Newspapers and FT.com at the Marshall Library - Jasper's Xmas Tip number 6

Print Newspapers

Fancy reading a daily print newspaper? During term-time we subscribe to The Times, The Daily Telegraph, Financial Times and The Economist.

You can find them by our easy chairs in the Reading Room.

Online Newspapers

You can access The Economist online by searching for The Economist on iDiscover via Proquest. Or you can go to the useful Newspapers Libguide: https://libguides.cam.ac.uk/newspapers

Here you will find many national and international newspaper archives on the left hand side under Newspaper Archives. Under Current newspapers on the right hand side of the guide under the picture you will find direct links to theo Economist, and the Financial Times. Clicking on this page takes you to a page that explains how to access FT.com online and how to register and set up your own account, so you can read FT.com on your own laptop, tablet, device or phone.

Also under Current newspapers you will find links to aggregator newspaper services e.g. Lexis Nexis and Factiva. These are great places to search for a particular news story or search by topic or theme. Lexis Nexis only covers UK news but Factiva is international, so you can find regional and national newspaper stories from across Europe and the US.

Accessing The Economist remotely during the Covid19 Emergency

Since the Library closed I have received a few enquiries from Economists asking about getting into The Economist (full text and graphics version) now we are all off campus. I have tried it myself on my home laptop and I also had problems - now resolved!

Here is my advice:

Follow the link from either the eresources AZ list or the link from the CJBS Information Centre databases page. This is the link you need: https://proxy.jbs.cam.ac.uk/login?url=https://www.economist.com/

Access is authenticated through our proxy server - unless you go through the link the Economist has no way of knowing who you are. This link is the only way for them to pick up Raven credentials from your computer. So clicking here in a new browser window should prompt you to login via Raven and you should no longer see a request to login half way down the page as you scroll through an article. N.B. Even when logged in this way you will always see subscribe and login buttons at the top but if you can click on an article and read it all the way through you are in.

If you are still having problems open a different browser - it works best in Chrome or Firefox. Try clearing cookies and cache and try again. I have a Mac and I understand many people are accessing it with no problem via Safari. However, in the end, what worked for me was downloading Chrome to my MacBook.

Remember you can always access the text only Proquest access to  The Economist. Just go into iDiscover and login. Search for 'The Economist' and it should be one of the first hits - follow the links through. Unfortunately this subscription will not show images, graphs and graphics.