The Library's collections include runs of more than 2,000 retrospective or current newspapers, magazines, journals, bulletins, annuals, and other serials from or about Denmark. Most of these are in the general collections. Current Danish periodicals are available, either in print or in microfilm, in the Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room. Sometimes, current Danish periodicals can also be found in onsite databases, like ProQuest International News Stream and Press Reader, or on the free Web.

English and foreign language newspapers once published in America can be located in Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. The database includes a partial listing of American newspapers in Danish. Digitized Danish-language American newspapers, including the St. Croix avis, can also be found here. (St. Croix, St. Thomas, and St. John, formerly the Danish West Indies, were sold by Denmark to the United States in 1917, making them the U.S. Virgin Islands. See also the U.S. Virgin Islands State Resource Guide of the Library of Congress).

It may also be helpful to consult the Danish Newspapers in the Library of Congress guide.

The list below is by no means a comprehensive listing but merely an attempt to capture some of the highlights in the collections in terms of Danish newspapers and journals. Typically, these are major Copenhagen newspapers with long runs in the Library's holdings, but a couple of regional newspapers of importance are also listed. While an effort has been made to represent the major humanistic and social scientific field journals, what is below is only a sampling of the scholarly literature in Danish or from Denmark.

Information about journals and newspapers is either taken from the publications' websites or Den store danske External.