Newspapers, Current Affairs, Media

The 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers collections contains one million newspaper pages with titles from London, British Isles, and colonies. Included in the collection are newspapers, newsbooks, Acts of Parliament, addresses, broadsides, pamphlets and proclamations.

The 19th Century British Library Newspapers collection contains 48 newspapers (two million newspaper pages) selected by the British Library from national and regional newspapers, as well as those from both established country or university towns, the Midlands region, Scotland, Ireland and Wales.

This site provides daily news including breaking news and Australian weather updates.

This is the official site for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. It contains a guide to ABC services, information about ABC radio and television programs and contact details for ABC departments.

Main website of the ABC Radio Sydney with program information and story index

An online news portal. Includes information about each country from Country Watch, World Factbook and World Switch.

This site provides the daily news, features, IT and classified sections of the newspaper. It also contains a ‘breaking news’ section available from mid-morning on weekdays. The Age 150th snapshot provides a selection of articles and photographs from the last 150 years.

This site provides a comprehensive search engine for Middle Eastern links, travel and business information and services, up-to-the-minute news reports and in-depth articles on a variety of Middle Eastern topics including business, politics, tourism, culture, health, entertainment and sports.

All That JAS: Journal Abbreviation Sources is a registry of Web resources that list or provide access to the full title of journal abbreviations.

A detailed list of electronic journals dealing with Asia and the Pacific. Part of the Asian studies WWW virtual library at the Australian National University.

The Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre contains Australia/New Zealand magazines, newspapers and newswires, reference books, biographies, photographs, maps and flags.

Titles include: Architecture Australia, Australian Geographic, Australian Women's Weekly, Inside Rugby, The Australian (National), The Daily Telegraph (Sydney), The Sunday Telegraph (Sydney), The Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney), Encyclopedia of Australia, History of Australia, etc.

Complete title coverage list available on EBSCOhost website.

Australia's national newspaper.

This site provides the main stories, news review and the Investor, Infotech and Markets section of the newspaper.

The Australian Indigenous Index or INFOKOORI is a State Library of NSW index to the Koori Mail: the fortnightly national indigenous newspaper, published in Lismore, NSW, since May 1991, that focuses on the Indigenous people of Australia.

INFOKOORI is also an index to biographical information from other periodicals held by the NSW State Library besides the Koori Mail including: Our aim : a monthly record of the Aborigines' Inland Mission of Australia. (1907–1961), Dawn : a magazine for the Aboriginal people of N.S.W. (1952–1969), New Dawn (1970–1975) and Identity: Aboriginal Publications Foundation (1971–1982).

You can access Dawn and New Dawn, for full-text online versions of these 2 periodicals. Published by the NSW Aborigines Welfare Board, they contain family history information such as births, deaths, and marriages, as well as hundreds of photographs. They also contain articles about conditions and activities on reserves, stations, homes and schools in NSW.

Historical information about Aboriginal people and communities is also being added from other newspapers published in NSW that are held by the NSW State Library, such as the Armidale Express, the Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent, the Australian Evangel , Today, the Daily Examiner (Grafton) and the North-western Watchman (Coonabarabran).

This site provides comprehensive schedules and news for both cable and free-to-air television.

A detailed index of the Australian Women's Weekly in the years 1946, 1951, 1956, 1961, 1966 and 1971.

This site provides a current listing of more than 1700 Australian electronic journals, magazines, webzines, email fanzines and more — including overseas works with Australian content, authorship and/or emphasis.

The National Library of Australia's comprehensive list of Australian newspapers available on the Internet.

This site provides links to current news stories and weather updates. It also includes links to BBC World Service and radio and TV listings.

The British Newspapers 1600-1900 collection includes the 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers and the 19th Century British Library Newspapers.

Subscription database which will provide full text articles from the current Business Review Weekly as well as access to back issues from October 1996. Free access to some BRW articles.

This site provides links to current news stories, weather and sports updates as well as information about CBS television programs.

This site provides a search engine which searches recent news stories including sports and entertainment.

This site provides access to recent news, has a search engine and gives other related Internet links on a subject.

This site provides access to the classified ads from the News Limited newspaper network in Australia including motoring, real estate, personals, trader and tender notices.

Commercial Radio Australia Ltd is the national industry body representing Australia's commercial radio broadcasters.

The CBAA is the peak body for community radio and television stations. Website lists all stations and includes articles on history of radio, digital radio, media law, news features and member information.

Dawn and New dawn magazines were published between 1952 and 1975 by the NSW Aborigines Welfare Board. They include family history information such as births, deaths, and marriages, as well as hundreds of photographs. They also contain articles about conditions and activities on reserves, stations, homes and schools in NSW. The full text of Dawn and New dawn are available at this site. Biographical information on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Dawn, New dawn and other magazines is also indexed by the INFOKOORI Database.

