UK Papers

National Broadsheets

• Daily Telegraph
• Financial Times
• The Guardian (Archive)
• The Independent
• The Times

National Tabloids

• The Daily Mail
• The Daily Star
• The Express
• The Mirror
• The Sun (Archive)

US Papers

 Directory of Newspaper Archives in the United States

National Broadsheets

• Los Angeles Times (Archive)
• New York Times (Archive)
• USA Today (Archive)
• Washington Post (Archive)

There is no nation-wide tabloid of importance in the United States.

German Papers

 Directory of Newspaper Archives in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland

National Broadsheets

• Financial Times Deutschland (FTD)
  The Financial Times Deutschland, an offspring of the British Financial Times is Germany's youngest national broadsheet. It focuses on economic issues. Its archives comprise all articles since its inception in February 2000.
• Frankfurter Allgemeine (FAZ)
  The Frankfurter Allgemeine is Germany's flagship conservative newspaper. Its archive starts in 1993 and can be searched for free, but the viewing of a complete article costs between € 0.75 and 2.50 (UK-� 0.50-1.75).
• Frankfurter Rundschau (FR)
  The Frankfurter Rundschau is Germany's smallest national broadsheet. It is generally considered to hold left-liberal views. It's archive from 1994 can be accesses for a fee per article.
• Handelsblatt
  With a circulation of about 140,000, the Handelsblatt is Germany's biggest newspaper that focusses on economics. Its political slant is liberal. The Handelsblatt online archives start in 1984, each retrieved article costs between ¢ 20 and &euro 1.80.
• Neues Deutschland
  Neues Deutschland was the government newspaper in the former GDR. Its circulation, mainly sold on the territory of the former GDR, has plummeted to about 60,000 in recent years. It is still somewhat supportive of the Reform Communists (PDS). Its online archives can be accessed for free, alas the begin only in 2001.
• Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ)
  With a circulation of about 450,000, the Süddeutsche Zeitung edges Frankfurter Allgemeine for being the most widely read German broadsheet. Its political stance can be characterized as left-liberal. Its online archive, which runs from 1992 and also contains full-page articles in pdf-format, can be accessed for a yearly subscription rate of € 72 (ca. UK-� 50).
• die tageszeitung (taz)
  die tageszeitung, originally an offspring New Social Movements, is today Germany's most opinionated left-liberal paper. It's web archives go back to 1986 and can be accessed for a € 5 (UK-� 3) monthly fee. Alternatively, the CD-ROM with all articles since 1986 can be ordered for € 50.
• Die Welt
  Die Welt is the most conservative broadsheet in Germany. It's archives reach from 1995 and still can be accessed for free.

The only national tabloid in Germany is Bild. With its circulation of more than 4,000,000 on weekdays, it reaches more than double the combined total of all national broadsheets, and more than quadruple the audience of the largest local paper, the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ) (free archive from 1997). Bild's political stance is slightly rightist, but populist would probably be a more accurate description. Unfortunately, its online archive was closed down in 2002.

Databases

• LexisNexis
  LexisNexis is undoubtedly the most extensive database on newspaper data, it contains full text articles of all major US and European papers as well as most local US papers. Unfortunately, unless your institution is a subscriber, access to LexisNexis is very cost intensive (around US-$ 5 per retrieved document).
•  Links to Archives of Newspapers (worldwide)
•  Paperball
  Paperball is a search machine for German News. It searches all major national and local papers. Unfortunately, you can only search the news of the current day.