News, magazines and research
A range of current and historic newspapers, magazines, and access to academic research.
Reference Online is available 24 hours a day, all year round and contains information on a variety of subjects including music, biography, news and essential reference. All you need to do is enter your library membership number - the nine-digit number without spaces - after clicking on each title. If you are not already a member you can join the library online.
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PressReader
PressReader gives you access to more than 7,000 of the world’s top newspapers and magazines. Explore titles such as The Guardian, The Daily Mail, First News, The Week Junior, Red, El Pais and The Washington Post
Access PressReader at home or in libraries.
OverDrive magazines
OverDrive gives you free access to the latest magazines, including Time, Gardener’s World, Mojo, What Car? and Computer Active. Every title is provided in high-res format identical to those in the newsagents, available on your PC or through the Libby App.
Access OverDrive at home or in libraries
Newsbank
The full text of UK national newspapers and selected local and regional newspapers, including some Oxfordshire titles.
Coverage start dates vary for each title with some starting in the 1980s - and most continuing to the current edition. The Oxford Mail and Oxford Times coverage is 2007 to the current edition.
Access Newsbank at home or in libraries
Which? magazine
Product reviews and trusted independent advice on consumer issues.
Branches with access to Which? magazine
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- Oxfordshire County Library
- Abingdon Library
- Banbury Library
- Benson Library
- Berinsfield Library
- Bicester Library
- Blackbird Leys Library
- Botley Library
- Burford Library
- Carterton Library
- Chinnor Library
- Chipping Norton Library
- Cowley Library
- Didcot Library
- Eynsham Library
- Faringdon Library
- Goring Library
- Grove Library
- Headington Library
- Henley Library
- Kidlington Library
- Sonning Common Library
- Summertown Library
- Thame Library
- Wallingford Library
- Wantage Library
- Watlington Library
- Wheatley Library
- Witney Library
- Woodcote Library
- Woodgreen Library
- Woodstock Library
Historical newspapers
British Newspaper Archive
The BNA contains 40 million newspaper pages from the 1800s right up to 1999. Filter your search by time period, region or place or publication. Only available in libraries - register here for a BNA account
British Library Nineteenth Century Newspapers
Of great interest to local and family historians, this collection contains 71 regional and local newspapers (including Jackson's Oxford Journal) of nineteenth century Britain.
Access at home or in libraries.
The Times Digital Archive 1785-2019
The complete Times newspaper in facsimile. Fully searchable – a fascinating record of 200 years of world news coverage.
Access at home or in libraries.
Research
The John Johnson Collection
This collection provides access to thousands of items selected from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera, offering unique insights into the changing nature of everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Categories include Nineteenth-Century Entertainment, the Booktrade, Popular Prints, Crimes, Murders and Executions, and Advertising.