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How to access the Financial Times online for free

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Oxford University has a subscription to the Financial Times Online, which is available to staff and students with an Oxford University email address.

The subscription includes access to subscriber-rated content and a Power Search facility that gives access to 8 years of the FT, along with 22 million articles from 500 of the world’s leading business press publications.

When accessing for the first time you must register and create an account using the instructions below.

You first need to register by visiting:

https://eres-host-prd.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/published/passwords.html

Scroll down to find the entry for Financial Times (FT.com).

Click the link to be taken to the registration page on the Financial Times website.

Because you have come via the University’s eResources passwords page, the site will recognise you as a member of the University of Oxford

Use your University of Oxford email address to register.

You will receive an email containing a link to set up a password for your account. After setting up your account, you will have access to the Financial Times Online both on and off campus.

Historical Archive


An historical archive of the Financial Times can be accessed via SOLO. It includes content spanning the period 1888 – 2016.

 

 

 

 

 

Keep up to date with the news: how to access our newspaper collections online

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Want to keep up to date with world events? Want to do some research using past newspaper content? You can do both by accessing our extensive collection of online newspapers. Individual titles are accessible via SOLO and can be accessed remotely with a SSO (Single Sign On). An example of just some of the holdings in our collection can be viewed below:

Financial Times 1888 – 2016

Guardian 1821 – 2003

Observer 1791 – 2003

New York Times 1851 – 2015

Times 1785 – 2014

Note that these historical archives of the titles listed above, do not show the latest issues. To view more recent content, many newspapers are available to be browsed via the following databases:

Factiva

Largely for contemporary newspapers (1980s-). Provides essential news for the UK, America and Europe with a collection of more than 10,000 authoritative sources includes thousands of current newspapers. Excellent for national but also local, regional newspapers and specialist or professional news. There is much overlap with Nexis UK, (see below) so if you can’t find a newspaper in Factiva, then try there instead.

Nexis UK

Largely for contemporary newspapers (1980s-). Vast database that provides access to over 20,000 news sources from all over the world. Particularly excellent for UK, North American and much of Europe. Its coverage is largely current and recent, but does go back 20 years in some cases. For UK newspapers, generally covers broadsheets from 1980s and tabloids and local/ regional newspapers from more recently.

Further information about the Bodleian Libraries’ newspaper collections is available here.