Details on the many online newspapers to which UCL subscribes, and how UCL staff and students can find and access them.
We subscribe to many newspapers online which UCL staff and students can access by searching for them in Explore, or finding them in the e-journals A-Z list and listed collections.
Current news
Thousands of current newspapers from around the world can be accessed through the following sources:
- Nexis
- International Newsstream (via ProQuest News and Newspapers)
- Lexis+ UK (for UK broadsheets and more via Newspapers on the Home page)
- Gale One File News
We also subscribe directly to FT.com.
Earlier news sources
For earlier news sources we have access to:
- The Illustrated London News 1842-2003
- The Times Digital Archive 1785-2019
- British Library Newspapers
- Daily Mail Historical Archive, 1896-2004
- Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2010
- Telegraph Historical Archive, 1855-2016
- The Guardian and The Observer
These are all available via Gale Primary Sources, except the Guardian/Observer Archive which comes via Proquest Historical Newspapers.
Also available via Proquest Historical Newspapers are a number of American newspapers and other international titles including:-
- The Atlanta Constitution 1868-1945.
- Baltimore Sun, The 1837-1986.
- Boston Globe 1872 - 1979.
- Chicago Defender 1910-1975.
- Chicago Tribune 1849-1988.
- The Christian Science Monitor 1908-1998.
- Hartford Courant 1764-1986.
- The Korea Times 1956 - 2016.
- Le Monde 1944 - 2000.
- Los Angeles Times 1881-1988.
- The New York Times 1851-2008.
- New York Tribune 1841-1922.
- San Francisco Chronicle 1865-1922.
- South China Morning Post 1903 - 2001.
- The Times of India 1838 - 2010.
- The Wall Street Journal 1889-1994.
- The Washington Post 1877-1995.
We also have access to a number of collections via Readex including:-
- African American Newspapers, Series 1, 1827-1998.
- African American Newspapers, Series 2, 1835-1956.
- African Newspapers : The British Library Collection.
- Caribbean newspapers, 1718-1876.
- Latin American newspapers, series 1 : 1805-1922.
- Latin American newspapers, series 2 : 1805-1922.
Civil War: Antebellum to Reconstruction features more than 150 newspapers from all regions of the United States.
Newspapers and resources freely available
The following useful resources are available to all.
- Welsh newspapers 1804-1919 are freely available from the National Library of Wales.
- Australian newspapers and more are available in Trove.
- Onlinenewspapers.com and ABYZ News Links are useful directories to openly available newspaper content from around the world.
- The British Library's Newsroom has access to additional content and can offer further specialist advice.