PressReader a service

Read magazines from all over the world

Did you know that PressReader is a digital service that makes it possible to read newspapers and weekly magazines from all over the world, either on your computer or mobile phone? Annika Svantesson, university librarian at the Social Sciences Library, explains how to go about it.

– IT’S EASY, everything is on the UB website. What is unique about PressReader is that it contains 7,000 newspapers and weekly magazines from 100 countries in 60 languages. It does not have everything, but it has a tremendous amount of material and the advantage is that you get an exact copy of the printed newspaper. Unfortunately, it does not have all the Swedish daily newspapers, but it has Göteborgs-Posten and Svenska Dagbladet. You can search for anything going back one year and you can select country, language or subject. It is not primarily for research purposes, but for providing access to daily newspapers and weekly magazines.

– This means that as a student, employee or foreign guest researcher, you can read the daily newspapers without paying for them. For more scientific purposes there is Mediearkivet (the Media Archive) as well as Factiva, where you can search and read articles in full. Here, the material spans a much longer time frame and there is more comprehensive coverage of the Swedish and international daily press and industry press.

How do you access the services from home? – Use your GU account to log on to the library’s databases, electronic journals and e-books when you are off campus. When it comes to PressReader you can

also read material on a mobile device, up to a maximum of 5 issues in a 24-hour period.

How good is the University Library at providing digital services? – It is something we are investing heavily in, in different formats. It’s great that all of our students and staff have access to everything, just a few clicks away. We have a lot of e-resources, you just have to go to our homepage (https://www.ub.gu. se) and search, or contact us if you have any questions or suggestions for purchasing journals, books or databases. The contact links are at the top of each page.