Resource in Focus: The Economist
Resource in Focus: historic newspapers in Gale Primary Sources
We have access to a wide range of digitised British historic newspaper archives, which you can access through various different platforms (see the historic section of our newspaper resource guide for more detail). If you want to search across many historic newspapers at once, we would recommend using Gale Primary Sources.
Gale Primary Sources searches across 15 different archives, including major titles such as The Times, The Daily Mail, Financial Times and The Economist (all dating from their very first issue) together with historic collections of regional titles. You can select to search as many of the archives as you require.
Watch this short introductory video to help you get the best out of searching Gale Primary Sources. If you want information on how to access current, business and international news, then visit this page.
Finding international news: a how to guide
The Library’s online news resources are strongest for the UK, but we do also provide access to a wide range of historic and contemporary international news resources. You can find links to all relevant resources in the international section of our newspaper guide.
Historic archives
Our strongest non-UK historic resources are from the USA, as we have access to the New York Times archive, together with various archives from the Civil War period, plus a collection of microfilms from the Civil Rights period. The availability of historic newspaper archives depends very much on digitisation programmes in the country concerned. We have included links to those which are freely available (and be sure to investigate the Europeana newspaper project, which aims to aggregate millions of newspaper pages across many European countries.)
Contemporary news
Nearly all international newspapers have their own web site, but you are unlikely to find free access to their entire archive. However, the Nexis database enables you to search across thousands of newspapers, news magazines and newswires from across the world (though primarily Europe and the USA), dating back over twenty years to the present day (precise date coverage varies by title). You can search in various ways, by country, language, or search an individual newspaper. Watch the video below to find out how to use this fantastic resource.
Books added to the Library by students in SAPL (Semester Two 2017/18)
We have a service called “Books on Time” for students. This allows you to tell us about the books you need for your studies. If we don’t have the books you need, simply complete the web form and we’ll see if we can buy them. For books we already have in stock, if they are out on loan please make a reservation/hold request using Library Search.
Further information about Books on Time
In Semester two, academic year 2017/2018 we bought the following items after requests from students in SAPL.
There were 53 requests from 29 students totaling £2330 (38% of requests from undergraduates, 34% from Postgraduate taught and 28% from Postgraduate Research)
| Title | Now in stock |
| Ageing and Intergenerational Relations: Family Reciprocity from a Global Perspective | 1xlong |
| An Aboriginal Village in South Australia: A Snapshop of Davenport | 2xlong |
| Anatomy of a Soldier | 1xlong |
| Automating inequality: how high-tech tools profile,police and punish the poor | 1xlong |
| Campus and the City: Urban Design for the Knowledge Society | 1xlong, 1xebook |
| Carlo Scarpa and Castelvecchio Revisited | 1xlong |
| Cartographic Grounds | 1xlong |
| City With a Hidden Past | 1xlong |
| Climate Design: Solutions for Buildings that Can Do More With Less Technology | 1xlong |
| Code and Clay, Data and Dirt | 1xlong |
| Critical Studies of Innovation Alternative Approaches to the Pro-Innovation Bias | 1xlong |
