News & Media

On-line Full-text News Services

These services are available for the use of University of Sydney Staff and Students only

LexisNexis News
LexisNexis is a full text legal and news service. The News service contains almost 10,000 Australian and international newspapers and business sources. It includes major Australian newspapers plus local newspapers, and also ABIX (Australasian Business Intelligence). Most newspapers have an archive of 5+ years. In addition to Basic search, click on Launch nexis.com Expert Search to get to "Quick search" (to search using subject headings), and "Power search" (to select from the complete range of resources
http://www.lexisnexis.com.au/cui/uni-syd/

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

Britannica Internet Guide.
Directory of Internet resources compiled by the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Useful for locating web pages for current world issues. Search or browse within categories.

Current World Affairs
Links to information on current conflicts and other world affairs from the International Relations and Security Network.
url: http://www.isn.ethz.ch/current/

Time Daily
Latest headlines from Time Magazine.
url: http://www.time.com/time/

Australian News

Australian Newspapers on the Internet.
Comprehensive collection of links to Australian metropolitan and regional newspapers.
url: http://www.nla.gov.au/oz/npapers.html

Australian News Resources
Comprehensive Directory for Australian news and media resources
url: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~pwessels/

Australian News
Links to sites for major Australian Press and media from Cornell University (US)
url: http://www.orie.cornell.edu/~nedwards/australiana/news.html

State Library Of New South Wales Newspaper Indices
The State Library of New South Wales maintains indicies to the Sydney Morning Herald & Koori Mail.
url: http://www.slnsw.gov.au/eres/nps.htm

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 Ballot '98, Sydney Water, The Olympics , The Tax Debate, The Drug Summit and the Balkans. Reconciliation Report etc .
url: http://www.smh.com.au/news/content/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

Newspapers & Services

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/newspaper/overview.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

Financial Times (UK) Global Archive
Global archive allows searching over 6million articles from 3,000 publications many articles are freely available.
url: http://www.globalarchive.ft.com/

The Largest Newspaper Index on the Web.
This website has links to over 3,000 newspapers from more than 80 countries. Newspapers include National, State or Provincial and newspapers from organisations.
url: http://www.concentric.net/~stevewt/

Opinion-pages
Compiled by Monty Kersall the Opion Pages provides access to the "...current editorials, opinions, commentaries and columnists from English newspapers and magazines on the World Wide Web."
url: http://www.opinion-pages.org/

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://www-map.lib.umn.edu/news.html

The Paperboy
Comprehensive online newspaper service
url: http://www.paperboy.com/

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.oneworld.org/index_oc/

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

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

Newsbot
url: http://www.wired.com/newbot/

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

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/