History - Subject Guide

Provides fulltext access to significant news items from over 6000 international sources, including more than 100 Australasian sources. Off campus access is available for current Murdoch staff and students only.

Also provides access to historic newspapers from the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program (beta) and Papers Past (New Zealand).

Contains more than one million pages of digitised New Zealand newspapers and periodicals. The collection covers the years 1839 to 1920 and includes publications from all regions of New Zealand.

Abstracting, full-text and image database which includes ABI/INFORM Global and Academic Research Newspapers. Off campus access is available for current Murdoch staff and students only.

TVNews provides access to Australian television news, current affairs and selected documentary broadcasts from the free-to-air networks.

Offers in-depth information and widely researched, long-term news stories covering the period 1822-2006. All supplements are included. It may be cross-searched with the Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive and The Times Digital Archive.

A free online service that will enable full-text searching of Australian newspaper articles. This will include newspapers published in each state and territory from the 1800s to the mid-1950s, when copyright applies.

Facsimile images of the complete digital edition of The Times (London) for the period 1785-1985. Off campus access is available for current Murdoch staff and students only.

National Library of Australia site. Provides access to the home pages and in some cases recent full text of Australian newspapers. Links to many regional newspapers are available. Select by title, state or town.

Portal to online news sources from around the world. Primarily newspapers but also many broadcast stations, internet services, magazines, and press agencies.

Newspapers worldwide, by country.

News service focussing on environmental, sustainability, human rights and globalisation issues.

​Innovative site that displays daily newspaper front pages from around the world in their original, unedited form.

Printed index to national and international current affairs based on information obtained from press, broadcasting, official and other sources.

Held in the Reference Collection in the Main Library of the Murdoch campus at R 905 K26 1.

Murdoch Library holds a number of newspaper titles in print and in some cases on microfilm.