Newspapers
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ABC
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Academic OneFile
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- EndNote information
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Subject coverage: Arts, humanities, social sciences, science and technology. Includes academic journals, magazines and newspapers (including the Financial Times and the New York Times)
Date range: 1980-
Updated: Daily
Data retrieved: Abstracts with some full text and images
Service provider: Cengage
Access notes: Full-text articles available in HTML
Off-campus users will be taken to the MMU login screen where you may login with your MMU network ID and password.
If you are off-campus and following a link to an individual journal title from Find it! or the library catalogue, please follow these instructions:
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BBC News
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British Library Newspaper Library
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Website of the British Library's collection of British and overseas newspapers, described as "the only large, integrated, national newspaper service in the world, combining facilities for the collection, preservation, and use of newspapers all on one site". Includes links to Web-based newspaper resources and an illustrated history of the development of British newspapers.
British Newspapers 1600-1900
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Subject coverage: Full-text British newspapers
Date range: 1600-1900
Service provider: Gale Cengage Learning
Access notes: This service allows you to cross-search the 19th Century British Library Newspapers Collection Part I and Part II with the the Burney Collection (17th-18th century newspapers).
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Burney Collection (17th - 18th Century Newspapers)
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Subject coverage: multidisciplinary
Date range: 17th - 18th century
Data retrieved: newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817). Totals almost 1 million pages and contains approximately 1,270 titles. A title list is available.
Service provider: Gale Cengage Learning
Access notes: The Burney Collection may be cross-searched with the 19th Century British Library Newspapers collection by using the British Newspapers 1600-1900 link within InfoTrac.
Off-campus users will be taken to the MMU login screen where you may login with your MMU network ID and password.
Business Wire
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Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
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"This site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1860-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP)."
CNN Interactive
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Corriere della Sera
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DailyNewspaper
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A resource for all the major UK daily newspapers.
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Echos
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French equivalent to the Financial Times.
F
Financial Times
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Free access to Financial Times news articles, plus stock market news and statistics. For full text access to back issues of the Financial Times, use the subscribed service Academic OneFile
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Gale NewsVault
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Subject coverage: multidisciplinary
Date range: 17th - 19th century
Data retrieved: Cross-searches newspapers, pamphlets, and books from the Burney Collection (17th - 18th Century Newspapers), 19th Century British Library Newspapers and 19th Century UK Periodicals. Totals over 10 million pages and contains approximately 1,400 titles.
Service provider: Gale Cengage Learning
Access notes: The collections may be searched individually, by using the appropriate link within InfoTrac.
Off-campus users will be taken to the MMU login screen where you may login with your MMU network ID and password.
Guardian
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Includes Online section for computer and IT related articles plus interesting 'hot links'.
Guardian (1821-2003) and Observer (1791-2003)
Available only outside MMU (Manchester Libraries login required)
Subject coverage: multidisciplinary
Date range: 18th - 21st century
Data retrieved: newspapers
Service provider: ProQuest
Access notes: When prompted please enter your Manchester Libraries borrower number in the library barcode login box.
Access is only available to members of Manchester Public Libraries (joining information). You may need to visit the Manchester Libraries in order to collect your membership details. Any problems with the resource are not the responsibility of MMU Library, and should be forwarded to libraries@manchester.gov.uk or 0161 234 1983. We cannot guarantee continued access as Manchester Libraries' policies and collections may change.
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International Herald Tribune
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LexisLibrary
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Subject coverage: Law, full-text newspapers
Updated: Daily
Data Retrieved:
- LexisLibrary includes full text up-to-date access to all UK inforce legislation; a case search facility and access to a number of full text law reports series including the England Law Reports Service, Company Cases, Human rights and Industrial Law Reports. The database includes individual sections for all subject areas of law which include specific resources for each subject. Alerts and current awareness updates can also be set up using this database.
