Newspapers

The University and State Library of Münster has one of the largest newspaper collections in Germany.
At the beginning of 2003, the two most substantial newspaper collections at the university were merged: the press archive of the Department of Communication (IfK) and the newspaper archive of the ULB. The resulting Newspaper Archive (ZuP) with a reading room and various devices for making (digitised) copies was housed in Bispinghof 24/25 (building of the Alte Universitätsbibliothek – former library building) and could be used on site until it was dissolved in this form in mid-2024.

Search

All newspapers are listed in KatalogPlus.

If you are searching for newspapers from a specific area in Westphalia, you may want to try the search menu.

More search options may be found in the ZDB.

Further research tips

Electronic Newspapers

For students and staff of the University of Münster, a selection of full text newspapers is available online in the university network.
E-paper editions of more than 130 newspapers produced in Westphalia from 2013 (WN 1946) to last week can be used on certain computers at the ULB.
The zeit.punktNRW portal provides free access to historical newspapers from the region of NRW.

Use

Microfilms can be ordered via KatalogPlus in the reading room of the Central Library.
Microfiches can be used in the DigiLab of the ULB Central Library.
Printed newspapers of the shelfmark group Ztg FOL and ZP can be ordered via a web form and are available for use in the Law Library II (Bispinghof 24/25). The conditions for ordering and issuing can be found on the web form
Some local and national daily newspapers can be found in the cafeteria of the Central Library.

To re-enlarge micro-materials, a microform scanner and a microfiche reader are available in the DigiLab of the ULB.