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Keep up-to-date with the latest developments in relevant research areas

News alerts

Create alerts for your favourite media sources to keep up-to-date with topics that are making the news.

The Conversation

The Conversation is the world’s leading publisher of topical research-based news and analysis. Sign up for the Daily Newsletter or select from the range of RSS feeds.

Access newspapers and set up alerts

Via a Discovery search

There are two methods for searching for newspapers in Discovery.

  1. Search the Discovery catalogue for a topic of your choice.

To view a list of newspaper articles from the library's collection, select the Newspapers search option at the bottom of the results page or from the 'refine my results' section. 

  1. Search the Discovery catalogue for a specific newspaper title.

On the results page, select the Online access link located underneath the title and then click on the database name to access the collection.

Via ProQuest Newsstream databases

Search Australia & New Zealand newsstream database to access leading Australian and New Zealand newspapers containing the latest local, regional and national news or search across US or International sources to locate global news events.

Set up alerts to be notified when newspaper articles matching your search criteria are published.

  1. Create a My Research account and sign in.

  1. Search for your topic:

  1. On the results page, click on 'Save/search alert' on the right of the screen:

  1. Click ‘Create alert’ (or ‘Create RSS feed’ if that is your preference):

  1. Fill in the form and click 'Create alert':

  1. You will now receive alerts when content matching your search is added to the relevant ProQuest database.

Access the library's Newspapers guide for more information about Australian and international news and newspaper resources.

Social media

There are many social media sites that will enable you to keep up to date with developments in your research areas of interest.

  • X (formerly Twitter): Follow researchers and organisations on X to keep up to date.
  • Blogs: Most blogs have alerting services available and many can also be followed on X and Facebook.
  • LinkedIn: The world's largest professional networking website.
  • Connect with other researchers on sites such as Academia.edu and ResearchGate.