- Full-text articles from a range of UK national and regional newspapers, including:
- Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday
- Daily Star and Sunday Star
- Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
- Guardian
- Independent
- Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror
- Observer
- Sun
- News of the World
- Sunday Express
- Times and Sunday Times
- Times Educational Supplement
- Times Higher Educational Supplement
- Liverpool Echo
- Evening Standard (London)
- Manchester Evening News
Access notes: From the LexisLibrary homepage, click on the News tab to search for newspapers.
Liberation
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Today's issue of the quality French newspaper Liberation.
Los Angeles Times
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M
Mirror
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Monde
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Mundo
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Daily news, plus a summary of the previous week's news.
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National Newspapers at BUBL
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Links to UK National newspapers on the Internet. Maintained by BUBL.
New York Times
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Free access to current online issue, which contains most of the items published in the current newspaper. There is an archive of a year - some articles available free, but generally payment is required.
We also have full text access from 1985 onwards via Academic OneFile.
Newsbank
Available within MMU and outside MMU (Manchester Libraries login required)
Subject coverage: multidisciplinary
Date range: late 20th - 21st century
Data retrieved: newspapers
Service provider: InfoWeb
Access notes: When prompted please enter your Manchester Libraries borrower number in the library barcode login box.
Access is only available to members of Manchester Public Libraries (joining information). You may need to visit the Manchester Libraries in order to collect your membership details. Any problems with the resource are not the responsibility of MMU Library, and should be forwarded to libraries@manchester.gov.uk or 0161 234 1983. We cannot guarantee continued access as Manchester Libraries' policies and collections may change.
NewsNow.co.uk
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This site supplies the latest headlines from leading news sources. It's organized into four sections: Current Affairs, Business and Finance, Information Technology and Sport.
Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers
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Subject coverage: Contains full runs of 48 influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of the 19th century British society.
Date range: 1800-1900
Service provider: Gale Cengage Learning
Access notes: The 19th Century British Library Newspapers collection may be cross-searched with the the Burney Collection (17th-18th century newspapers) by using the British Newspapers 1600-1900 link within InfoTrac.
This service includes only Part I of the full Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers collection. Part II is searchable only via British Newspapers 1600-1900. Part II provides an additional 22 newspapers from areas such as Nottingham, Bradford, Leicester, Sheffield, and York as well as North Wales. "The selection of predominantly liberal, left-of centre or radical publications in Part I has been balanced in Part II by the inclusion of two London newspapers, The Standard and the Morning Post, which for most of the 19th century represented conservative opinion".
Off-campus users will be taken to the MMU login screen where you may login with your MMU network ID and password.
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Pais
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Web site gives access to current issue plus previous week's issues.
Palmer's Full Text Online
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Subject coverage:An index to the Times in the nineteenth century.
Date range: 1790 - 1905 with full text from 1800 to 1870
Service provider: Proquest
Access notes:For off-campus use, this service requires a login. Follow the link for accessing it from outside MMU and you will see the login details after first entering your MMU network ID and password. Make a note of the details, follow the link to the service, and then log in as required.
Paperboy
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Provides links to web versions of over 5200 international newspapers.
Press association
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Repubblica
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Stampa
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Times (Palmer's Full Text Online)
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See Palmer's Full Text Online (follow link above).
Times Digital Archive 1785-1985
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Subject coverage: multidisciplinary
Date range: 18th - 20th century
Data retrieved: newspapers
Service provider: Gale Cengage Learning
Access notes: When prompted enter MAN followed by your Manchester Libraries borrower number in the library barcode login box.
Access is only available to members of Manchester Public Libraries (joining information). You may need to visit the Manchester Libraries in order to collect your membership details. Any problems with the resource are not the responsibility of MMU Library, and should be forwarded to libraries@manchester.gov.uk or 0161 234 1983. We cannot guarantee continued access as Manchester Libraries' policies and collections may change.
Times Educational Supplement
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This website provides online access to a selection of news stories and features from The TES and each of its magazines, as they are published.
Today's Front Pages
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Today's Front Pages is an online presentation of one of the Newseum's most popular exhibits. Every morning, more than 300 newspapers from around the world submit their front pages to the Newseum via the Internet.
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Vanguardia
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Welt
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