 (Romania).
Newspapers are kept in closed access and must be fetched by request from the Service Counter. This also applies to trades union journals with a COLL E.D. classification and some journals which are in the Serials Store. If in doubt staff at the Help Desk will assist you when you come into the Library.
Note also that there are a large number of journals and newspapers which the Library holds are on microfilm. These also must be fetched on request. When completing a fetch slip add the number for the microfilm or newspaper and the years that you require.