| Design Manual for Bicycle Traffic | 1xlong |
| Die Wiener Hofburg 1705-1835: Die kaiserliche residenz vom Barock bis zum Klassizismus | 1xlong |
| Die Wiener Hofburg 1835-1918 | 1xlong |
| Facing the planetary | 1xlong |
| Formalizing Displacement: International Law and Population Transfers | 1xlong |
| Global Universities and Urban Development | 1xlong |
| Governance of the Smart Mobility Transition | 1xlong |
| Healing Garden | 1xlong |
| Immaterialism: Objects and Social Theory (Theory Redux) | 1xlong |
| Inside Megaprojects: Understanding Cultural Practices in Project Management | 1xlong |
| Interior Landscapes: A Visual Atlas | 1xlong |
| James Casebere: Works 1975-2010 | 1xlong |
| Liverpool One: Remaking a City Centre | 1xlong |
| Liverpool: shaping the city | 1xlong |
| Logo Modernism | 1xlong |
| Material Utopias | 1xlong |
| Mémoires | 1xlong |
| Of Planting and Planning: The making of British colonial cities (Planning, History and Environment Series) | 1xlong |
| On Photography; Walter Benjamin | 1xlong |
| Ottoman Izmir: The Rise of a Cosmopolitan Port, 1840-1880 | 1xlong |
| Planetary Echos: Exploring the Implications of Human Settlement in Outer Space | 1xlong |
| Public Transport: It’s Planning Management and Operation | 1xlong |
| Recto Verso: Redefining the Sketchbook | 1xlong |
| Social Capital Theory and Research | 1xlong |
| Space and Muslim Urban Life: At the Limits of the Labyrinth of Fez | 1xlong |
| The Architectural Unconscious: James Casebere and Glen Seater | 1xlong |
| The Ethnopoetics of Space and Transformation: Young People’s Engagement, Activism and Aesthetics | 1xlong |
| The Nature of Health: How America Lost, and Can Regain, a Basic Human Value | 1xlong |
| The Predictive Postcode | 1xlong |
| The University and the City: From Medieval Origins to the Present | 1xlong |
| The University and Urban Revival: Out of the Ivory Tower and into the Streets | 1xlong |
| The University as Urban Developer: Case Studies and Analysis | 1xlong |
| Time Saver Standards for Urban Design | 1xlong |
| Transport Matters: Integrated Approaches for Planning City-Regions | 1xlong |
| Urban Livelihoods: A People-Centred Approach to Reducing Poverty | 1xlong |
| Urban Living Labs: Experimenting with City Futures | 1xlong |
| Violence and the City in the Modern Middle East | 1xlong |
| Walter Pilcher: Skulpturen Modelle Zeichnungen | 1xlong |
| Work/Life: Williams Tsien | 1xlong |
| Writing the Modern History of Iraq | 1xebook |
| You can be Young and an Architect | 1xlong |
| Young Citizens: Young People’s Involvement in Politics and Decision Making | 1xlong |
Books added to the Library by students in GPS (Semester Two 2017/18)
We have a service called “Books on Time” for students. This allows you to tell us about the books you need for your studies. If we don’t have the books you need, simply complete the web form and we’ll see if we can buy them. For books we already have in stock, if they are out on loan please make a reservation/hold request using Library Search.
Further information about Books on Time
In Semester two, academic year 2017/2018 we bought the following items after requests from students in GPS.
There were 104 requests from 54 students totaling £4760.50 (60% of requests from undergraduates, 12% from Postgraduate taught and 28% from Postgraduate Research)
| Title | Now in stock |
| A Decade of Dark Humor: How Comedy, Irony and Satire Shaped Post-9/11 America | 1xlong |
| A Life in Trans Activism | 1xlong |
| A People Stronger: The Collectivisation of MSM and TG Groups in India | 1xlong |
| A People’s Peace in Cyprus: Testing Public Opinion on the Options for a Comprehensive Settlement | 1xlong |
| Affect, Space and Animals (Routledge Human-Animal Studies Series) | 1xlong |
| African religions and philosophy | 1xlong |
| Age Studies A Sociological Examination of How We Age and are Aged Through the Life Course | 1xlong |
