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Know UK and Newsstand joint package (discounted pricing 2010-2013)

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Know UK is a collection of current UK-specific reference information from over 100 of the most widely used reference publications in the UK. Newsstand provides international, national and regional news, combining regional and national British newspaper and magazine titles in a single database.

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Subject Areas

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Health and Life Sciences
  • Science, Engineering and Technology
  • Social Sciences

Know UK is relevant to a variety of courses, such as geography, tourism and politics. See the user guides in the KnowUK user resources area for further information about using this database in further education. Newspapers are a valuable research source for almost any discipline. Newsstand is particularly relevant for courses such as media studies, politics and business studies.

Academic Levels

  • Undergraduate
  • AS/A Level / Scottish Higher National
  • Diploma
  • Professional / CPD courses
  • Vocational

Know UK is useful for subject research and as a general library resource for HE and FE. For example, it can be useful for investigating courses (UK Course Discover), grants (Educational Grants Directory), and researching information about personal health or finance.

Resource Types

  • databases
  • databases with full text
  • news media
  • reference works
  • magazines

Newsstand also contains magazine titles.

Further information

This resource is updated irregularly.

Know UK:

KnowUK is updated weekly with new editions. Titles will be removed and added but the overall count will remain at around 100.

Newsstand:

Newsstand is updated daily and newspapers are usually available the day after publication in print. Magazines are usually available around a week after print publication but there are embargoes on a few titles. News Topics pages are updated once a week with recent headlines, and with new images and background reading once a month. Additional regional newspapers and magazines will be added in future releases.