Newspapers
Discover a variety of newspapers on library search, and gain insights into current affairs and historical events tailored for research and learning.
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Newspapers are a great way to find out what is happening in the world. They show what people care about now and in the past.
- The quality of newspaper articles can differ, so it’s important to check if they are fair and accurate. Still, newspapers can be very useful if you think carefully about what you read.
- They can show you what people thought about an event when it happened, like a film review, a protest, or a new law.
- Newspapers give different opinions and points of view. They can help you compare ideas and themes, which you can explore more with other sources.
- They also help you understand the details of an event, the background, and how things have changed over time.
- Newspapers can help with research for academic projects and job hunting. For example, websites like Factiva and FT.com can help you learn about companies before an interview.
Many UK newspapers let you read recent articles for free on their websites. The Library also has great tools that make it easy to search many newspapers at once.
Newspaper sources
These resources are available in Library Search.
Gale OneFile News - Contains articles from major British and American national newspapers, and local and regional newspapers. It has an extensive collection of global publications. Watch our video, Finding articles in Gale OneFile News for help and advice.
Lexis+ UK Legal Research - Primarily a source for legal information, but also a key resource for articles from UK national and regional newspapers. Select the Content tab from the bar across the top of the home page. Then select Newspapers, to limit your search. For further help watch the video Using Lexis+ to find newspaper articles.
Financial Times Online - We provide full access. Register for a personal FT.com account when you first access it. The registration form asks for your email address - please use your University of Salford email address. Once registered you can follow topics of interest, set up alerts. And save stories to read later. Take the My FT tour to find out more about it.
Newsstream Newspapers - This covers the US, Canada and international newspapers, including some British titles. They include:
- The Bangkok Post
- El Norte
- Jerusalem Post
- South China Morning Post
- Chicago Tribune
- Los Angeles Times
- New York Times
- The Wall Street Journal
- The Washington Post
Please note: the most recent issues are not available for some titles.
Factiva (Dow Jones) - Provides access to global news sources. There is a business focus, though it can be used to search for any information on any current news topic. Factiva allows you to mark and export multiple news stories into a single file for easy data analysis.
Historical newspapers and archives
Found within Library Search:
Gale Primary Sources provides access to a huge number of historical newspapers and archives including:
- Archives Unbound
- British Library Newspapers 1800 - 1950
- British Periodicals
- Burney Collection
- Daily Mail Historical Archive
- The Economist Historical Archive
- Financial Times Historical Archive 1888 - 2016
- The Independent Historical Archive 1986 - 2016
- Listener Historical Archive 1929 - 1991
- The Mirror Historical Archive 1903-2000
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online
- Picture Post Historical Archive 1938-1957
- The Sunday Times Historical Archive
- Telegraph Historical Archive 1855 - 2016
- The Times Digital Archive 1785 - 2014
- The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive 1902 - 2013
- The ProQuest Guardian and Observer Archive
- British Online Archives
- First World War: Propaganda and Recruitment (Adam Matthew)
- South Eastern Gazette.
Free online newspaper archives:
- US newspaper archives covers US newspapers between 1789 and 1963.
- The British Newspaper archive is an ever-expanding archive of historical newspapers, providing mostly UK content (dating from 1700), with some international coverage.
Print newspapers - to be read in the Library
Clifford Whitworth
- The Times
- The Guardian
Find them on the ground floor, on the tables in the seating area next to the Tech Bar.
MediaCityUK
- The Times
- The Guardian
- The Telegraph
- The Daily Mail
All located opposite the Enquiry Desk on the 3rd floor.
Explore our newspaper databases on Library Search
A full list of all our specialist newspaper databases is available in Library Search.
Contact your Academic Support Librarian if you need further help.