The St. Thomas University School of Law (Miami, Florida, USA) utilizes specially developed proprietary software to monitor the global output of communiquis, official statements, press briefings, position papers, interview transcripts and news releases from hundreds of diplomacy-related websites in near real-time and channel it into synthesized information streams within Diplomacy Monitor for scholars, diplomats, journalists, researchers, students and others interested in the interaction among nations.

This site provides a search engine which searches recent news stories including sports, technology and entertainment.

Factiva is a full-text news and financial information database of publications from Australian and international sources in 22 languages from 118 countries including newspapers, magazines, company and industry reports, newswires, pictures, and websites. Searches may be limited by keywords, subject, region, industry, company, language etc. but personal notices and advertising are not included.

Order archival quality prints of the Age, Sydney Morning Herald or Sun Herald newspaper front pages. Call 1300 136 466 to order pages before 1945.

This site contains news stories, key numbers from the world's financial markets and an archive of more than four million articles. Access is free but users must subscribe.

This site allows you to search thousands of newspapers and some magazines and find excerpts of articles dating back as far as the 18th century. Search results provide the name of the newspaper, date and cost of purchasing the article. Note that some newspapers are held at the State Library of New South Wales or may be available, full text, on our databases.

INFOQUICK provides a comprehensive index to articles about Australia and Australians, published in the Sydney Morning Herald and associated publications: Sun Herald, Eastern Herald, Northern Herald and Good Weekend from 1988 onwards.

This site provides free searching of a keyword searchable index to more than 20 000 general interest periodicals. The service offers access to full-text articles for a fee.

A world-wide list of newspapers that have archives of past editions available online. Arranged by country. Some newspapers may require registration to view back issues. Produced by the Special Libraries Association USA.

This digital library of eighteenth and nineteenth century journals is a joint project by the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford. Substantial runs of eighteenth and nineteenth century journals have been scanned and made available on the Internet. Journals include the Annual register, Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine, Gentleman's magazine, Notes and queries and Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society. The site also provides information on the scope of the journals.

Full text scanned newspapers from Ireland. Ibcludes newspapers such as the Independent and the Freeman's Journal. Provides feree index and thumbnail images but full text is by subscription.

Library PressDisplay is a web-based portal which provides access to 60-day back issues of over 1,400 newspapers and magazines from more than 82 countries in 39 languages.

This site provides the daily news stories and the sports, business and classified sections of the newspaper.

Online version of the local paper, serving the communities of Manly and Warringah in Sydney.

An index to selected articles from the Manly Daily from 1991 to the present, created by Manly Library staff. The library plans to extend the index coverage to all articles from 1959 onwards.

A National Library of Australia Digitisation Project to provide free, full- text, historic Australian newspapers online.

Newspapers currently being digitised include: the Argus; the Brisbane Courier; the Canberra Times; the Courier-Mail; the Hobart Town Gazette and Southern Reporter; Hobart Town Gazette and Van Diemen's Land Advertiser; the Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser; the Mercury; the Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal; the South Australian Advertiser; and the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser.

Compiled by the Shoalhaven City Library, this is a selective index to the South Coast Register for the period 8/01/1926 to 19/05/1949 and also 3/01/2002 to 6/07/2009 (as of July 2009).

The index provides access to a selection of articles about the Shoalhaven area. The emphasis is on Council affairs, building, environmental issues, local identities, organisations and social issues.

The South Coast Register is held on microfilm for the period 1926; 1929-1931; 1933-1955; and 1957 to the present, at RAV/FM4/695.

This site provides daily news stories plus the politics, business, technology, science, and sports sections of the newspaper.

This site provides current news stories from the News Limited newspaper network in Australia. Newspapers covered include The Australian, The Weekend Australian, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph (Sydney, NSW); Courier Mail and Sunday Mail (Brisbane, Qld); The Advertiser and Sunday Mail (Adelaide, SA); Mercury and Sunday Tasmanian (Hobart, Tas.); Herald Sun and Herald Sun Sunday (Melbourne, Vic.); and Sunday Times (Perth, WA).

This site provides links to more than 3500 newspapers.

This site provides a searchable database to more than 6400 newspapers and magazines.

This site provides a searchable database of various media resources.

A searchable listing of Australian and New Zealand newspapers, including a directory of local and regional newspapers. Includes headlines from major papers.

This site provides links to thousands of newspapers available on the Internet. This list is arranged by country.

This site provides links to more than 2000 newspapers as well as online news services.

An international newspaper digitisation project. Includes Australian newspapers, the Port Phillip Herald (1840-1902) and the Nation Review (1977-79). Also includes the American sports newspaper, Sporting News (1886-2003) and many provincial American and Canadian newspapers. Searching is done on individual newspapers, five years at a time. Access is free, but registration (free) is required.

