Finding News Articles
- Access World NewsSubscription.
Coverage: Current, from roughly the mid-1980s on. Over 2,700 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. - FactivaSubscription.
Coverage: Current. Back to 1980s for some titles. Primarily business news. Plain text. English. The Newsstand section shows articles from eight major news sources (New York Times, Wall Street Journal, etc.) for the last two weeks. - Library PressDisplaySubscription.
Full-color PDFs. Coverage: Latest 90 days. Many languages. includes many magazine/non-news sources as well. - Nexis UniSubscription.
Use Search the News--Advanced Search. Coverage: Roughly 1980 to date. Plain text, no graphics; transcripts only of audio and video. Numerous languages--mostly English and Western European. - ProQuest Digitized Newspapers [PQDN] / ProQuest Recent NewspapersSubscription.
Ten major newspaper titles are linked from the ProQuest Digitized Newspapers home page.
Ten more U.S. titles are part of the Recent Newspapers US Stand-alone collection. These titles are only accessible by browsing the News & Newspapers databases list under change Databases in the ProQuest interface.
Five additional multi-title Regional Collections covering 41 newspapers are cataloged as ProQuest Recent Newspapers: Regional Collections.
Coverage for all titles starts from either 1/1/2008, 1/1/2009, 1/1/2010, 1/1/2011, or 1/1/2012 with a three-month embargo on full text. (Some indexing of more recent articles is online is available in selected RNP titles). Full text is primarily publisher PDFs backed by full text searching of OCRed text. Newer dates have direct searching of publisher's text feed.
For a full list of online news sources see News Databases: Online News Sources.