| Age, Gender and Sexuality Through the Life Course: The Girl in Time | 1xlong |
| Aged by Culture | 1xlong |
| Animal Geographies: Place, Politics and Identity in the Nature-culture Borderlands | 1xlong |
| Animal Oppression and Human Violence: Domesecration, Capitalism, and Global Conflict (Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science and Law) | 1xlong |
| Animal Revolution: Changing Attitudes Towards Speciesism | 1xlong |
| Animal Rights/Human Rights: Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation (Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture) | 1xlong |
| Before birth: understanding prenatal screening | 1xlong |
| Café Society | 1xlong |
| Celebrity Humanitarianism and North-South Relations | 1xlong |
| Children’s Emotions in Policy and Practice | 1xlong |
| Criminal Love? Queer Theory, Culture and Politics in India | 1xlong |
| Critical Realism: An Introduction to Roy Bhaskar’s Philosophy | 1xlong, 1xebook |
| Culture and Politics: A Reader | 6xlong, 1xstc |
| Cyprus: A Conflict at the Crossroads | 1xlong |
| Debates in values-based practice: arguments for and against | 1xlong |
| Different Faces of Attachment: Cultural Variations on a Universal Human Need | 1xlong |
| Disrupting homelessness. | 1xlong |
| Domestic Animals, Humans, and Leisure: Rights, Welfare, and Wellbeing (Routledge Research in the Ethics of Tourism Series) | 1xlong |
| Emotions and Social Relations | 1xlong |
| Expatriate identities in postcolonial organizations: working whiteness | 1xlong |
| Exploring Parliament | 1xlong |
| Feminism and Families | 1xlong |
| Foucault Beyond Foucault: Power and its Intensifications Since 1984 | 2xlong |
| Gendered Bodies: Feminist Perspectives | 1xlong |
| Global Homophobia: States Movements and the Politics of Oppression | 1xlong |
| Guns Don’t Kill People, People Kill People: And Other Myths About Gun Control | 1xlong |
| Handbook of Environmental Economics | 1xlong |
| Hijras, the Labelled Deviants | 1xlong |
| How Europeans View and Evaluate Democracy | 1xlong |
| Human and Other Animals: Critical Perspectives | 1xlong |
| Identity and Social Change | 1xlong |
| Imagining the Modern: The Cultures of Nationalism in Cyprus | 1xlong |
| Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi | 1xlong |
| Justice for Laughing Boy: Connor Sparrowhawk – A Death by Indifference | 1xlong |
| Laughing Matters: Humor and American Politics in the Media Age | 1xlong |
| Let Africa Lead | 1xlong |
| Local Agency and Peacebuilding: EU and International Engagement in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Cyprus and South Africa | 1xlong |
| Loneliness and its Opposties: Sex, Disability and the Ethics of Engagement | 1xlong |
| Made in India: Decolonizations, Queer Sexualities, Trans/National Projects | 1xlong |
| Markets of Dispossession NGOs, Economic Development and the State in Cairo | 1xlong |
| Masculinities in Transition | 1xlong, 1xebook |
| Me Hijra, Me Laxmi | 1xlong |
| Media and the Riots: A Call to Action | 1xlong |
| Minority Women and Austerity: Survival and Resistance in France and Britain | 1xlong |
| Muslim Spaces of Hope: Geographies of Possibility in Britain and the West | 1xlong |
| Nationbuilding, Gender and War Crimes in South Asia | 1xlong |
| Negotiating Europe: Europeanness Since the 1950s | 1xlong |
| Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of its Enemies | 1xlong |
| On What Matters: Volume 1 | 1xlong |
| Placing Animals: An Introduction To The Geography Of Human-Animal Relations (Human Geography In The Twenty-First Century: Issues And Applications) | 1xlong |
| Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK, Volume 2: The Dimensions of Disadvantage | 1xlong |
| Poverty Propaganda | 1xlong |
| Prostitution, Harm and Gender Inequality | 1xlong |