Online access to digitised newspapers at the National Library of New Zealand. The collection covers the years 1839 to 1920 and includes publications from all regions of New Zealand.The range of periodicals and the number of pages available will increase as the project develops. Examples of some searchable titles: New Zealand Illustrated Magazine (1899-1905), New Zealand Tablet (1873-1909), New Zealander (1845-1852).

Local news from the Parramatta district of Sydney.

ProQuest Australia and New Zealand Newsstand is an online news service that includes the full text (not personal notices or advertising) of major Australian, New Zealand (14), Fijian (2) and Papua New Guinea (1) newspapers, transcripts from the ABC and BBC and Australian Associated Press (AAP) News Wires.

Full text Australian newspapers covered up to the current issue include : the Australian and the Weekend Australian (from 2001); the Sydney Morning Herald and the Sun Herald (from 1996); the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph (from 2001); Wollongong's Illawarra Mercury (from 1997); Newcastle's Herald (from 1997); Newcastle's Central Coast Herald (from 1997 to 2004); Gosford's Central Coast Express Advocate (from 2004); Melbourne's Age and Sunday Age (from 1996); Melbourne's Herald Sun (from 2001); Brisbane's Courier Mail and the Sunday Mail (from 2001); The Gold Coast Bulletin, the Townsville Bulletin and the Cairns Post (from 2004); Adelaide's Advertiser and the Sunday Mail (from 2001); The Canberra Times (from 2007); Perth's Sunday Times (from 2004); Hobart's Mercury and the Sunday Tasmanian (from 2001); Darwin's NT Business Review (from 2005) and its Sunday Territorian (from 2001); and Alice Spring's Northern Centralian Advocate (from 2004).

ProQuest Historical Newspapers offers full-text and full-image articles for newspapers dating back to the 18th century. This ongoing project already includes The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Atlanta Constitution, The Boston Globe, and The Hartford Courant.

A comprehensive radio station search engine with links to over 10,000 radio station web pages and over 2500 audio streams from radio stations in the U.S. and around the world.

This news service accompanies Business Source Premier. It provides full text coverage of more than 60 regional business publications from the United States and is updated daily.

Scanned copies of small American town newspapers. Includes archived papers back to the nineteenth century.

This site provides daily news, features and the computers and metro sections of the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper. It also includes access to archived material and a ‘breaking news’ section available from mid-morning on weekdays. Free registration required to view some pages.

The SMH archives contains 820,000 pages in almost 13,000 issues from January 1st, 1955 to December 31st, 1990. The contents of all issues are fully text searchable including advertisements, captions and birth, death and marriage notices.

Full-text results are returned in an exact digital reproduction of the printed pages as they were originally published.

This site provides a searchable archive of the following Fairfax publications: Sydney Morning Herald, Australian Financial Review, Business Review Weekly, Personal Investment, Shares, The Age, Sun Herald, Illawarra Mercury and the Newcastle Herald. Fees are charged to view the full text of the articles.

Sydney Star Observer is a Sydney gay newspaper providing gay-relevant news, current affairs, venue information, arts, film, book reviews. The site contains a searchable archive of the past year's issues.

This site provides comprehensive contact details for personnel, facilities and services in the Australian film, television, advertising and multimedia industries. A search facility is provided or you can browse by category. Subscription only.

The National Library of Scotland's online collection of nearly 1800 broadsides — printed notices for public distribution — between 1650 and 1910. Crime, politics, romance, emigration, humour, tragedy, royalty and superstitions are covered by these precursors to the modern newspaper.

The London Times newspaper has been captured, with all articles, advertisements & illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching.

Particularly useful to genealogists for searching shipping notices.

This site provides excerpts from the Times Literary Supplement.

This site provides daily news, features, opinion, arts, business, obituaries and sports sections.

Hosted by the National Library of Australia, this website contains articles from historic Australian newspapers, 1803 to 1954.

The Argus, the major Australian metropolitan daily of its time, was published in Melbourne from 1846 to 1957. It is the primary resource for data on 19th century Australia, widely recognised as the general Australian newspaper of record for the era. The 1870-1879 index is part of La Trobe University's Argus Index Project and the first available in this form.

This site provides a search engine which searches recent news stories including business, culture, technology and politics.

This site provides links to recent news stories and a searchable index of past news stories.

Video footage of events, incidents and home movies from around the world. Includes documentary, educational, historic and archival footage, as well as music and film. Note: Some adult content.

A network of community based websites driven by local Australian newspapers, giving the latest local, national and world news and sport, weather and community club details and profiles from towns all over Australia. YourGuide also provides information about jobs, property and motor vehicles for sale, entertainment and dining, classified ads, and a database of local trades and services around the country.