If you want to research news sources, using a database on this page will be the best place to start.
Nexis is the best newspaper database for searching global, national and local news. It has coverage from the 1990s onwards, and allows you to do systematic searching, and to save/export your results.
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Choose Current news if you want to research from 1990s onwards. For anything older you will need to use one of the Archives.
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Nexis is a major full text database for global news and business information. It gives access to over 35,000 sources, with more than 12,000 international news sources including UK daily and regional newspapers, current affairs magazines, and professional journals.
Alternative link - please note that, the first time you use this link, you will be asked to enter your first name and last name in order to access Nexis.
Nexis also includes 80 sources of company information, plus thousands of biographies of government officials, politicians, celebrities, investors and business contacts.
The Financial Times Historical Archive (1888-2016) is a facsimile run of the world's most authoritative daily business newspaper. It includes over 790,000 pages, including Special Supplements and the FT Magazine. Browse individual issues and search every word of the text. Online Help is provided
The Financial Times Historical Archive is a complete searchable facsimile run of the authoritative daily business newspaper from its inception in 1888 to 2016. There are approx. 790,000 pages comprising the most detailed foreign affairs coverage of any European daily newspaper; the authoritative Lex column on corporate and financial matters; access to thousands of daily prices/stock indexes and currency tables, and to the FT Magazine. Helpful Essays about the newspaper are provided, plus comprehensive online Help and the ability to print, save, bookmark and e-mail search results. The FT archive is also cross-searchable with other newspapers via Gale NewsVault, including The Times and The Economist historical archives
Several television news channels are available through Sheffield Hallam University computers via shuplayer, through which you can watch BBC News 24, CNN, Sky News and Al-Jazeera.
Contains a permanent archive of content from nine channels: BBC1 London / BBC2 / BBC4 / ITV London / Channel 4 / More4 / Channel 5 / BBC Radio 4 / BBC Radio 4 Extra. Allows you to preview and save clips.
To access BoB you need to go to login, select your institution in the where are you from box (login using SHU username and password) and then follow the instructions to create an account.
Each user can request up to 20 new recordings (restricted to 5 in a 6hr period) or clips per day. There is no restriction on the number of existing programmes that can be viewed.
BoB is Learning on Screen’s on demand TV and radio service for education.This academically-focused system allows staff and students to record programmes from over 75 free-to-air channels; and search our archive of over 2.2 million broadcasts.
Hansard provides the archive of the official report of the House of Commons and the House of Lords for the UK parliament.
It contains Debates and Oral and Written Answers to Questions. Coverage starts from the beginning of the 19th century to the present day.