Newspapers and magazines

For licensing reasons, some of our resources are only accessible from computers in particular libraries.

See also the local and foreign newspapers pages.

Subscriptions

NEW! British Newspaper Archive - Community Edition

(all libraries, no remote access)

A partnership between the British Library and Brightsolid online publishing to digitise up to 40 million newspaper pages from the British Library's vast collection over the next 10 years.

So far it includes the following archives for Kent newspapers:

Dover Express - 7 August 1858 to 30 December 1949
Kentish Gazette - 28 May 1768 to 25 December 1883
Whitstable Times & Herne Bay Herald - 5 January 1867 to 31 December 1904
Kentish Chronicle - 9 July 1859 to 28 December 1867

See the up-to-date titles list.

Please note: Free access is restricted to library computers and you will need to register for an individual account. We have a limited number of concurrent licences across the county; to enable a maximum of people to benefit, the product will log you out following 10 minutes of inactivity.

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EBSCO UK/EIRE Reference Centre

A selection of UK and International magazines, newspapers (including UK local and tabloid papers) and reference books supported by a large image bank.

Please note - Following contract renegotiation between the publishers and EBSCO, The Economist is no longer available full text; coverage is now limited to 'abstracting and indexing' for this magazine.

Gale News Vault

Use the link to the News Vault to search the following resources individually or all in one go.

19th Century British Library newspapers

A comprehensive range of national, regional and local newspapers published in 19th century Britain, which reflects the social, political and cultural events of the times. Users can search across a large range of titles, perform full-text searches and view specific article types.

Illustrated London News

The world's first fully illustrated weekly newspaper, it allowed readers to not only read about British and world events but to actually see them. From war and disasters to politics and the arts, it provided a vivid view of the people, places and events that, until then, most of its readers could only imagine.

Times Digital Archives

Search through the digital edition of The Times (London) 1785 - 2007 using keyword or date searches to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. The entire newspaper is captured, with all notices, obituaries, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching.

View the guided tour (this may take a few minutes to load).

NEW! Infotrac Custom Journals

A selection of full text magazines including The Economist, Nature, Money management and Spectator.

Infotrac Custom Newspapers

Provides access to the full text of articles from the Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Independent, Times, Daily Mail, Evening Standard, Mirror, People and Sun newspapers (including the Sunday versions where appropriate).

View the guided tour (this may take a few minutes to load).

UK Press Online

Access digitised copies of the South Eastern Gazette 1852 - 1912.

As well as the following:

Daily Mirror 1903 - 1980
Daily Mirror Academic 1903 - current
Daily Express 1900 - current
Sunday Express 2000 - current
Church Times 1863 - 1889; 1939 - 1945; 2000 - current
The Watchman 1835 - 1884
Daily Worker 1930 - 1945
Morning Star 2000 - current
World War Two 1933 - 1945 (comprised of wartime editions of the Daily Mirror, Daily Express, Fascist Week, Action!, Blackshirt, Yorkshire Post and Daily Worker)

Free websites

DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals

"This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages". There are currently 6000 journals in the directory, and over 2500 journals are searchable at article level.

Easy News

The first newspaper designed to be accessible for people with learning disabilities. It will be published every two months and is available in print and online. An audio version will also be available on CD and online.

Travellers Times