Finding Newspapers Online
The Library provides online access to an extensive range of regional, national and
international newspaper titles including both digital newspaper archives and full-text
newspaper article databases.
Irish Times Digital Archive (via ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
http://librarysearch.ucd.ie/V?func=find-db-1title&mode=titles&search_type=exact&restricted=all&scan_start=%20Irish%20Times%20Digital%
20Archive%20(ProQuest%20Historical%20Newspapers)%20
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A fully searchable digital archive containing an exact image of every page
published since the newspaper's foundation in 1859 to 2009.
Access for content from 2010 onwards is available from this site.
Irish Newspaper Archive
http://librarysearch.ucd.ie/V?func=find-db-1title&mode=titles&search_type=exact&restricted=all&scan_start=%20Irish%20Newspapers%20Ar
chives
Comprises the digitized images of over six million national and regional newspaper pages
including:
 Irish Independent (1908 to 2001)
 Sunday Independent (1935 to 2002)
 Freeman's Journal (1763-1924)
 Irish Press (1931 - 1960)
 The Nation (1842 - 1865)
Note: The INA is a major work in progress. Consequently, coverage is not always
complete and gaps do occur.
Nexis UK
http://librarysearch.ucd.ie/V?func=find-db-1title&mode=titles&search_type=exact&restricted=all&scan_start=%20Nexis%20UK%20
Full text newspaper article database offering substantial Irish newspaper content via the
"Irish Publications" file including:
 Irish Times (1992-)
 Irish Independent
 Belfast Newsletter (1997-)
19th Century British Library Newspapers
http://librarysearch.ucd.ie/V?func=find-db-1title&mode=titles&search_type=exact&restricted=all&scan_start=%2019th%20Century%20British
%20Library%20Newspapers%20Part%201%20(Gale)%29
Historical newspaper service offering digitised versions of key 19th century British
newspapers including 48 London and regional titles selected from the British Library
newspaper collections.
 London papers include The Morning Post and The Standard.
 Regional papers include the Newcastle Courant, Ipswich Journal and Bristol
Mercury. Also includes two Irish titles - The Belfast Telgraph (1828 - 1900) and
The Freeman's Journal (1807 - 1900).
Infotrac – General Business File
http://librarysearch.ucd.ie/V?func=find-db-1title&mode=titles&search_type=exact&restricted=all&scan_start=%20General%20BusinessFile%
20ASAP%20%28Gale%29
A business studies database with some newspaper content including:
 Financial Times
 International Herald Tribune
 Los Angeles Times
 NewsLetter (Belfast).
Many international, national and regional newspapers have online equivalents, many of
which offer free content. The following will assist in sourcing freely-available titles.
Onlinenewspapers.com
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Listing of 10000 newspapers from around the world, searchable by country and
then by publication.
Includes a separate section for Irish newspapers.
ICON: International Coalition on Newspapers
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Useful site which highlights past, present and prospective digitization projects of
historic newspapers from around the globe.
Focus is on digital conversion efforts rather than full-text contemporary
newspapers. Many of these digitized newspaper services are works-in-progress.
Most are subscription-based.
Newsplan
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A database and holdings catalogue of all Irish newspapers published since the
17th century.
Particularly useful for tracing microfilm collections of local historical newspaper
titles.