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Factiva provides the full text of thousands of newspapers from around the world. Dates of coverage vary. 

LexisNexis Academic includes over 10,000 news, business, and legal sources. News coverage includes national and regional newspapers from around the globe, wire services, broadcast transcripts and non-English language sources.

ProQuest News & Newspapers single search interface to all newspaper collections within ProQuest: ProQuest Australia & New Zealand Newsstand; Canadian Newsstand Complete; ProQuest Newsstand; ProQuest Historical Newspapers.

Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports (1941-1996) consist of translated broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals and government statements from nations around the world. These media sources were monitored in their languages of origin, translated into English and issued by the U.S. Government.

Newspaper Source Plus includes more than 860 full-text newspapers as well as more than 878,000 television and radio news transcripts.

Historic Australian Newspapers, 1803-1954 provides the full text of almost every major Australian newspaper (as well as many lesser-known titles) and is constantly expanding.

Times Digital Archive 1785-2006

Google News Archive includes newspaper articles dating in some cases from the early 1800s.

The Baillieu Library receives The Age, The Australian, Australian Financial Review, Sydney Morning Herald and Times (London) daily. These newspapers are held on the newspaper shelves until the microforms arrive.

Generally, the microform copies of Australian newspapers are three months behind; there is a one week delay from the date of publication of the Times.

The Giblin Eunson Business, Economics and Education Library receives the Australian Financial Review daily.

To find news on a particular subject, first try one of the online databases. Some of the main ones are listed at left under 'Key databases'; others are listed on the tabs above.

If a newspaper has not been digitised, you might need to use a printed index to identify articles, then look at the newpaper itself either in print or on microform. Major indexes are also listed on the relevant tabs above.

State Library of Victoria
The State Library of Victoria has one of the largest collections of newspapers in Australia. It has an extensive collection of Victorian metropolitan, suburban and regional newspapers.

National Library of Australia
Register as a user to access National Library of Australia e-resources. These include:

• Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2003
• China Core Newspaper Database
• Eighteenth Century Journals I & II: Newspapers and Periodicals 1685-1815
• Financial Times Historical Archive, 1886-2006
• Irish Newspaper Archives (selected titles, 1763-2007)
• Ren min ri bao tu wen shu ju ku (People's Daily Database 1946-).