LibGuides: Newspapers, magazines & articles on current affairs: Home

Read the latest news and current affairs

Several reputable newspapers have websites with a lot of free content; e.g. The Guardian's online content is completely free, without premium fees. You can also use the library's databases to find current online content of many papers and magazines. A recommended, and easy to use resources is Gale OneFile: News. Simply click on Publication Search and search for your preferred newspaper to read the latest issue.This libguide also includes instructions on how to use two other databases, Factiva and Nexis Uni, to find current news. Click on the tabs for detailed instructions.

in Gale OneFile: News you can find The Times, The Economist, USA Today, Washington Post, Times of India, and many more.
in Factiva you can find Forbes, El Pais, The Times, The Wall Street Journal, and many more. Additionally, Factiva's Homepage gives an easy overview of current headlines of major newspapers and magazines.
in Nexis Uni you can find Der Spiegel, NRC, Volkskrant, The Daily Telegraph, and many more.

The library also provides online access to:

Het Financieele Dagblad,*
The New York Times and its mobile app**,
Le Monde Diplomatique and The Wall Street Journal through ProQuest,
and unlimited mobile access to all Financial Times FT.com digital content***.

Alternatively, browse various national and international print newspapers and weekly news magazines at the University Library on the ground floor, opposite the Information Desk (West 0). Magazines are placed in magazine racks at the reading desks and updated weekly. In the nearby newspaper stand you can find daily updated newspapers. Titles include, among others:

Het Algemeen Dagblad
Het Financieele Dagblad
De Telegraaf
Trouw
De Volkskrant
The Financial Times
The Economist
The Guardian

* Registration is necessary, first time use automatically leads to sign-up page. After sign-up you can log in with the same account in the app.

** The NY Times app requires a one-time registration while connected to the EUR network (on campus or via EduVPN). Register for the NY Times here.

*** Off campus usage and access through the FT app require an account. Register for FT with your EUR email address here.

Dive into the news archives

Find archived newspapers and other news sources in one of our many newspaper/news databases, ranging from sources over 100 years old to today's paper. They offer the option to search by subject, by publication, a combination of both, and more. Among these databases are:

Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
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Database with access to full-text newspaper articles and other news sources (Dutch and international).

Nexis Uni News contains major world publications (for example Financial Times), newspapers (including Dutch newspapers,such as De Volkskrant and NRC Handelsblad) and news wires like PR Newswire.
Also included is company information, law reviews and cases
Please note: Legal news, Law reviews and legal cases are mostly American.
Date range: The date range and update schedule differs per source. However, as the collection only contains born-digital material, the oldest items are from around 1990.
Related databases: Factiva; Delpher
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Factiva contains business information and news from local and global newspapers like the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal, trade journals, magazines and newswires like Dow Jones, Reuters and the Associated Press.
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Comprehensive collection of Dutch newspapers (up to 1995), magazines, radio bulletins and books, digitized by the Koninklijke Bibliotheek - National Library of the Netherlands.
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Full-text coverage of The New York Times (1851-2018), the Los Angeles Times (1881-1995), The Wall Street Journal (1889-2004), and The Times of India (1838-2010).

Each year around December 12 months of content of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Times of India is added to the database.

Related database: Gale Primary Sources: Newspaper archives
Gale OneFile: News This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to more than 2,300 major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers, as well as leading titles from around the world. Of almost 50% of the titles the newest editions are available full-text (without photos), including The Economist, Newsweek, The Washington Post (as of 2014), New Delhi Times (as of 2016), Global Times (China, as of 2018) and The Huffington Post (as of July 2020).

To find a specific title, use the Advanced search option.

A list of all titles currently available can be downloaded from this page (search for 'Gale OnFile: News').
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Search interface for all Gale newspapers available at EUR. Click 'Newspapers' to search in all or a selection of titles. Available are:

- The Economist, 1843-2015
- Financial Times Historical Archive 1888-2016 Access guaranteed until March 30, 2023
- The Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003 Access guaranteed until March 30, 2023
- The Independent Historical Archive 1986-2016 Access guaranteed until March 30, 2023
- International Herald Tribune Historical Archive, 1888-2013 Access guaranteed until March 30, 2023
- The Telegraph Historical Archive 1855-2016 Access guaranteed until March 30, 2023
- The Times, 1785-2014

Gale Digital Scholar Lab offers advanced text analysis tools to use on a self-made selection of articles from these newspapers.

Related database: ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Gale General OneFile This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to content from periodicals and news media from 1980 up to today, both text based as well as audiovisual. More than 40% of the content is unique to the database.

A key feature of the Advanced Search option is that you can filter on very specific document (=content) types: from Advertisement and Aerial photography to Speech and Television programs. A list of all titles currently available in this database can be downloaded from this page (search for 'Gale General OneFile').

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