| Race and the Yugoslav Region: Postsocialist, Post-Conflict, Post-Colonial? | 1xlong |
| Regarding Animals (Animals Culture And Society) | 1xlong |
| Re-Imagining North Korea in International Politics | 1xlong |
| Religion Matters | 1xlong |
| Russian Homophobia from Stalin to Sochi | 1xlong |
| Smart Green Cities: Towards a Carbon Neutral World | 1xlong |
| Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks and Disasters | 1xlong |
| Social Lives With Other Animals: Tales of Sex, Death and Love | 1xlong |
| Social Mobility for the 21st Century: Everyone a Winner? | 2xlong |
| Sport and Postcolonialism | 1xlong, 1xebook |
| Switzerland and the European Union: a close, contradictory and misunderstood relationship | 1xlong |
| The Changing Nature of the Graduate Labour Market: Media, Policy and Political Discourses in the UK | 1xlong |
| The Concept of Race in South Asia | 1xlong |
| The Cyprus Referendum: A Divided Island and the Challenge of the Annan Plan | 1xlong |
| The Disability Studies Reader 2016 | 1xlong |
| The Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slavery | 1xlong |
| The European Union and Africa: The Restructuring of North-South Relations | 1xlong |
| The European Union and Africa: The Restructuring of North-South Relations | 1xebook |
| The Geopolitics of Emotion: How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation and Hope are Reshaping the World | 1xlong |
| The Intimate Lives of Disabled People | 1xlong |
| The Moral Economists: R. H. Tawney, Karl Polanyi, E. P. Thompson, and the Critique of Capitalism | 1xlong |
| The Myrdalsjokull Ice Cap: Glacial Processes, Sediments and Landforms on an Active Volcano | 1xebook |
| The New Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography | 1xebook |
| The New Social Mobility: How the Politicians Got It Wrong | 1xlong |
| The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It | 1xlong |
| The Public Shaping of Medical Research: Patient Associations | 1xlong |
| The Retreat of Western Liberalism | 1xlong |
| The Routledge Handbook of European Security | 1xlong |
| The Truth About Me: A Hijra Life Story | 1xlong |
| The Violence of Austerity | 1xlong |
| Tourism and Animal Ethics (Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility) | 1xlong |
| Tourism, Power and Culture: Anthropological Insights | 1xlong |
| Transitions to Adulthood Through Recession: Youth and Inequality in a European Comparative Perspective | 1xlong |
| Transnational Migration and Home in Older Age | 1xlong |
| Trust in International Cooperation: International Security Institutions, Domestic Politics and American Multilateralism | 1xlong |
| United Nations Development Programme and System | 1xlong |
| Violent Borders | 1xlong |
| We Kill Because We Can From Soldiering to Assassination in the Drone Age | 1xlong |
| What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions? (PostHumanities) | 1xlong |
| Women and Militant Wars: The Politics of Injury | 1xlong, 1xebook |
| Women in African Parliaments | 1xlong |
| Young People in the Labour Market: Past, Present, Future (Youth, Young Adulthood and Society) | 1xlong |
| Young People Re-Generating Politics in Times of Crisis | 1xlong |
| Young People’s Perspectives on Education, Training and Employment: Realising Their Potential | 1xlong |
Books added to the Library by students in ECLS (Semester Two 2017/18)
We have a service called “Books on Time” for students. This allows you to tell us about the books you need for your studies. If we don’t have the books you need, simply complete the web form and we’ll see if we can buy them. For books we already have in stock, if they are out on loan please make a reservation/hold request using Library Search.
Further information about Books on Time
In Semester two, academic year 2017/2018 we bought the following items after requests from students in ECLS.
