Newspapers & News Media
On-line Full-text News Services
- These services are available for the use of University of Sydney Staff and Students only
Factiva
is a current affairs and company information database, including almost 9,000 publications.
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World News Connection
World News Connection (WNC) information is compiled from thousands of non-U.S. media sources obtained from full text and summaries of newspaper articles, conference proceedings, television and radio broadcasts, periodicals, and non-classified technical reports.
World News Connection
Capital Monitor
Provides current and historical legal and political and regulatory information. Updated throughout the day, Capital Monitor contains Federal Bills Monitor, Acts Assented 1998-, Proclamations 1997-, Tax Rulings 2000-, High Court rulings 1998-, Budget, 1998 and 2001 Elections, and their Canberra Newsletter. There is also a NSW Bills Monitor, Acts Assented 1999- , and NSW Newsletter. Newsletters contain Press Statements, Policy Changes, New Regulations, Orders, Bills etc. It also tracks information by selected Topics. The What's new section includes section on Broadcasting and Media.
http://universities.intranet.capmon.com/
On-line Newspaper Indexes (Australian newspapers)
Mediascan
Media Scan provides selective topical subject indexing in the following Australian newspapers: Sydney Morning Herald (1995-), The Age (1991-), The Australian (1991-), The Herald Sun (1991-), The Bulletin (1991-), The Courier Mail (1995-), Sunday Mail (1994-), Adelaide Advertiser (1997), West Australian (1996-1997).
Indexed are: All page 1 articles (except Sport), All features, editorials, opinions and commentaries, and items on contentious issues, research, new technology, IT, education, Letters to the Editor, cartoons, main international stories, and reports, statistics, opinion polls and research papers.
http://webspirs.informit.com.au/uos?sp.dbid.p=S(0J)&sp.form.first.p=srchmain.htm
State Library Of New South Wales Newspaper Indices
The State Library of New South Wales maintains indices to the Sydney Morning Herald &
Koori Mail.
url: http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/
Fee based News Services
Newstext
Newstext contains nearly 30 million articles from over 150 News Corporation newspapers worldwide, and is updated daily. Most of the newspapers are published in Australia. The archive dates back for some newspapers to 1984. Newstext is a user-pays site, and you must subscribe to download articles. It is possible to register for the service ans search for articles without incurring costs, however the full text of articles are only available for a fee. See website for full details.
http://www.newstext.com.au
Current news issues
Hot issues from the Parliament of Australia, Parliamentary Library.
Includes link to Mandatory sentencing, Timor, The stolen generation...
url: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/intguide/#Hot Issues
Current World Affairs
Links to information on current conflicts and other world affairs from the International Relations and Security Network. This site also includes links to web sites providing early warning information on a potential conflicts or natural disasters.
url: http://www.isn.ethz.ch/
Global Gateway alternative current news link
Inter press service news agency website providing news coverage of many global issues.
http://www.ips.org/
Time Daily
Latest headlines from Time Magazine.
url: http://www.time.com/time/
Australian News
Full text artcles available from LexisNexis and Capital Monitor
Australian Newspapers Online
Comprehensive collection of links to Australian metropolitan and regional newspapers.
url: http://www.nla.gov.au/npapers/
Australian News Resources
Comprehensive directory for Australian news and media resources from the Commonwaelth Journalists Association Australian Branch.
url: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~pwessels/cja/
The ABC
url: http://www.abc.net.au
Sydney Morning Herald
url: http://www.smh.com.au/
The Australian
url: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/
The Australian Financial Review
url: http://www.afr.com.au/
The Age (Melbourne)
url: http://www.theage.com.au/
Sydney Morning Herald Coverage of Key News Events:1998-2000
Includes links to fulltext of Sydney Morning Herald articles for significant news events
url: http://www.smh.com.au/specials/
Specialist Press
Directory for Australian Specialist Press Services, multicultural, youth, gay, political, religious etc
url: http://www.business.vu.edu.au/bho2250/News/SpecNews.htm
Newspaper Directories & Collections
The Spire Collection: News & News Databases
Excellent collection of news resources with additional information on searching and filtering news stories
url: http://www.spireproject.com/newswire.htm
OnlineNewspapers.com
Comprehensive listing of newspapers from web wombat.
url: http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/
Parliamentary Library (Parliament of Australia) Resource Guides Media Internet Resources.
Extremely comprehensive collection of links to media within Australia and overseas.
url: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/intguide/media/index.htm
British Library Newspaper Library
url: http://www.bl.uk/collections/newspapers.html
JournalistExpress
Comprehensive news source includes newspapers, wires, magazines and research & reference sources.
url: http://www.journalistexpress.com/
Newspaper Archives on the Web
Archive of mainly United States Newspapers but some overseas papers included. Some newspapers
charge a fee for their archive services.
url: http://sunsite.unc.edu/slanews/internet/archives.html
Non-US Archives on the Web
Compiled and maintained by the News Division volunteers of the Special Libraries Association.
http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/internet/ForArchives.html
Financial Times (UK) Global Archive
Global archive allows searching over 6million articles from 3,000 publications many articles are freely available.
url: http://search.ft.com/search/index.html
American Journalism Review Newslink
http://newslink.org/news.html
Newspapers of the World
url: http://www.newspapers.com
Maps in the News
Links to maps of places currently in the news compiled by the John R. Borchert Map Library, University of Minnesota.
