LibGuides: Types of Resources: Open Access newspaper collections

Most newspapers are behind paywalls. The links on this page are for Open Access digital collections of newspapers, freely available to the public.

Current international news

Russian Independent Media Archive
Independent Russian media archived from the year 2000 through the present. The growing archive currently holds 44 media outlets

International Coalition on Newspapers (ICON) Newspaper Digitization Projects
From the Center for Research Libraries, a comprehensive list of links to past, present, and prospective digitization projects of historic newspapers.
Europeana Newspapers
Europeana hosts digitized newspapers from across Europe
Google News Archive
Google provides free access to scanned archives of newspapers and links to other newspaper archives on the web, both free and paid.

Global Press Archive
Over 1500 Open Access historical newspapers from East View, the Hoover Institution and Stanford Libraries. Collections include: Independent & Revolutionary Mexican, Late Qing & Republican-Era Chinese, Southeast Asian, Middle Eastern & North African, Imperial Russian, & more.