Print copies are available as library use only at Macmillan Brown Library, just send us an email at macbrown@libr.canterbury.ac.nz to request to view items. Due to many of the newspapers being held in a separate building to the Library, we are dependent on fine weather and we require at least one day’s notice for retrieval of large holdings.
Access to electronic newspapers is available to staff and students. For access off-campus, you will need to login using your UC username and password
If the country you are after is not on this list, feel free to send us an email.
Macmillan Brown Library holds a wide variety of historic and current newspapers from around the Pacific. The collection is largely print copies with some available on microfilm and through online access. Our holdings also include newspapers in a range of different languages, while there are titles that can also be categorised as periodicals. See more details on each country below.
Cook Islands News is our largest holding; we hold print copies from 1977– continuing as well as online access to the latest news articles.
We also have:
There are limited holdings of:
Cook Islands newspapers are primarily in English with some Rarotongan.
The Fiji Times is our largest collection in which the Library holds:
Sunday issues of The Fiji Times became Sunday Times; the Library has from 2013– continuing.
Oceania Daily News from 1948 to 1949 and Wansolwara from 1998 to 2010 are also available. All Fiji newspapers are in English.
Recent articles online are available for Kuam News and Pacific Daily News, these are both in English.
The Library catalogue provides links to recent articles from several Hawai'i newspapers online and are all available in English:
Archived issues of Honolulu Weekly are accessible online from 1991 to 2013.
The Library has incomplete holdings of Colony Information Notes from 1969–1970. This title became Atoll Pioneer, we have Jan–Feb 1981, and then it was called Te Uekera, with copies of 1981–1984 held, written in both Gilbertese and English.
Banaba Ocean Island News, no.21 and no.22 1996 in English are also available, and Valo between 1965 and 1974 on microfilm in Tuvaluan.
The Marshall Islands Journal continues to be received and the Library holds incomplete issues from 1988. These are in English with some Marshallese.
From Nauru, the Library holds:
These copies of Nauru newspapers are in English.
Le Depeche Kanak daily edition and French international edition are available on microfilm for the years 1988–1990.
The Library also has limited holdings of:
These papers are primarily in French with some English.
Niue Star for 1993 and 2004–2005 as well as Tohi tala Niue from 1977 to 1992 are available as incomplete holdings. Both are in English.
Recent articles from the Mariana Variety are available online.
The Library has Auckland Pacific Today, Oct. 2007 and Sept 2009 to Nov. 2009. This title changed to New Zealand Pacific, which the Library holds Nov. 2009 to Oct. 2013. We also hold Pacifica between 1984 and 1986.
From Palau, the Library has incomplete holdings of:
These are all in English.
Papua New Guinea Post Courier from 1977 to 2005 is the Library's largest holding.
We also have:
All newspapers are in English.
Of the Samoa Times, the Library holds issues from:
These are in Samoan with some English.
Samoa Observer, online access to recent articles (access to just one user at a time, please log out under 'Account' when finished); incomplete holdings from 1986 to 2008. There is also:
These are also primarily in Samoan with some English.
Other Samoan newspapers in the collection are:
From American Samoa, the Library holds:
Solomon Star is the Library’s largest holding of Solomon Islands newspaper. We have holdings from 1989–continuing as well as online access to recent articles and copies of Sunday Star from Aug. 2012– continuing.
The Library also has limited holdings of:
All our holdings are in English.
Recent material from the Solomon Times is also freely available online.
We have several Tahitian newspapers available in French:
The Library also holds Tahiti Sun Press between 1986 and 1990, in English.
Incomplete holdings for East Timor News are available between 1977 and 1978.
Ko e Kalonikali Tonga from Sept. 8, 1989 and Dec. 1999 to June 2009 is available as a bilingual edition. We also hold the English edition of Tonga Chronicle from 1979 to Dec 1999 and three issues in June 2009. This title became a section of Ko e Kalonikali Tonga from Dec. 1999.
Other Tongan newspaper titles held are:
From Tuvalu, the Library has limited print copies of Sikuleo o Tuvalu from 1989–1991, also available on microfilm from 1983 to 1991. In Tuvaluan.
Print copies of Tuvalua News Sheet from May 1978 to Dec. 1983, on microfilm from 1976 to 1983 and its later title Tuvalu Echoes from Dec. 1983 to May 1992. These titles are in Tuvaluan and English.
The following newspapers are also on microfilm:
Trading Post Vanuatu, between March 1995 and June 2003, is the Library’s largest holding of newspapers from Vanuatu. This title became Vanuatu Daily Post which the Library has from June 2003 to April 2011. These titles are in English. Recent news is also freely available online.
There are also limited holdings of: