New Zealand Newspapers and Magazines

We have become used to the free availability of current issues of newspapers online through such sites as Stuff but you will usually be charged a fee to read older articles from their archives. I was asked yesterday about free access to newspaper articles and was happy to report that it is available though the Newztext Database. The titles covered are

• Waikato Times (1/5/96 to date)
• Sunday Star Times (8/12/95 to date)
• Sunday News (8/12/95 to date)
• The Dominion (1/1/95 to 6/7/02)
• The Dominion Post (8/7/02 to date)
• The Evening Post (1/1/95 to 6/7/02)
• The Press (7/6/96 to date)
• The Timaru Herald (1/7/96 to date)
• Evening Standard (15/6/96 to date)
• The Daily News (12/8/96 to date)
• Truth (8/12/95 to date)
• The Southland Times (1/3/97 to date)
• Taupo Times
• Nelson Mail (1/7/97 to date)
• Whangarei Leader
• Stuff
• NZ Herald (ca.1998 - date)
• NZ Herald Classifieds (5 June 2002 - date)
• Radio New Zealand Newswire (1999 - date)

Newztext is not an archive in the sense that you cannot look at complete issues of newspapers but it is a searchable fulltext database. This means that you can find all articles containing the words sustainable, horticulture and Massey. A huge amount of material relevant to university research, particularly in the applied sciences, appears on fish and chip wrappers and to be able to track it all down can be really useful.

A companion product Newztext Magazines covers such major business titles as the NBR and the Independent as well as NZ Dairy Exporter and a number of other specialist trade titles.

Both databases can be found through the Article Databases link on the Library home page.