The Library has access to a variety of electronic resources containing newspapers and articles. 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 (formerly LexisNexis News)|
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.
Times Digital Archive 1785-1985|
Access the full text of the national newspaper between 1875 and 1985, 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 19 th 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.
Foreign Newspapers
Current Digest of the post-Soviet Press Online|
Online version of the database which contains abstracts of Soviet/Post-Soviet press articlestranslated into English. Coverage begins in 2001.
Eastview Russian databases|
This 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 America Data Base|
This 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|
This database 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.
People's Daily|
People's Daily is the most influential and authoritative newspaper in China. People's Daily brings you the latest news dispatches of policy information and resolutions of the Chinese Government and major domestic news and international news releases from China. It reflects the views of the people, advocates justice and condemns malpractice. Online archive available in Chinese from 1948 onwards.
Free resources
For a list of free newspaper resources on the internet chosen by the Library, please click here|.