New subscription to NewsBank Access Global

ACU library is proud to announce access to a new comprehensive newspaper database, NewsBank Access Global.

NewsBank encompasses more than 7,000 global news sources from 200 countries and territories, with over 600 from Australia. It includes all the popular Australian daily, weekly and Sunday newspapers.

Popular Australian news sources

National

NSW

Queensland

Victoria

ACT

Quick facts

  • Current and historical full-text newspapers and news information, searchable with an intuitive interface and search navigators.
  • Contains a variety of source types, such as online news sites, newswires, blogs, videos, audio recordings, broadcast transcripts, and other media.
  • Includes multiple source formats, such as text only and original layout PDF image editions.
  • Covers Australian community, regional and rural titles as well as major national titles.
  • Features include citation exporting tools, text-to-speech capability and nifty map-based searching, that lets you isolate or combine source locations using a world map.

This resource supports research across a wide range of subject areas, including Political Science, Journalism, History, Environmental Studies, Sociology, Economics, Education, Business, Health and Social Sciences.

Other than perusing your newspaper of choice, you could try using NewsBank to easily:

  • conduct background research
  • compare and analyse differing views on the same topic
  • track news events over time
  • prepare for class discussions, speeches, debates, and research papers.

Watch a short video demonstration of NewsBank (YouTube, 3 mins)

 


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