Newspapers Online
Frequently Used Newspapers:
- Boston Globe, 1987 to current. Also backfile, 1980- 1996.
- Chronicle of Higher Education, news, information, and jobs at colleges and universities. Online coverage begins in 1995 and includes the most recently published issue.
- Daily Hampshire
Gazette -- password to access earlier issues available at Frost Reference Desk; and Springfield Republican (1988-- )
- Los Angeles Times (1881-1984, also with one year's content added every year); 1985 onwards available through LexisNexis.
- New
York Times (1980 to date, via LexisNexis) and New
York Times backfile (1851 to approximately 3 years from current
date)
- Wall Street Journal (Fulltext from 1982 to current date.)
- Washington Post (from 1877 to 1988, with one year's content added every year); other years available through LexisNexis.
Collections of Newspapers:
LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe Fulltext of many U.S. and international newspapers.
African American Newspapers Full text of Freedom’s journal, March 16, 1827 - March 28 1829; The Colored American (Weekly Advocate), January 7, 1837 - December 25, 1841; The North Star, December 3, 1847 - April 17, 1851; The National Era, January 7, 1847 - March 12, 1860; Provincial Freeman, 1854-1857; Frederick Douglass Paper, 1851-1859 (completed through December 1855); The Christian Recorder, 1861-1902 (completed through Dec. 1877).
AllAfrica.com Content from newspapers, news agencies and publications (over 100 media organizations) from the African continent. Government and opposition-controlled papers are included,as well as the growing number of independent, professional news publications across the continent. AllAfrica also publishes original reporting by their own editorial team.
Alt Press Watch Full text database of about 90 newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press, from 1995 to present.
America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1900 (Early American Newspapers, Series 1 and 2)
Ethnic NewsWatch Full text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Free text searching and complete indexing of articles, columns and reviews. English and Spanish searching option available.
FBIS (Foreign Broadcast Information Service) Daily Reports, 1974-1996. News in translation (by the CIA) from radio, television, and newspapers around the world, continued by World News Connection.
Google News Great current news index (past 30 days) from Google... over 4,000 news sources, updated continuously throughout the day.
Latinnews Daily Service Daily news from Latin America translated and with analysis.
LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe Fulltext of many U.S. and non U.S. newspapers.
NewsLink a comprehensive listing of newspapers from around the world, and News Archives on the Web Listing of newspapers with backfiles available.
Newspaper Abstracts Indexes "significant" items from over 50 U.S. national and regional newspapers including the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and New York Times. Includes news, reviews, editorials and cartoons. Not full text, but concise abstracts. From 1989 to current.
Proquest Newspapers 15 current newspapers, mostly from New England, includes Boston Globe.
SALDRU Archival news clippings from Southern Africa (1975-2000) digitized as .pdf files. There are over 1 million clippings, arranged into broad subject areas. The original clippings are now housed in the Liberation Archives at the University of Fort Hare.World News Connection fulltext news in translation from around the world. Includes newspapers, radio and television broadcasts. From 1994 to current.
Television & Radio
Vanderbilt Television News Archive You must register to search, but it's free to do so. We can then borrow videos of the news shows you want through Interlibrary Loan (AC students and faculty). Note: Online video from this database requires RealPlayer, downloadable free from www.real.com.
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