url: http://map.lib.umn.edu/news.phtml
The Paperboy
Comprehensive online newspaper service
url: http://www.thepaperboy.com.au/welcome.html
Alternative News Services
Specialist Press
Directory for Australian Specialist Press Services, multicultural, youth, gay, political, religious etc
url: http://www.business.vu.edu.au/bho2250/News/SpecNews.htm
Znet Media Watch
Alternative Media Watch.
url: http://www.zmag.org/altmediawatch.htm
Altnet.org
Alternative Media Directory
url: http://www.alternet.org/
NewPages Online
Alternatives in Print and Media includes Independent Publishers, Alternative Periodicals,
Literary Periodicals, Reviews, Alternative Newsweeklies, Independent Bookstores, The Web &Independent Record Labels.
url: http://www.newpages.com/
Index on Censorship
"Index on Censorship, the bi-monthly magazine for free speech, widens the debates on freedom of expression with some of the world's best writers. Through interviews, reportage, banned literature and polemic, Index shows how free speech affects the issues of the moment."
url: http://www.indexonline.org/
IPS Alternative Newslink
"IPS, the world«s leading provider of information on global issues, is backed by a network of journalists in more than 100 countries, with satellite communication links to 1,200 outlets."
url: http://www.ips.org/index.htm
News Search Services
Opinion-pages
Compiled by Monty Kersall the Opion Pages provides access to the "...current editorials, opinions, commentaries and columnists from English language newspapers and magazines on the World Wide Web."
url: http://www.opinion-pages.org/
Totalnews
http://www.totalnews.com/
IstHeadlines
http://www.1stheadlines.com/
Metagrid
Newspaper and magazine database on the web searchable by key word or browse within subject or geographic categories
http://www.metagrid.com/
News Index
Searches online newspapers and news services, retrieves current
articles from the Sydney Morning Herald, Australian, The Age and the ABC website.
url: http://www.newsindex.com
Newshub
url: http://www.newshub.com/
NewsTrawler
Search by country, across categories or within a type of news service.
url: http://www.newstrawler.com/nt/nt_home.html
News & Media Statistics
ABS Statistics Broadcasting, Electronic Media and Film
Some publications are only available for downloading by University of Sydney Staff and Students
url: ABS Statistics for Broadcasting, Electronic Media and Film
Get the Picture
Summary data from the Australian Film Commission's reference publication on the Australian film, video, television and interactive digital media industries. Full publication is available in Fisher Reference 384.80994 10
url: http://www.afc.gov.au/GTP/index.html
Roy Morgan Research
Data from surveys on readership measures and results, television viewing habits and popularity not all data is freely available
http://www.roymorgan.com.au/
Media Statistics
Part of the Asia Pacific Media Directory compiled by the incudes statistical data for a wide range of media publications and formats. Data includes Radi surveys, Media spending, circulation and readership, market shares and television ratings. The data is primarily for the Asia Pacific region although some world data is included.
url: http://www.business.vu.edu.au/bho2250/Stats/mediastats_index.htm
British Newspaper Readership data on the Web
Compiled and maintained by JICREG (Joint Industry Committee for Regional Press Research).
url: http://www.jicreg.co.uk/
Audit Bureau of Circulation (UK)
"This site provides free access to the circulation, distribution and attendance data for ABC certified Magazines, Newspapers, Exhibitions and Directories within the UK and Republic of Ireland. "
url: http://www.abc.org.uk/
Newspaper Society: Facts and Figures (UK)
Facts and Figures on aspects of the newspaper industry in the UK including advertising expenditure, circulation and distribution, ownership, regional mergers and acquisitions and top publishers.
url: http://www.newspapersoc.org.uk/default.asp?cid=249
Statistical Summary of the Newspaper Industry published by the Newspaper Association of America
Includes summaries of over forty aspects of the industry including circulation, readership profiles and demographic profiles.
url: http://www.naa.org/info/facts00/
Transcripts of Radio & Television Programs
World Radio Network
http://www.wrn.org/
Media Internet Resources: Australasia
Parliament of Australia. Department of the Parliamentary Library guide to Parliamentary media resources. This guide has an excellent collection of links to transcripts of television and radio programmes.
http://www.aph.gov.au/library/intguide/media/mediaaus.htm
Science in the News
Current Issues in Science, Parliament of Australia, Parliamentary Library.
Papers prepared for parliamentarians by the Parliamentary Library on a wide range of topical issues in science and medicine.
url: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/intguide/sci/scicuriss.htm
NOVA: Science in the News.
Scientific news service from the Australian Academy of Science.
url: http://www.science.org.au/nova/
SciTech Daily Review
Gateway to news sources for science and technology, covers over twenty five science news services.
url: http://www.scitechdaily.com/
The Why Files
The Science behind the News, project funded by the National Science Foundation (USA)
url: http://whyfiles.news.wisc.edu/
EurekAlert
News and Current Alert Service for Science & Medicine. Current information on meetings, conferences,
grants, awards and publications and links to a wide range of reference resources.
Produced by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
url: http://www.eurekalert.org/
The Alchemist
Current news stories, conferences and seminar announcements, searchable archives and links to
research news. Requires registration for free membership.
url: http://chemweb.com/alchem/alchem97/homepage/hp_current_set.html
Science Daily
Links to the latest scientific research new from Science daily magazine. Most items include a link to the original news source.
url: http://www.sciencedaily.com/