News Sources Online
Be an informed user of the news. Use accountable news sources.
How to get unlimited digital access to the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. plus links to other sources of current news.
Online databases bring together links to online news sources or provide searchable access to multiple news providers. In most cases, they provide the full text of the news sources, including some television and radio news programs.
Useful sources for current news, available online, funded by the library:
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Access World NewsCoverage: Current, from roughly the mid-1980s on. Over 2,400 newspapers and newswires, including some web-only titles. Also video from local television news programs. Some international coverage, but mainly Anglo-American titles. Includes many smaller newspapers in the U.S. Plain text and video.
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FactivaCoverage: Current. Back to 1980s for some titles. Primarily business news. Plain text. English. The News Pages section shows articles from eight major news sources (New York Times, Wall Street Journal, etc.) for the last two weeks. Access limited to 10 simultaneous users.
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Nexis UniCoverage: Roughly 1980 to date. Plain text, no graphics; transcripts only of audio and video. Numerous languages--mostly English and Western European. [formerly LexisNexis Academic]
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Library PressDisplayFull-color PDFs. Coverage: Last 90 days for most newspapers. Many languages.
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ProQuest Digitized NewspapersCoverage for all ten titles from 2008 to 3 months ago, more or less. Primarily publisher PDFs backed by full text searching of publisher's text feed. More titles to be added in the future.
To choose specific titles in PDN for cross searching, go to any ProQuest database and click on the Change databases link at the top. Then click on the plus icon next to News and Newspapers databases. You will see all the PDN titles listed there. You can click on the checkbox for cross-title searching.
Titles available as of February 2021: American Banker Recent, Barron's Recent, The Boston Globe Recent, Chicago Tribune Recent, Los Angeles Times Recent, The New York Times Recent, The Philadelphia Inquirer Recent, The Wall Street Journal Recent, The Washington Post Recent, and USA Today Recent.
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ProQuest Historical NewspapersCoverage: Baltimore Sun (1837-1995), Boston Globe (1872-1989), Chicago Tribune (1849-1997), Hartford Courant (1764-1995), Los Angeles Times (1881-2012), New York Times (1851-2017), New York Tribune / Herald Tribune (1841-1962), Wall Street Journal (1889-2003), and Washington Post (1877-2004).
African-American newspapers: Chicago Defender (1910-1975), New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993), and Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002).
International newspapers: Chinese Newspapers Collection (1832-1953), Globe and Mail [Toronto] (1844-2017), Irish Times / Weekly Irish Times [Dublin] (1859-2019), and Times of India (1838-2010). PDFs scanned from microfilm. English. Advertising content is searchable. Search a single newspaper or cross-search any combination of newspapers in this collection.