News resources
Find out about online news collections available at LSE Library.
Our subscription services aggregate many hundreds of full text newspapers and press wires allowing you to search quickly by keyword. Note that images and some features may not be included in the results.
Most of our newspaper databases have strict limits on the amount of items you can download per session. Read our text and data mining guidance.
For large scale data projects, involving newspapers we recommend TDM Studio.
Current news
- Nexis - contains the full text of many UK and overseas newspapers. Check the sources section for individual dates and coverage.
- Factiva - international news database produced by Dow Jones which includes newspapers and business wires.
- FT.com - register with your LSE email for the latest articles from the Financial Times months before they appear on Nexis and Factiva.
- Economist - current issues via ProQuest One Business. Historical issues via Gale Archive 1843-2020.
- BoB National (Box of Broadcasts) - access programmes and transcripts from mainly UK TV and radio channels.
Foreign news
Recent editions of foreign newspapers can be accessed through Nexis and Factiva.
Other resources include:
- Eastview Russian Databases - includes Current Digest of the Russian Press - weekly English translations of Russian press materials; Universal Database of Russian Central Newspapers (UDB-COM) - 40 Russian language newspapers.
- LatinNews - newsletters providing information on recent political and economic developments in Latin America and the Caribbean.
- Mideastwire.com - English translations and summaries of Middle Eastern news stories.
- Peoples Daily (Renmin Ribao) - official newspaper of the central government of the People's Republic of China. Available in Chinese from 1946 onwards.
- The Morning Context (India) - reportage and analysis from India on finance and banking, corporates and large companies, start ups, technology and social media, environment, government policy, culture, sports, economy and politics.
Historical news
Both Nexis and Factiva contain some back files of individual newspapers. More extensive coverage can be found on these sources:
- Caribbean newspapers 1718-1876 - over 160 publications from nations including Antigua, Haiti and Jamaica.
- EastView newspaper databases - includes Pravda Digital Archive- official newspaper of Soviet Central Committee of the Communist Party 1912 -1991.
- Gale NewsVault - includes 17th to 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers; 19th Century British Library Newspapers; Times Digital Archive 1785 -2019; Financial Times Historical Archive 1888 -2016; Daily Mail Historical Archive, 1896 -2004; Economist Historical Archive, 1843 -2020; Telegraph Historical Archive, 1855- 2000. ProQuest historical newspapers : The New York Times, 1851-2010
- ProQuest historical newspapers: Guardian 1821 to 2003 and Observer 1791 to 2003
- ProQuest historical newspapers: New York Times 1851 to 2010
- ProQuest historical newspapers: Times of India 1838 to 2011
- ProQuest historical newspapers: Wall Street Journal 1889 to 1922. Issues from 1991 onwards are on Factiva
- World newspaper archive - includes African Newspapers 1800 -1922 (Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe). Latin American Newspapers series 1 & 2, 1805-1922 (Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Venezuela.)
Note: The ProQuest historical newspapers, including Guardian 1821 to 2003 and Observer 1791 to 2003, New York Times 1851 to 2020 and Times India 1838 to 2011 are available for text and data mining via Proquest TDM. See Text and Data Mining (TDM) guidance.