Factiva is the Library's key newspaper database, offering full text access to thousands of newspapers from around the world, in a variety of languages. It includes many key national newspapers of record, as well as more local or regional newspapers. Additional content comes from Web newspapers, news wires, and business information sources.

Box of Broadcasts (BoB) is an off-air recording and media archive service. It allows you to watch programmes from the complete archive of 9 key channels, create clips, and compile your favourite shows into playlists.

Gale Primary Sources includes access to the following titles: 17th-18th century Burney Collection newspapers; 19th Century UK Periodicals; Daily Mail Historical Archive, 1896-2004; The Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2012; The Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2010; The Sunday Times Digital Archive, 1822-2006; The Times Digital Archive; Independent Digital Archive,1986-2012; Telegraph Historical Archive 1855-2000; Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1791920; and Eighteenth Century Collections Online

This historical newspaper archive provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.