There were 42 requests from 24 students totaling £2498.33(4% of requests from undergraduates, 58% from Postgraduate taught and 38% from Postgraduate Research)
| Title | Now in stock |
| Handbook of Research on Foreign Language Education in the Digital Age | 1xlong |
| Handbook of Research on Learning Outcomes and Opportunities in the Digital Age | 1xlong |
| Understanding Narrative Inquiry The Crafting and Analysis of Stories as Research | 1xlong |
| Agency at Work: An Agentic Perspective on Professional Learning and Development (Professional and Practice-based Learning) | 1xlong, 1xebook |
| Team Teaching and Team Learning in the Language Classroom Collaboration for innovation in ELT | 1xlong |
| Global Mental Health | 1xlong, 1xebook |
| The Child at School: Interactions With Peers and Teachers | 1xlong |
| An Introduction to Systematic Reviews | 2xlong |
| Communities of Practice: Critical Perspectives | 2xlong |
| Early Childhood Matters: Evidence from the Effective Pre-school and Primary Education Project | 1xlong |
| Arabic in the City: Issues in Dialect Contact and Language Variation | 1xebook |
| Mindful L2 Teacher Education: A Sociocultural Perspective on Cultivating Teacher’s | 1xlong |
| The Research Interview: Reflective Practice and Reflexivity in Research Processes | 1xlong |
| Best practice in professional supervision | 1xebook |
| Survey Methods in Multicultural, Multinational and Multiregional Contexts | 1xlong |
| Survey Methodology | 1xlong |
| The Network Challenge: Strategy, Profit and Risk in an Interlinked World | 1xlong |
| The Handbook of Communication Science | 1xlong |
| Entrepreneurial Marketing (2nd Edition) Sustaining Growth in All Organisations | 1xlong |
| The Sage Handbook of Process Organization Studies | 1xlong |
| Supporting Communication for Adults with Acute and Chronic Aphasia (Augmentative and Alternative Communication Series) | 1xlong |
| Reconceptualising Feedback In Higher Education: Developing Dialogue With Students | 1xlong |
| From Testing to Productive Student Learning: Implementing Formative Assessment in Confucian-Heritage Settings | 1xlong |
| Lesson Study : A Handbook of Teacher-led Instructional Change | 1xlong |
| Transcribing Talk and Interaction | 1xlong |
| Peer Learning in Higher Education: Learning From and With Each Other | 1xlong |
| Differentiation and Diversity in the Primary School | 1xlong |
| Religion, Identity and Politics in Northern Ireland: Boundaries of Belonging and Belief | 1xlong |
| Through the labyrinth: the truth about how women become leaders | 1xlong |
| Handbook on Peace Education | 1xlong |
| Educating for Peace in a Time of Permanent War: Are Schools Part of the Solution or the Problem? | 1xlong |
| Encyclopedia of Peace Education | 1xlong |
| Peace Education: Exploring Ethical and Philosophical Foundations | 1xlong |
| Colombia: Building Peace in a Time of War | 1xlong |
| Young People and Political Participation: Teen Players | 1xebook |
| Shaken & Stirred : The Feminism of James Bond | 1xlong |
| Getting Published in Academic Journals : Navigating the Publication Process | 1xlong |
| Introducing English for Academic Purposes | 5xlong, 1xebook |
| Corpus Approaches to Discourse: A Critical Review | 1xlong |
| The Language of Evaluation: Appraisal in English | 1xlong |
| The Routledge Handbook of Language Awareness | 1xlong |
| Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About It | 1xlong |
Books added to the Library by students in the Business School (Semester Two 2017/18)
We have a service called “Books on Time” for students. This allows you to tell us about the books you need for your studies. If we don’t have the books you need, simply complete the web form and we’ll see if we can buy them. For books we already have in stock, if they are out on loan please make a reservation/hold request using Library Search.
Further information about Books on Time
In Semester two, academic year 2017/2018 we bought the following items after requests from students in the Business School.
