News Sources Online
Be an informed user of the news. Use accountable news sources.
How to access 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:
- Access World NewsCoverage and format: Current, from roughly the mid-1980s on (start dates vary widely). Over 7,000 newspapers and newswires, including some web-only titles. Mainly plain text and some video, but 100+ titles now available in color PDFs.
- FactivaCoverage: Current. Back to 1980s for some titles. Primarily business news. Plain text. English.
Access funded by the Library.
Scroll down to view The Newsstand: US section on the Factiva home page. Use sources in this column to browse the last two weeks of the following news sources—every article, plain text (no graphics)—The New York Times, Wall Street Journal (U.S. edition), and Washington Post from the print editions.
Access limited to 10 simultaneous users. - Library PressDisplayFull-color PDFs. Coverage: Last 90 days for most newspapers. Many languages.
- ProQuest Digitized NewspapersCoverage for thirty-one titles from 2008 to a few days ago, more or less, plus five regionsal collections of an additional forty-one titles. 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.
English-language U.S. newspaper titles. - ProQuest Historical NewspapersCoverage:
U.S. newspaper titles:
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (1868-1984), Baltimore Sun (1837-1998), Boston Globe (1872-2007), Chicago Tribune (1849-2015), Hartford Courant (1764-1998), Los Angeles Times (1881-2015), New York Times (1851-2020), New York Tribune / Herald Tribune (1841-1962), Wall Street Journal (1889-2012), and Washington Post (1877-2008).
African-American newspapers:
Chicago Defender (1910-2010, New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993), and the Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2010).
International newspapers:
ABC [Madrid] (1903-2010), Chinese Newspapers Collection (1832-1953), Globe and Mail [Toronto] (1844-2019), Hindustan Times (1924-2000), Irish Times / Weekly Irish Times [Dublin] (1859-2020), Le Monde (1944-2000), Montreal Gazette (1785-2010), 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.