News & Newspapers

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Domestic Current News & Online Historical Newspapers

19th Century U.S. Newspapers Digital Archive
Access World News Access World News from NewsBank provides articles from over 600 U.S. and over 700 international sources on local, regional and world issues. Date coverage varies with the individual newspaper; some have several years of archives.
African American Newspapers and Periodicals A description of 4,000-6,000 titles and their locations. This web site lists microfilmed African American newspapers and periodicals available for Interlibrary borrowing.
AJR News Sources: Newspapers An index of both U.S. and international newspapers, which is searchable in useful ways such as by state, by country, and by type (daily, campus, major metro, etc.).
Alternative Press Index Citations to articles of 5 or more paragraphs from approximately 300 alternative, radical, and left publications.
AP Images About 800 photos per day feed into this photo archive moments after moving onto the AP's spot picture system. Over 3 million U.S. and international photos, from 1826 to present. Almost 200 per day are saved for all time, while others are archived for about one year. Also includes over 60,000 graphics, charts, and timelines.
APS Online: American Periodical Series I, II & III Digitized images of articles from over 1100 American periodicals published between 1741 and 1900.
ArchivesUSA Bibliographic records describing primary source materials in archives and manuscript repositories from throughout the United States.
Associated Press From this site, choose an AP member by location to receive the latest news.
Chicago Defender Available as part of the Black Studies Center. Currently available: full text of issues from 1935-1975.
Chicago Tribune (Historical) Searchable full-image articles and complete content from 1849 through the 1980's.
Chicago Tribune (1985-present)
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers "... search and read newspaper pages from 1900-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present." Sponsored by NEH and the Library of Congress.
Council on Foreign Relations Winner of Online Journalism Award and Kight-Batten Award for Innovations in Journalism. Read or get delivery of daily press reviews on world affairs. Includes backgrounders, timelines, and interviews with experts.
Early American Newspapers, Series I (1690-1876) Cover-to-cover “reproductions of hundreds of historic newspapers, providing more than one million pages as full text-searchable facsimile images.”
Ethnic NewsWatch Full-text articles and bibliographic information from over 200 newspapers, magazines, and journals, with interfaces both in English and in Spanish.
Factiva-domestic & international news Provides access to over 6,000 US and foreign full-text news and business publications, e.g., Bangkok Post, Concord Times (Sierra Leone), Dunya (Turkey), O Estado de Sao Paulo, Jakarta Post, The Straits Times (Singapore), Die Welt (Germany), etc. Includes reports, stock quotes, and documents such as treaties of the EU. For search help, go to the Factiva Help Page.
Global NewsBank Citations and selected full-text articles from U.S. and international news sources.
Historical Newspapers Online Indexing for early periods of The Times of London and the New York Times.
Illinois Newspaper Project Database Database of newspaper titles and holdings information at Illinois Libraries.
LexisNexis Academic Click "News" on the left.
(1) For non-English news, in "Step One: Select a news category" select "Not English language news." In "Step Two: Select a news source" select a language. Proceed to Step Three.
(2) For English language news, in "Step One" select the appropriate category.
Los Angeles Times (Today and Recent Years)
Scroll down to see LA Times. Use this link to see today's paper or articles from the last few years. For articles older than what appear in this database, go to Los Angeles Times (Historical).
Los Angeles Times (Historical) Use this link to see searchable, full-image articles from the 19th century (1881) through the 21st century (up to a few years ago; a rolling end-date). For more recent articles, see Los Angeles Times (Today and Recent Years) .
New York Times (Today and Recent Years) Scroll down to see NYT. Use this link to see today's paper or articles from the last few years. For articles older than what appear in this database, go to New York Times (Historical) .
New York Times (Historical) Use this link to see searchable, full-image articles from the 19th century (1851) through the 21st century (up to a few years ago; a rolling end-date). For more recent articles, see New York Times (Today and Recent Years) .
Newspaper Abstracts Citations and abstracts of major articles from the Chicago Tribune, Atlanta Constitution, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. Incorporates the Index to Black Newspapers.
Newspaper Source Citations, abstracts, and full-text articles from more than 150 newspapers, including complete full-text coverage of 15 international newspapers.
NPR Archives
Radical Press in the 60s Exhibit
Television News Archive (Vanderbilt University) Includes more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since 1989. See "Important Note" on front page of website (NU affiliates have free access).
U.S. News Archives on the Web
Wall Street Journal (Today and Recent Years)
Use this link to see today's paper or articles from the last few years. For articles older than what appear in this database, go to Wall Street Journal (Historical) .
Wall Street Journal (Historical) Use this link to see searchable, full-image articles from the 19th century (1889) through about the 21st century (up to a few years ago; a rolling end-date). For more recent articles, see Wall Street Journal (Today and Recent Years) .
Washington Post (Historical) Use this link to see searchable, full-image articles from the 19th century (1877) through the 21st century (up to a few years ago; a rolling end-date). For more recent articles, see Washington Post (Today and Recent Years) .
Washington Post (Today and Recent Years) Scroll down to see the Post. Use this link to see today's paper or articles from the last few years. For articles older than what appear in this database, go to Washington Post (Historical) .

