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Selected full text newspaper databases and indexes to newspapers

Full text newspaper databases

  • Newsbank  newspapers is a complete full-text content of more than 100 Australian local, regional, and national newspapers-coverage of overseas newspapers is very limited.
  • Factiva full text of hundreds of newspapers worldwide including major Australian newspapers- the best database for overseas newspapers-click on 'australasian sources' below the search box to remove the limit and search all newspapers or click on  +source and select to search by 'region' from the drop down box-click on a region (places the region below the search box) to search newspapers within that region.
  • eLibrary is a full text database of journals, newspapers including the Australian and Herald Sun. It includes books, magazines, pictures, maps and radio and TV transcripts. Defaults to search all Newspapers.  Note the opportunity to limit to Australasian sources only.

Indexes to newspapers

Searching full text newspaper databases can be frustrating if too many irrelevant articles are retrieved. It may be better to use one of the available subject indexes to newspapers to find citations first, then use the full text databases to find the article.

  • Media scan indexes these newspapers:
    Sydney Morning Herald (1996- ), - The Age (1991- ), - The Australian (1991- ) - The Herald Sun (1991- ), - The Bulletin (1991- ), - The Courier Mail (1995- ) ;- Sunday Mail (1994- )

more indexes to newspapers

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