Library & Cultural Services: Psychosocial & Psychoanalytic Studies: News. Magazines

News

The library offers a wide range of news & broadcast sources, as well as popular media sources like magazines. Coverage spans current and historical periods, and these resources present many opportunities for psychosocial investigation of individuals & groups, events, movements, and phenomena of interest to researchers. Consult the list below for the major resources available through the Library:

Nexis
Contains company information for 11,000 companies world-wide, daily financial and business news, the full text of the Financial Times. Also includes news from over 2000 global sources with a 40 year archive.
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Pressreader
PressReader contains a selection of newspapers and magazines from over 120 countries in over 60 languages.
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.
Select "sign in" via "Library or Group". Search for University of Essex. Sign in using "OpenID Connect" and select University of Essex.
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. BoB is produced by the British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC), Cambridge Imaging Systems and Bournemouth University.
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For students undertaking research of a more historical nature, or requiring exact digital reproductions of the original print newspapers, there are two major databases available: Gale Primary Sources and Proquest Historical Newspapers. Note that some newspaper titles on these databases offer content up until just a few years before present, so may also be used for contemporary research. The Gale and Proquest platforms also offer other primary source collections that may also be of interest to you. You can access them from the links below:

Gale Primary Sources
Artemis Primary Sources (previously called British Newspapers 1601950) 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, 1791920; and Eighteenth Century Collections Online
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Proquest historical newspapers
Digital reproductions of the original newspapers, which include: Black historical newspapers, LA Times, NY Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, The Observer, Le Monde, Hindustan Times, South China Morning Post
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You can see a more extensive list of our newspaper resources on the Library's e-resources webpage

There are also, of course, numerous free news sites, including the BBC and Guardian Society pages among others. Many are free to search, but may charge for accessing content.

A useful portal to newspaper and broadcasting websites around the world is provided by ABYZ News

If you are interested in learning more about news and media, come along to the next Library workshop on this area of research.

Magazines

Ebony magazine archive
Ebony has been a leading African-American magazine since publication commenced in 1945. It focuses on news & stories important to the Black community in the US. The fully searchable full-text archive spans 1945-2014, and covers African-American business, history & politics (including civil rights), education, entertainment, fashion and culture.
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GQ Magazine Archive
One of the longest-running and most influential men's magazines, GQ expanded its initial focus on fashion to cover other subjects. The digital archive from 1931- onwards provides textual & photographic insight into the history of fashion, popular culture, masculinity, and society. Provides an interesting contrast to Vogue Magazine Archive, which is also available through the Proquest platform
Internet Archive Magazine Rack
Huge collection of free digitised magazines. Many on computing & gaming, but also covering hobbies, popular culture, women's magazines, etc.

LGBT magazine archive
Archival runs of 26 of the most influential, longest-running serial publications covering LGBT interests. Includes the pre-eminent US and UK titles The Advocate and Gay Times, respectively. Chronicles more than six decades of the history and culture of the LGBT community. In addition to LGBT/gender/sexuality studies, this material also serves related disciplines such as sociology, political science, psychology, health, and the arts. Some publications may contain explicit content.
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Pressreader
PressReader contains a selection of newspapers and magazines from over 120 countries in over 60 languages.
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.
Select "sign in" via "Library or Group". Search for University of Essex. Sign in using "OpenID Connect" and select University of Essex.

US Women's & Girls' Magazines Archive
Snapshot of magazine websites from 2017 onwards

Vogue archive
A complete searchable archive of American Vogue, from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution color page images. Every page, advertisement, cover and fold-out has been included, with rich indexing enabling you to find images by garment type, designer and brand names. The Vogue Archive preserves the work of the world's greatest fashion designers, stylists and photographers and is a unique record of American and international fashion, culture and society from the dawn of the modern era to the present day.
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Women's magazine archive
An archival research resource comprising the backfiles of leading women's interest consumer magazines. Issues are scanned in high-resolution color and feature detailed article-level indexing. Coverage ranges from the late-19th century through to 2005 and these key primary sources permit the examination of the events, trends, and attitudes of this period. Among the research fields served by this material are gender studies, social history, economics/marketing, media, fashion, politics, and popular culture.
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