Many daily newspapers have their own websites. While these offer free acess to the latest headlines, searchable back files are offered via the Library subscription services listed below.you can also view the full list online|

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!
Gale NewsVault
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.
Proquest Historical newspapers - includes the full text of the Guardian 1821-2003 and the 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.
Financial Times Historical Archive 1888-2007

Foreign Newspapers

Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press
Abstracts of newspaper stories translated from approximately 2001 onwards.
Latin America Data base
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
Provides access to English translations and summaries of news stories and articles that have appeared in the media of over 20 Arab countries, Iran and the Arab Diaspora. It is possible to search all articles from 2005 onwards.
Eastview Russian Databases
Includes the Universal Database of Russian Newspapers for access to the full-text files of over 30 of the most influential Russian newspapers of Moscow and St. Petersburg, and 80 regional newspapers, Russian Duma Publications for parliamentary news and analysis, and the Universal Database of Statistical Publications.

Internet sites

An increasing number of newspapers offer some free content online
Online Newspapers
is a good directory.
NewsNow Portal
A leading news portal with updates from leading services worldwide.
SiloBreaker
A news and current awareness service which aggregates news blogs, video and audio resources.
Many more links to key news services and digital libraries can be found on the LSE delicious website.

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!
If you can not find the newspapers you need try consulting the collections of the British Library . There is a good page of listings of newspaper directories.
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.