Library & Cultural Services: Linguistics: News & Media

News & Media: Introduction

The library subscribes to a number of resources which you can use to access newspapers and television programmes. Newspapers can be very useful for identifying key trends, analysing language use and tracing original research. Some of the main sources which the library subscribes to are listed below, and you can see a complete list here.

Contemporary News Sources

Box of Broadcasts (BoB)
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 from a selected list of recorded channels. In addition, you can watch programmes from the archive (back to around 2007 for 9 key channels), create clips, and compile your favourite shows into playlists.
NEXIS
Provides news from over 2000 global sources - including UK national and regional newspapers, international newspapers and foreign language news sources in Dutch, French, German, Arabic, Spanish and Portuguese - from the 1980s onwards. Updated daily.

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Pressreader
PressReader is a "virtual news stand", containing a selection of newspapers and magazines from over 120 countries in over 60 languages. You can personalise it to show your favourite publications.
OFF-CAMPUS ACCESS: Select "sign in" via "Library or Group". Search for University of Essex. Sign in using "OpenID Connect" and select University of Essex.

Historical News Sources: Collections

Gale Primary Sources
Artemis Primary Sources (previously called British Newspapers 1600-1950) from Gale Group includes access to the following databases: 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, 1790-1920; and Eighteenth Century Collections Online

Shibboleth users

news on screen
This BUFVC database lists over 180,000 news stories produced by ninety British cinema newsreels and cinemagazines, with details of production, content and release taken from the original issue sheets and other data sources. A programme of digitisation has added some 80,000 newsreel documents to the database in PDF format. There is extensive background information, including a biographical database of newsreel staff, a database of abstracts of relevant literature, newsreel histories and articles.

Proquest historical newspapers
Historical newspaper archive which includes The Guardian, The Observer and The New York Times.

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UKPress Online
UKPress Online is a full-text newspaper database and has every page available in thumbnail, small preview, full-size view and ready-to-print PDF with live text, and page-by-page browse of editions. It allows searching by name, word or by date for free & the Library subscribes to the full text of: The Daily & Sunday Express, Daily Mirror, The Daily & Sunday Star

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Historical News Sources: Individual Newspapers

Rand daily mail
The Rand Daily Mail, a Johannesburg daily, is a critically important title that pioneered popular journalism in South Africa. It is renowned today for being the first newspaper to openly oppose apartheid and contribute to its downfall. Search news articles from 1902-1985.

UK Federation