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.

All University of Essex members have unrestricted access to Times Higher Education (THE) content online. Our subscription includes access to:
• Daily global insight and intelligence
• Subscriber-only Rankings insight
• Regular newsletter updates
• Weekly digital editions of THE magazine
• Unrestricted access to THE online

Box of Broadcasts (BoB) is an off-air recording and media archive service. It allows you to record TV and radio programmes scheduled to be broadcast over the next seven days as well as retrieving programmes from the last seven days, and from the archive (back to around 2007 for 9 key channels).