Economics - News & Newspapers

Northwestern Community only (available only to Northwestern faculty, students, and staff)

  • Asia-Studies Full-Text Online NU resource
    The premier database for the study of modern Asia Pacific. Includes thousands of full-text reports covering 53 countries on a multitude of business, government, economic, and social issues.  Country coverage includes all of Asia, Australia/New Zealand, the Americas Pacific Rim countries, and Pacific islands. 
  • Chicago Tribune NU resource
  • China Core Newspapers NU resource
    Chinese langauge periodicals. From the year 2000+, access to over 125,000 new full-text articles per year primarily on "Politics/Military/Law" with other topics as well.  These are predominately in Chinese, some English, some both.
  • Chronicle of Higher Education NU resource
    University-wide online subscription is now available.
  • Crain's Chicago business NU resource
  • The Economist Historical Archive NU resource
    “The Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003 (’EHA’) is the fully searchable complete facsimile edition of The Economist, the weekly paper which is essential reading for anyone engaged in politics, current affairs and all aspects of business and trade worldwide. In 8,000 issues and more than 600,0000 pages, EHA offers full-colour images, multiple search indexes, topic and area supplements and surveys, together with a gallery of front covers and a selection of exportable financial tables. Altogether this is a unrivalled multidisciplinary primary source for researching and teaching the 19th and 20th centuries.” Recent issues of The Economist NU resource are available.
  • Factiva NU resource
    Provides news and business information.
  • Historical Washington Post (ProQuest) NU resource
    Full-text of the Post, from 1877 to 1990. Available to Northwestern students, faculty and staff. The Post is part of the library's suite of ProQuest Historical Newspapers, which also includes the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Defender, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and the Wall Street Journal.
  • New York times NU resource
    Historical edition, full-image articles from the first issue in 1851 through the end of 2001. Current editions are also available in a variety of electronic forms.
  • Times Digital Archive NU resource
    Full-text searchability of the Times of London from 1785 to 1985.
  • Latinnews.com NU resource
    Access to Latin American news, politics, economy, etc., including Latin American-Asia Review, is now available.  The Latin Intelligence Service (LIS) provides a premier comprehensive intelligence service on 33 countries in Central America, Latin America and the Caribbean; covering political, security, economic and strategic issues.
  • Le Monde, online version NU resource
  • Wall Street Journal (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) NU resource
    Historical edition, full-image articles for the period 1889 to 1987. Current versions of various editions of the journal are also available in electronic form.
  • WESS: Selected European News and Newspapers




For further information, contact:

Harriet Lightman
Head, Academic Liaison Services
Subject Librarian for History, Economics, and Philosophy
Northwestern University Library
1970 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208-2300
h-lightman@northwestern.edu
(847) 491-2920
Office Location: Room 2622, 2nd Floor, East Tower, Main Library

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Last updated: 01/22/08