At UEA, you have access to millions of pages of newspaper and magazine content. You could use these to follow personal interests or catch up with news. But they are also a valuable source of information for your studies, providing both factual information and opinions along with useful reports, reviews, interviews, images and data. Although not academic sources, if you pay some attention to their context and are alert to potential biases, they can provide rich research content.
This short video provides important information about our newspaper and magazine collections and gives you some good places to start looking.
It can be a challenge to find and access newspaper and magazine content. This guide is intended to help.
Some of our magazine and newspaper articles can be found via a Library Search, but most will not be listed there. So if you are looking for this kind of content you might be better off going directly to one of the resources listed below.
Our main newspaper and magazine collections are listed in the Database A-Z, but only a few of the individual newspaper or magazine titles are there. So to check whether we have an individual title you should look at the Journal A-Z. While this contains many of the magazines and newspapers we have, some are not indexed there and will only be found by searching or browsing relevant collections.
Online newspaper collections are very expensive and some are not available for institutional subscription, so there are collections/titles we don't have. If you're after a particular article in a title UEA doesn't have, and have a reference, then try Interlending. But if you want to do a more extensive search, you might need to visit another library or take out a personal subscription. Some of these options are also listed below.
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7,000 titles (approx.), including: Daily Mail (2005-), Daily Mirror (2003-), Daily Telegraph (2005-), Daily Star (2003-), Guardian and Observer (latest 2 weeks only), El Pais (1976-), Hindu (2005-), Independent (2006-), La Figaro (2005-), Los Angeles Times (2005-), Times of India (2003-), Washington Post (2003-) You can browse the PressReader catalog or search across the full collection |
| Gale Research Complete: News |
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2686 titles, including: Daily Mail (1996-), Daily Mirror (2014-), Daily Telegraph (2000-), Eastern Daily Press (2011-), Financial Times (1999-30 day embargo), Guardian (1990-), Observer (1993-), Independent (1996-), The Sun (1997-), Times (1985-), Times of India (2005-), New York Times (1995-), Washington Post (2014-) You can search across the full collection or use Publication Search to find a particular title |
| Financial Times | Up to date access to the Financial Times is available via the FT website. Sign up with UEA email to access all articles from 2005 to present. | |
| Nexis | Please note that we no longer have access to the Nexis database. Gale Research Complete offers an alternative. |
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| Gale Primary Sources |
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You can search across all the newspapers or limit your search to particular title(s) |
| ProQuest Historic Newspapers |
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These are better searched individually. |
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Recent and current issues, ranging from a few months to several years You can browse the PressReader catalog or search across the whole collection |
| Gale Research Complete |
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You can search across these and other titles in the collection or use Publication Search to find a particular title |
| Other magazines |
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Register and then log-in with your UEA email to gain access |
| Gale Primary Sources |
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You can search across these magazines or limit your search to particular title(s) |
| ProQuest |
Facsimile For a few titles we only have main articles rather than the full content of the magazine. Best used on desk/laptop |
You can search across these titles or collections or select a particular collection to search |
In addition to the paid for collections above, there are many free historic newspapers available online. These links will help you find some of them:
We are unable to subscribe to these collections as an institution, but it is possible to pick up a personal subscription. Some of the content in them will be available in UEA's Collections.
In addition to many of the collections above, the following newspapers and newspaper collections are available electronically in the British Library Reading Rooms in London and Boston Spa:
You will need to register as a reader and double check availability before visiting. Note that many of the Readex/Newsbank Collections are also available to access remotely if you have a British Library card.
You can search across the catalogues of more than 180 UK libraries (mostly university libraries) at the Jisc Library Hub. This searches books, journals and many magazine and newspaper titles:.
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Some of the newspaper and magazine resources we have will enable you to generate references, though you will need to check they are consistent with whatever referencing style you are using. For useful information on referencing, including how to reference magazines and newspapers, see Cite Them Right.
For queries about using the library building, booking study spaces, accessing electronic resources and finding and borrowing print books, email the Library Helpdesk at lib.helpdesk@uea.ac.uk.
For more in-depth subject support, you can email the Teaching Librarians at lib.teaching@uea.ac.uk.
For help with teaching resources and subscriptions, you can email the Library Business Partners at lib.businesspartner@uea.ac.uk
