Newspapers are valuable both for coverage of the most recent events and for offering insight into social political and economic history. Some historic and current examples are free online. here are some recommended sites. http://lselibraryresearch.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/open-access-week-freenewspaper.html
Historic collections.
British Newspapers 1800-1900 <http://newspapers11.bl.uk/blcs/>
Search 49 local and national titles using keywordsView complete articles from the Penny Illustrated Paper and The Graphic free of charge. Others unfortunately charge visitors. However UK HE collecges usually have free acess
Nineteenth Century Serials Edition (ncse) <http://www.ncse.ac.uk/index.html>
Free, online edition of six nineteenth-century periodicals and newspapers, including Northern Star (1838-1852) and The Leader (1850-1859). Contains extensive commentary on each title as well as the project's editorial process
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers <http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica>
Excellent free website maintained by the Library of Congress. Search hundreds of full text newspapers from 1860-1922. Site also has information about American newspapers from 1690 onwards.
Papers Past <http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast> Maintained by the National Library of New Zealand. Access hundreds of national and regional titles from 1839-1945.
Hemeroteca Nacional Digital de México <http://www.hndm.unam.mx/>
Page images and full-text search of nearly 600 titles ranging from 1722 to 1978.
ICON - International Coalition on Newspapers <http://icon.crl.edu/>
Consortium of member libraries (Mainly USA) based who are seeking to preserve and improved access to newspapers worldwide. The website includes a database of bibliographic information about newspapers published worldwide. It also maintains an excellent directory of links to historic newspaper digitisation projects.
Heather dawson
LSE Library
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