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Current news

Newsbank Full Text
Newsbank has the full-text of more than 100 newspapers from Australia and overseas.

Google News

News & newspaper websites

Australian

ABC News Online National
Advertiser Adelaide
The Age Melbourne
Armidale Express Armidale
The Australian National
Bharat Times Melbourne (Indian)
Canberra Times Canberra
Courier Mail Brisbane
Daily Telegraph Sydney
Fairfax Newspapers Interactive Network
Fairfax Market Classifieds
Herald Sun Melbourne
Mercury Hobart
News Interactive National
Northern Daily Leader Tamworth
Northern Rivers Echo Lismore
Radio Australia (ABC) National
Radio National (ABC) National
West Australian Perth

International

BBC London
China Daily Beijing
CNN International
Dawn Karachi
Economist London
Guardian London
Independent London
International Herald Tribune New York
Kompas Jakarta
Le Monde France
New Scientist London
New York Times New York (Free registration required)
PNG Post Courier Port Moresby
People's Daily Beijing
La Repubblica Rome
South China Morning Post Hong Kong (Free registration required)
La Stampa Milan
Straits Times Singapore
Times London
Times Literary Supplement London
Time New York
Utusan Malaysia Kuala Lumpur
Washington Post Washington
Die Welt Berlin

National dailies held in the Library

The University Library subscribes to a number of newspapers in print. The latest issues are displayed on the First Floor of the University Library in the New Serials Display Area. The most recent three months of The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, The Australian Financial Review and The Times (London) are also kept here.

Australian capital city dailies

  • The Australian Financial Review
  • The Australian
  • The Age (Melbourne)
  • The Courier Mail (Brisbane)
  • The Sydney Morning Herald

Regional newspapers, most relevant being the

  • Armidale Express

International newspapers

  • Le Monde (France)
  • People's Daily (China)
  • Strait's Times (Singapore)
  • The Times (London)

The UNE Library Catalogue will tell you how far back we keep our files of individual newspapers.

Past news

Newsbank Full Text
Newsbank has the full-text of more than 100 newspapers from Australia and overseas.

Australian Newspapers Beta

The National Library of Australia, is creating a free online service that will enable full-text searching of newspaper articles.

This will include newspapers published in each state and territory from the 1800s to the mid-1950s, when copyright applies.

Sydney newspapers

Infoquick is an index to Sydney newspapers maintained by the State Library of New South Wales. http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/infoquick/.

The index covers from 1988 until the current day and has several methods of searching.

Prior to 1988, there is a printed index to The Sydney Morning Herald, held in the Reference Collection at R079.94/S982. It covers the paper from 1842-1987, with a few gaps.

International newspapers

Also in the Dixson Library Reference Collection are the following:

  • London Times Index from 1785 - present (R072/TIM)
  • New York Times Index from 1851 - Dec 2001 (R071.471/N532)

Archival & historical newspapers

Older copies of newspapers may be available in microform (microfilm or microfiche) when the paper copy has been discarded. The UNE Library Catalogue will tell you which newspapers we hold and where to find either the paper or microform copy.

Dixson Library has reader printers for viewing newspapers in microform. Reader printers can be booked for an hour at a time from the Service Desk. The Service Desk also provides assistance in using the readers printers.

Some titles newspapers held in microform:

  • The Age from 1854 - (MF079.94/A265)
  • The Australian from 1964 - (MF079.94/A938)
  • The Sydney Morning Herald from 1842 - (MF079.94/S982)
  • Australian Financial Review from 1951 (MF330.5/AUS)
  • Canberra Times from 1969 - (MF079.94/C214)

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