Finding newspaper articles

Newspaper databases

• NEXIS  
  Contains the full text of a large number of UK and foreign newspapers from 1980 onwards.
• Factiva
  Also has extensive English language and foreign coverage. Emphasis upon business and trade news. No news alerts. Note that LSE is trialling this service and only has 5 concurrent log ins. If you see a log in box on the right handside of the screen you are not properly logged in. Try again later!
• Latin America 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.
• Gale VewsVault
  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.
• Financial Times Historical Archive 1888-2007
  Access the full text and images from the historic newspaper.
• Proquest Historical Newspapers
  contains the Guardian newspaper 1821-2003 and Observer 1791-2003. Later issues can be accessed via Nexis
• Times Digital Archive 1785-2006
  Full text of the famous newspaper. Includes scanned images of photographs and original advertisements.
• Other foreign language materials can be found in the British Library and SOAS library  

Top tips

• To look at today's headlines do a Google search and consult the homepage of the newspaper.
• But for more in depth academic research always use NEXIS. Connect to it using the links from the Library catalogue. Links from the newspaper homepages and Google searches may not work!
• Find out how more about the other LSE Library newspaper databases. Our Moodle courses The Library Companion for Students and The Library Companion for Researchers. have handouts on how to search for newspaper articles. These provide descriptions of the key LSE databases plus a list of useful free internet resources.