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CURRENT U.S. - Multiple News Sources

Current news stories from U.S. newspapers, news magazines, news broadcasts, and other news sources.

Factiva This link opens in a new window
Format: Online database. Updated: Daily.
Contains more than 28,000 sources from over 200 countries in 23 languages. Includes Wall Street Journal television transcripts and newswires.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Format: Online database. Updated: Daily.
An excellent source of up-to-date news, business and legal information. News stories date back to the late 1970s.
ProQuest Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Searches several Newsstream databases containing US, Canadian, and international newspapers from the 1980s to the present. Full-text articles from over 1,200 newspapers worldwide, including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Washington Post, Guardian, El Norte, Jerusalem Post, and South China Morning Post. Also includes 85 newspapers from the company Gannett.
Updated daily.
Alternative Press Index and Archive This link opens in a new window
Format: Online database.
Access limited to 5 concurrent users.
An index of articles from more than 300 alternative, left and radical newspapers and periodicals.

Google News (free resource)
Links to news headlines and stories from around the world.

PressReader This link opens in a new window
Format: Online database. Updated: Daily.
Most recent 2 months of over 400 U.S. and international newspapers, many in foreign languages. All newspapers are in their entirety and are available on the day they are published.
Vanderbilt Television News Archive This link opens in a new window
Format: Online database.
An extensive archive of television news broadcasts. NBC broadcasts from 1968 and CNN broadcasts from 1995 are available online. ABC and CBS broadcasts from 1968 and Fox News broadcasts from 2004 are available through video loan, for which Vanderbilt University charges a fee to recover costs.

US Newspaper List (free resource)
Links to current U.S. newspaper Web sites.

HISTORICAL U.S. - Multiple News Sources

U.S. news sources that do not have the latest news.

African American Newspapers (1827-1998) This link opens in a new window
Covers 270 newspapers from every region of the United States, including 7 from Washington DC.
African American Newspapers: The 19th Century This link opens in a new window
Full text access to seven 19th century African American newspapers.

Black Newspapers, Sample Issues, 1846-1966
Format: MICROFILM. 1846-1966.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (Library of Congress) (free resource)
Digitized images of selective issues of U.S. newspapers from 1860 to 1922. Also provides holdings information about the Library of Congress' collections of U.S. newspapers.

Early American Newspapers, Series I, 1690-1876 This link opens in a new window
Contains full-page images of nearly 500 historic colonial and U.S. newspapers, based on the collection of the American Antiquarian Society.
John R. Hickman Collection This link opens in a new window
The John R. Hickman Collection consists of more than 10,000 broadcast quality audio recordings of vintage radio news and entertainment programs, from the 1920s through the 1970s.

Individual U.S. News Sources (ProQuest)

To save time one can search the following ProQuest databases simultaneously. Directions: Click on one of these databases; click on "News & Newspapers" on the right-hand column; and then select the appropriate databases.

Atlanta Constitution - Historical This link opens in a new window
Format: Online database. 1868-1942. Updated: Annually.
A digitized version of the complete Atlanta Constitution newspaper. Every year three additional years of content will be added.
Baltimore Sun - Historical This link opens in a new window
Format: Online database. 1837-1985. Updated: Annually.
A digitized version of the complete Baltimore Sun newspaper.
More recent articles are available online from the database Factiva (9/1/1990 to present).
This resource was made possible through the Class of '32 Library Fund.
Chicago Defender (1910-2010) This link opens in a new window
Format: Online database. 1910-1975. Updated: None.
A digitized version of a leading African American newspaper, with more than two-thirds of its readership outside Chicago. This database contains the complete run of the Chicago Defender from 1910 to 1975.
Chicago Tribune - Historical This link opens in a new window
Format: Online database. 1849-1986. Updated: Annually.
A digitized version of the complete Chicago Tribune newspaper.
Los Angeles Times - Historical This link opens in a new window
Format: Online database. 1881 to 1986. Updated: Annually.
The digitized version of the complete L.A. Times newspaper. Full-text articles are available online from the database LexisNexis Academic (most recent 6 months).
AU Library also has it in MICROFILM and PRINT formats (1970 to present).
New York Times - Historical This link opens in a new window
Format: Online database. 1851 to 2006. Updated: Annually.
A digitized version of the complete New York Times newspaper. Full-text articles are available online from the databases Factiva (6/1/1980 to present) and LexisNexis Academic (6/1/1980 to present).
AU Library also has it in MICROFILM and PRINT formats (1851 to present).
Wall Street Journal - Historical This link opens in a new window
Format: Online database. 1889-1993. Updated: Annually.
A digitized version of the complete Wall Street Journal newspaper. Full-text articles are available online from the database Factiva (6/13/1979 to present).
AU Library also has it in MICROFILM and PRINT formats (1955 to present).
Washington Post - Historical This link opens in a new window
Format: Online database. 1877-1993. Updated: Annually.
A digitized version of the complete Washington Post newspaper. Full-text articles are available online from the databases Factiva (1984 to present) and LexisNexis Academic (1977 to present).
AU Library also has it in MICROFILM and PRINT formats (1930 to present).

