Subject guides: Human Rights: Newspapers and media services

News service databases

Proquest Newsstream International databases
Search a wide range of international and Australian newspapers in ANZ Newsstand, Canadian Newsstand, and Proquest Newsstand. ANZ Newsstand covers Australian and New Zealand newspapers published by Fairfax Australia and News Ltd, AAP newswires and ABC transcripts.
Key titles included: The Age (1/9/1996 - ), The Australian (2001- ), Canberra Times (21/5/2007 -), Courier Mail (Feb 2001 -), Sun Herald (1/9/1996 - ), Sunday Age (1/9/1996 - ), The Sydney Morning Herald (1/8/1996).
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Factiva
A current affairs and company information database. It includes major newspapers, news wire services and business journals world wide. Click Logout when finished
TVNews
TVNews indexes Australian television news, current affairs programs, and selected documentaries from the free-to-air networks and links to the video files.
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via Informit Online (September 2007 - present)
Provided access is restricted to University of Sydney staff and students, the material is used for educational purposes and the Copyright
Trove Digitised Newspapers
Searchable, full-text Australian newspapers digitised by the National Library of Australia, including The Sydney Morning Herald 1842-1954 and many more.
Mediascan
Indexes articles from Australia's major daily newspapers, and is specifically designed for students and researchers in Australian secondary schools, TAFE institutes and universities. Useful for locating material not available in Factiva, such as cartoons.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers (search all)
Chicago Tribune (April 23 1849 - Dec 31 1985)
The New York Times (Sept 18 1851 - Dec 31 2006)
The Wall Street Journal (July 8 1889 - Dec 31 1992)
The Times Digital Archive
via Gale Infotrac, (1785 - 1985) A full-image online archive of every page published by The London Times
Google News Archive
The Google News Archive consists of Newspapers digitised by Google, digitised/online newspapers from other organisations that are free of cost including Australian Newspapers beta, Papers Past (NZ), Sydney Morning Herald and news from web sources.
2. Digitised/online newspapers from other organisations that are free of cost including Australian Newspapers beta, Papers Past (NZ), Sydney Morning Herald.
3. News from web sources.
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Searching for news shows you the most recent articles relevant to your query. Sometimes you may be interested in searching news over historical periods of time to find stories that are most significant over those periods, rather than the most recent. You can do this by searching the news archives.

To search news archives:

Go to news.google.com.
Type in your query in the search box at the top of the page.
Select Enter.
From the search results page that appears, go to Search tools below the search box.
From the menu that appears, click the Recent drop-down list.
Click Archive.
Click Enter.
You will see search results ranked by significance

Web-based news services

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News websites

Alternative media sources I

World Press Review
Independent Press featuring non-mainstream news, including translations of international press from more than 20 languages around the world
Huffington Post
A liberal/progressive American news website and aggregated blog offering coverage of politics, media, business, the green movement, world news, and more.
Open Democracy
Offers news analysis, debates, blogs and opinion articles from established academics, journalists and policymakers on international politics and culture.
Social Justice Journal
A quarterly nonprofit educational journal that seeks to promote human dignity, equality, peace, and genuine security.
Multinational Monitor
Primary focus is on analysis of corporations, it also publishes articles on labor issues and occupational safety and health, the environment, globalization, privatization, the global economy, and developing nations
In These Times
A nonprofit and independent newsmagazine providing investigative reporting of corporate and government wrongdoing, international affairs, environmental issues, feminism, grassroots democracy, minority communities and the media.

Alternative media sources II

The New Internationalist
- A progressive magazine reporting on world issues, focusing on world poverty, inequality and global justice. (http://www.newint.org/ )
- Access available via Factiva and Expanded Academic
- Hardcopy issues can be found in Fisher Research at 052 67
The Utne Reader
- A digest of independent ideas and alternative culture it selectively indexes, edits and reprints stories, interviews, and cultural criticism from over 1,500 magazines, newsletters, journals, weeklies, zines, and other dispatches. (http://www.utne.com/)
- Access available via Proquest
The Progressive
- A monthly left wing magazine of investigative reporting, political commentary, cultural coverage, activism, interviews, poetry, and humor. (http://www.progressive.org)
- Access to archives available via databases Proquestor Expanded Academic
Mother Jones
- Nonprofit news organization that specializes in investigative, political, and social justice reporting. (http://motherjones.com/)
- Access available via Proquest or Expanded Academic
Social Alternatives
- An independent, quarterly refereed journal promoting public debate, commentary and dialogue about contemporary social, political, economic and environmental issues. (http://www.socialalternatives.com/index.php)
- Access available via APA-FT