The list below provides links to newspaper and news service Internet sites, and newspaper indexes. Personal registration is necessary for some of these sites. University holdings of CD-ROM, microfilm and print format news sources are also shown.
The following sites provide further links to national, local and foreign newspapers
All broadsheets (with the exception of Financial Times [FT]) and a wide range of regional newspapers are available online via Lexis Library. Please follow the link to the A-Z List of Electronic Journals and perform a search for the newspaper that you require.
ABI/INFORM Global
Information type: Newspaper articles (Financial Times and The Economist)
Description: Most scholarly and comprehensive way to explore and understand business research topics. Search nearly 3000 worldwide business periodicals for in-depth coverage of business and economic conditions, management techniques, theory, and practice of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Expanded international coverage. Fast access to information on 60,000 + companies with business and executive profiles. Now includes The Wall Street Journal.
Note: As of 1st August, the Financial Times (via ABI/INFORM Global) incurs a 30 day embargo. 3 months paper copy is held at Park library for full text access.
BBC News
Available on the Internet
Description: Current UK and international news
Bristol Evening News
Available on the Internet
Description: Local news for the Bristol area
British Newspapers 1600-1900
Description: The British Newspapers 1600-1900 is the most significant digital collection of British historic newspapers. New conservation and imaging techniques and a new cross-searchable platform adopted by the British Library offers unparalleled access and discoverability to this valuable historical and cultural archive. In addition one will find specially commissioned essays and contextual materials written by expert scholars intended to help non-specialist users with perspective and analysis.
CNN
Available on the Internet
Description: International news from online news provider based in Atlanta, USA
Daily Telegraph
Available on the Internet through Lexis Library,
Last month's back copies of Daily Telegraph available at Park Library
Description: UK broadsheet newspaper
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports 1974 - 1996
Information Type: Full Text
Description: The Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Report has been the United States' principal record of political and historical open source intelligence for nearly 70 years.
Guardian
Available on the Internet through Lexis Library,
Last month's back copies of newspaper available at Park Library
Description: UK broadsheet newspaper
Independent
Available on the Internet through Lexis Library,
Last month's back copies of newspaper available at Park Library
Description: UK broadsheet newspaper
Lexis Library
Description: Provides articles from a large number of UK regional and national newspapers, both tabloid and broadsheet, some going as far back as 1982.
NewsBank InfoWeb
Available on the Internet
Description: Current affairs news site with a number of special and archived reports.
Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers
Information type: Newspapers
Description: contains full runs of 48 influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of the 19th century British society.
Observer
Available on the Internet through Lexis Library,
Description: UK broadsheet sunday newspaper
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Collection
Information type: Newspaper articles
Description: The newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757 - 1817) represent the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media. The 700 or so bound volumes of newspapers and news pamphlets were published mostly in London, however there are also some English provincial, Irish and Scottish papers, and a few examples from the American colonies, Europe and India.
This is Gloucestershire
Available on the Internet
Gloucestershire Echo: one month back copies at Park Libary
Description: Local newspapers for Cheltenham, Gloucester and Gloucestershire
Times and Sunday Times
Available on the Internet through Lexis Library,
Last month's back copies of Times available at Park Library.
Description: UK broadsheet newspaper also published on sundays
Times Educational Supplement
Three months back copies available at FCH Library
Description: UK weekly educational newspaper Searchable archive from 1994
Times Higher Education Supplement
Six months back copies available at Park Library
Three months back copies available at FCH Library
Description: UK weekly higher education newspaper. Searchable archive from 1994.