This paper is focusing on access model for historical and contemporary newspapers in the Serials Collection of the National and University Library in Slovenia (NUL). It shortly discusses the history of microfilming of newspapers in the NUL, its advantages in the 1980s and its disadvantages in the digital 21st century. The paper summarises the beginnings of the digitisation of the newspapers, too. A qualitative analysis of the microfilmed material is made and, in addition analysis of copies for end users, made from both media. The paper suggests the possibilities of improvements of the current state and recommends changes of the existing access model with the purpose to meet the digital demands of the current and future reader. A partnership between the NUL and publishers is suggested in order to enable ingests all editions of a publisher's newspapers via digital copies, and to make them available on a page level, read-only basis in the Serials Collection reading-room.