International Current News & Online Historical Newspapers

17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers Searchable full-text access to the British Library’s collection of the newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817)–the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media. More than twelve hundred titles and almost one million pages are included.
Access World News Access World News from NewsBank provides articles from over 600 U.S. and over 700 international sources on local, regional and world issues. Date coverage varies with the individual newspaper; some have several years of archives.
Africa (AllAfrica) News and current events reported from all countries of Africa. Search by country, region, or topics.
AJR News Sources: Newspapers An index of both U.S. and international newspapers, which is searchable in useful ways such as by state, by country, and by type (daily, campus, major metro, etc.).
AP Images About 800 photos per day feed into this photo archive moments after moving onto the AP's spot picture system. Over 3 million U.S. and international photos, from 1826 to present. Almost 200 per day are saved for all time, while others are archived for about one year. Also includes over 60,000 graphics, charts, and timelines.
British Newspaper Index Contains indexes of The Times, The Sunday Times, Times Literary Supplement, Times Higher Education Supplement, Times Educational Supplement, the Financial Times, and the Independent.
British Universities Newsreel Database
BUND: British Universities Newsreel Database
China Core Newspapers Chinese language 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.
Council on Foreign Relations Winner of Online Journalism Award and Kight-Batten Award for Innovations in Journalism. Read or get delivery of daily press reviews on world affairs. Includes backgrounders, timelines, and interviews with experts.
EUFeeds Provides access to more than 300 papers from the European Union, updated every 20 minutes. Defaults to UK newspapers; click on flag to browse media from other EU nations. See, also, the sponsor European Journalism Centre: journalists working for journalists.
Factiva-domestic & international news Provides access to over 6,000 US and foreign full-text news and business publications, e.g., Bangkok Post, Concord Times (Sierra Leone), Dunya (Turkey), O Estado de Sao Paulo, Jakarta Post, The Straits Times (Singapore), Die Welt (Germany), etc. Includes reports, stock quotes, and documents such as treaties of the EU. For search help, go to the Factiva Help Page.
Foreign Press Sources, their Home Pages, & Auto-Translations A list from WatchingAmerica.com which includes auto-translations or English versions of foreign presses (e.g., Le Monde, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Al Messa, Diaro Decuyo).
Global NewsBank Citations and selected full-text articles from U.S. and international news sources.
Historical Newspapers Online Indexing for early periods of The Times of London and the New York Times.
International Relations and Security Network (ISN) "The ISN's news services offer security-related news stories, reference and background information, and analyses every weekday. These resources are also collected in subject-specific dossiers. "
Japan Knowledge A full-text interdisciplinary database which includes current news, and an archive of news and video recordings (1908-2005); dissertations from the humanities departments of six universities in Japan; sound and music libraries; full-text books and chronologies; dictionaries of language, biography, scientific terms, etc.; encyclopedias (e.g., the 30 vol. Nihon daihyakka zensho (Nipponica)), individuals); and more.
Latin American Newsletters (Latinnews; The Latin Intelligence Service) LAN is a premier, comprehensive intelligence service on 33 countries in Central America, Latin America and the Caribbean covering political, security, economic and strategic issues as well as general news.
LexisNexis Academic (1) For non-English news, in "Step One: Select a news category" select "Not English language news." In "Step Two: Select a news source" select a language. Proceed to Step Three. (2) For English language news, in "Step One" select the appropriate category.
If you do not find older copies of the title you seek via the methods above, check NUcat. Many archival copies of newspapers, housed in the Main library as well as the Center for Research Libraries, are listed in the catalog and will be found on microfilm.
Le Monde
Nations of the World A-Z list of all countries in the world and their official languages. Click on the country name to link to "One World - Nations Online" which provides news links, maps, statistics, current topics, and more on languages of every country of the world.
News and Newspapers Online Excellent source maintained by the University of North Carolina. Lists sites that cover regions, followed by titles listed by country, then alphabetically within regions.
Newspaper Source Citations, abstracts, and full-text articles from more than 150 newspapers, including complete full-text coverage of 15 international newspapers.
Online Newspapers from Around the World Excellent listings by the University of Michigan's Internet Public Library. Papers listed by region, by country within region, by states or provinces within country.
Opinion-Pages Search engine providing access to opinion and editorials in newspapers from all over the world.
Palmer's Index to The Times 1790-1905 Citations to articles in the The Times (London), 1790-1905.
People's Daily: Ren min ri bao Contains all issues from 1946 through 2007. To access the current issues, go toChina Core Newspapers . "... brings you the latest news dispatches of policy information and resolutions of the Chinese Government and major domestic news and international news releases from China."
Times of London Digital Archive Searchable full-image articles and complete content of the Times of London from 1785 to 1985.
Watching America: Foreign Press Accounts WatchingAmerica reflects what the world thinks of current issues that involve the U.S., by providing foreign press articles including many translated into English.
Western European News and Newspapers, Selected, Current
World Front Pages Over 500 current front pages from over 52 countries.
World News Connection (WNC) A CIA service which translates foreign press into English, and a continuation of the FBIS: Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports. Full-text and searchable from the mid 1990's to the present. Earlier dates on microfilm.
Die Zeit See, too, the digitized archive of all back issues dating from the 1940s to present.

Last updated: 06/24/08