There were 50 requests from 24 students totaling £2808.13 (37% of requests from undergraduates, 37% from Postgraduate taught and 26% from Postgraduate Research)
| Title | Stock levels |
| International Economics | 4xlong |
| EU Securities and Financial Markets Regulation | 1xlong |
| Economics of Research and Development | 1xlong |
| A Philosophy for the Science of Well-being | 1xlong |
| How to Find Fulfilling Work | 1xlong |
| Service Automation: Robots and the Future of Work | 1xlong |
| The Fourth Industrial Revolution | 1xlong |
| Doing News Framing Analysis: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives | 1xlong |
| Social Construction in Context | 1xlong |
| Reflexive Methodology: New Visits for Qualitative Research | 1xlong |
| Instructional Design for eLearning: Essential Guide for Designing Successful eLearning Courses | 1xlong |
| Elements of Programming Interviews : The Insider’s Guide | 1xlong |
| Reflexivity and Voice | 1xlong |
| Redefining Global Strategy: Crossing Borders in a World Where Differences Still Matter | 1xlong |
| Corporate governance : theory and practice | 1xlong |
| Research Handbook on Employee Turnover | 2xlong |
| International human resource management : a European perspective | 1xlong |
| All About the Music 2018 | 1xlong |
| All About the Music 2017 | 1xlong |
| BPI Music Market 2016 | 1xlong |
| BPI Music Market 2015 | 1xlong |
| BPI Yearbook 2014 | 1xlong |
| The Institutional Logics Perspective : A New Approach to Culture, Structure and Process | 1xlong |
| Philanthropy in America: A comprehensive historical encyclopaedia | 1xlong |
| Getting rich America’s new rich and how they got that way | 1xlong |
| Gospels of wealth How the rich portray their lives | 1xlong |
| Inequality: What can be done | 1xlong |
| Philanthropy in America: A history | 1xlong |
| Casebook for the foundation : a great American secret | 1xlong |
| Mellon: An American life | 1xlong |
| End of an Era: How China’s Authoritarian Revival is Undermining Its Rise | 1xlong |
| The nonprofit almanac: The essential facts and figures for managers, researchers, and volunteers | 1xlong |
| How to Price : A Guide to Pricing Techniques and Yield Management | 5xlong, 1xebook |
| IQ and the Wealth of Nations | 1xlong |
| Historical Foundations of Entrepreneurship Research | 1xlong |
| Rock Brands: Selling Sound in a Media Saturated Climate | 1xlong |
| Factor Investing: From Traditional to Alternative Risk Premia | 1xlong |
| The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World’s Ancient Languages | 1xlong |
| Digital Food Activism | 1xlong |
| Global Opportunities for Entrepreneurial Growth: Coopetition and Knowledge Dynamics Within and Across Firms | 1xlong |
| Organizations: Structures, Processes and Outcomes | 1xlong |
| Giving well: The Ethics of Philanthropy | 1xlong |
| Alternative Food Networks : Knowledge, Practice and Politics | 1xlong |
| New Directions in the Sociology of Global Development (Research in Rural Sociology and Development) v.11 | 1xlong |
| The Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurial Finance | 1xlong |
| Organizing Supply Chain Processes for Sustainable Innovation in the Agri-Food Industry. Volume 5 | 1xlong |
| The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption | 1xlong |
| The SAGE Handbook of Small Business and Entrepreneurship | 1xstc, 1xebook |
| Transnational Management: Text and Cases in Cross-Border Management | 10xlong,1xstc |
| Giving well: The Ethics of Philanthropy
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1xlong |
Resource in Focus: Finding UK news with Lexis
Lexis is primarily a legal database, but it also provides access to UK news from 1990 to the present day.
This resource covers national and regional newspapers, as well as broadsheets. We speak to a lot of students and academics who don’t realise that this resource covers publications such as The Times Educational Supplement and The Times Higher Education (although we now also have an institutional account for The Times Higher Education. Details of how to set up an account and access it can be found here).
For more information on what sources are covered by Lexis, simply click on ‘Sources’ section located in the top right hand corner once you are logged in. Below is a short introductory video of how to access and find information in Lexis. If you are looking for information on how to access international and historic newspapers, as well as business and TV/audio news, then check out our newspaper resources guide.
Take off with our new dissertations and project toolkit!
Are you preparing a dissertation or project, or will be doing so soon?
Make sure you visit our brand new interactive dissertations and project toolkit. Based on the extensive experience of staff from the Library and Writing Development Centre, our new guide includes an interactive search planner, which takes you through the different stages of developing your search strategy, and enables you to create and download your personalised search plan.
The search planner is complemented by a project proposal planner, developed by our colleagues in the Writing Development Centre, to help you develop or refine your research proposal.
The guide also points you to further advice on a wide range of relevant skills, such as finding, managing and evaluating information. It also directs you to the key information resources for your subject area.
It’s easy to navigate, with clear text and short videos throughout. We hope you find it helpful, and if you’ve got any feedback, please let us know.