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Databases and Research Tools, Format = Newspapers

  • 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers

    The newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) represent the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media available from the British Library.
  • 19th Century U.S Newspapers

    Provides access to primary source newspaper content from the 19th century, featuring full-text content and images from numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S. The collection encompasses the entire 19th century, with an emphasis on such topics as the American Civil War, African-American culture and history, Western migration and Antebellum-era life, among other subjects.
  • Access World News

    Full-text access to newspapers at the local, state, regional, national and international levels.  From Newsbank.

     Coverage: Varies
  • African American Newspapers: The 19th Century

    Full-text of african american 19th century newspapers: Freedom's Journal, The Colored American, The North Star, The National Era, Provincial Freeman, Frederick Douglass Paper, and The Christian Recorder,

     Coverage varies, 1827 - 1902.
  • African Newspapers

    Full-text, primary-source archive of historical African newspapers. Includes over 60 newspapers published between 1800 and 1924 in Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, and other countries across sub-Saharan Africa. Part of the Readex World Newspaper Archive.

     1800-1924
  • America's Historical Newspapers

    Searchable database of text of early American newspapers. Articles and pages can be viewed as images in a Web browser, or downloaded as pdf documents. Part of the Archive of Americana collection from Newsbank/Readex.

     Covers: 1690-1876.
  • Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective

    The database from Accessible Archives contains the full text of major articles gleaned from over 2,500 issues of The New York Herald, The Charleston Mercury, and the Richmond Enquirer, published between November 1, 1860 and April 15, 1865.

     Covers: 1860-1865
  • Early American Newspapers Digital

    Full-text facsimile images of newspapers published in the U.S. between 1690-1876.

     Covers: 1690-1876.
  • EENews

    E&E News is composed of four daily publications that track energy, environmental and climate policy. Publications include GreenWire, Climatewire, E&E Daily, E&E DailyPM, LandLetter and reports.
  • Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980

    Full-text database of English and Spanish language newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries.

     Covers: 1808-1980.
  • Kikuzo Visual II (Asahi Shimbun Co.)

    Newspaper database for Asahi shinbun 1945+. Also includes articles from the weekly magazines Aera and Shukan Asahi, and from the annual new-word dictionary Chiezo.Text is in Japanese.

     Covers 1945+
  • LexisNexis Academic (Lexis Nexis Academic)

    News coverage in national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources. Company information. Federal and states court cases back to 1789.

     Coverage varies
  • Los Angeles Times (1881-1988)

    Database of digital full-text articles the Los Angeles Times (1881-1888) from Proquest.

     Covers: 1881-1986.
  • Los Angeles Times (1985-current)

    Digital full-text database of current Los Angeles Times articles (1985+) from Proquest.

     Covers: 1985 - current.
  • Multidata Online

    A searchable index to 250 Arabic newspapers.
  • New York Times (1980 - current)

    Database of full-text New York Times articles. From Proquest.

     Covers: 1999 - current.
  • Newsbank US Newspapers

    Part of Newsbank's "Access World News" site. Searchable text of over 800 news sources in the United States.  Includes newspapers, blogs, and some video feeds.
  • Newspaper Source (EBSCOhost)
    Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 U.S. & international newspapers. The database also contains selective full text for 389 regional (U.S.) newspapers. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are also provided.
    Ebsco
  • Official Index to the Times

    Historical coverage of the London Times newspaper. Provides citations to the text available on microfilm in McHenry Library. This resource is part of the "Historical Newspapers Online" site.

     Covers 1906-1980.
  • Palmer's Index to the London Times, with Palmer's Full-text

    Index to articles from historical London Times newspaper published 1790-1905 (available on microfilm in McHenry Library). Full text images are available for the years 1790 to 1870.  This resource is part of the 'Historical Newspapers Online' site.

     Covers 1790-1905, full text available for 1824-1870.
  • Pennsylvania Gazette

    Database from Accessible Archives that contains the full text of the newspaper, 1728 - 1800. The Pennsylvania Gazette is considered newspaper of record for the 18th century.

     Covers 1728-1800.
  • People's Daily (Ren Min Ri Bao)

    Access to full text of People's Daily newspaper archives, in Chinese.

     1946-2005
  • Pravda Digital Archive 1912-2009

    Pravda (or “Truth”) was the official voice of Soviet communism and the Central Committee of the Communist Party between 1918 and 1991, when Boris Yeltsin signed a decree closing Pravda down.  Founded in 1912 in St. Petersburg, Russia, Pravda originated as an underground, daily workers’ newspaper, and soon became the main newspaper of the revolutionary wing of the Russian socialist movement.
  • Regional Business News

    Searchable database of articles from 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

     Covers: 1990 - current.
    Regional Business News
    Ebsco
  • San Francisco Chronicle (1865-1922)

    Full-text searchable database of the San Francisco Chronicle from Proquest.

     1865-1922
  • The New York Times (1851 - 2008)

    Database of full-text New York Times articles.  Full text covers New York Daily Times (1851-1857) and the New York Times (1857-2001). From Proquest.

     Covers: 1851-2001.
  • The Wall Street Journal (1984 - current)

    Searchable database of Wall Street Journal articles from Proquest.

     Covers: 1982-current.
  • Times Digital Archive

    Complete, searchable digital edition of The Times (London) from 1785-2006.  Includes all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching.  Provides facsimile images of individual articles or a complete page.

     Covers 1785-2006
    Gale
  • Vanderbilt Television News Archive

    The Television News Archive collection at Vanderbilt University is the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news. The site indexes individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and special news-related programming since 1989.
  • Wall Street Journal (1889-1994)

    Searchable database of full text Wall Street Journal articles (backfile) from Proquest.

     Covers 1889-1986.
  • World News Connection

    Searchable, full-text database of non-U.S. newspapers and other media sources. Includes translated and English-language news and information. WNC covers significant socioeconomic, political, scientific, technical, and environmental issues and events. Material is provided to the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS), a U.S. government agency.

     Covers: 2000-