Individual U.S. News Sources

Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1841-1902 (free resource)
Digitized images of the major Brooklyn, N.Y. newspaper, which was published from 1841 to 1955 and was revived for a short time from 1960 to 1963. Half the years of the newspaper has been digitized.
Christian Science Monitor
Format: MICROFILM and Print. 1960 to present.
Complete version of the newspaper. Full-text articles are available online from the database Factiva (1988 to present).
Chronicle of Higher Education
Format: MICROFILM and Print. 1966 to present.
The print weekly publication of news, opinions, statistics and job listing in higher education. Full-text articles are available online from 1988 to present

Chronicle of Higher Education This link opens in a new window
Format: Web site. 5/21/2010 to present. Updated: Daily.
News, opinions, statistics, and job listings in higher education. Online version of the print weekly publication. Full-text articles are available online from the database ProQuest Research Library (1986 to 30 days ago).
Climate Extra This link opens in a new window
News and analysis covering climate policy developments in U.S. federal and state governments.
Previously InsideEPA/climate, Clean Energy Report, and Carbon Control News.
Includes access to general news available on the InsideEPA.com homepage.
Eagle, The (American University) This link opens in a new window
Format: Online database. 1925-2004.
A complete digitized copy of American University's undergraduate student newspaper, The Eagle.
HarpWeek This link opens in a new window
An interactive database of Harper's Weekly magazine from the Civil War Era through the Gilded Age.
Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1815 This link opens in a new window
Format: Online database. 1728-1800.
Transcribed text of the Pennsylvania Gazette, a prominent early American newspaper.

Time Magazine - Archive (free resource)
1923 to present.
Times Educational Supplement
Format: MICROFILM and Print. 1970 to present.
Weekly publication covering primary, secondary and higher education in Britain. Full-text articles are available online from the database Factiva (1997 to present).
Virginia Gazette (free resource)
Formats: Online and Microfilm. 1736-1780. Updated: None.
Weekly newspaper published in Williamsburg, VA.
AU Library has a copy of this newspaper in microfilm.
Washington Star
Format: MICROFILM. 1970-Aug. 1981. Updated: None.
Main newspaper of Washington D.C. prior to the 1970s.

CURRENT INTERNATIONAL - Multiple News Sources

Current news stories from non-U.S. newspapers, news magazines, news broadcasts, and other news sources.

Factiva This link opens in a new window
Format: Online database. Updated: Daily.
Contains more than 28,000 sources from over 200 countries in 23 languages. Includes Wall Street Journal television transcripts and newswires.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Format: Online database. Updated: Daily.
An excellent source of up-to-date news, business and legal information. News stories date back to the late 1970s.
Access World News Research Collection This link opens in a new window
The electronic editions of record for local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers as well as full-text content of key international sources. Over 4,500 news sources are included. Each provides unique coverage of local and regional news, including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community. Paid ads are excluded.
ProQuest Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Searches several Newsstream databases containing US, Canadian, and international newspapers from the 1980s to the present. Full-text articles from over 1,200 newspapers worldwide, including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Washington Post, Guardian, El Norte, Jerusalem Post, and South China Morning Post. Also includes 85 newspapers from the company Gannett.
Updated daily.
PressReader This link opens in a new window
Format: Online database. Updated: Daily.
Most recent 2 months of over 400 U.S. and international newspapers, many in foreign languages. All newspapers are in their entirety and are available on the day they are published.
Latin American Intelligence Service This link opens in a new window
Political, economic, security and strategic news and analysis on countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Includes the Latin American Weekly Report (1967 to present), the Latin American Regional Reports, and other reports. Some of the publications are also available in Spanish.
Alternative Press Index and Archive This link opens in a new window
Alternative Press Index is an index of articles from more than 300 alternative, left and radical newspapers and periodicals from 1991 to present. Born of the New Left, it was launched in 1969 to provide access to the emerging theories and practices of radical social change.
The Alternative Press Index Archive (APIA) is a bibliographic database of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from over 700 international alternative, radical, and left periodicals that cover the period of 1969 through 1990.
To limit search to only one of the collections, once on the EBSCO search screen, click on the link above the search box to "Choose Databases", then deselect the other collection.
**Access limited to 5 concurrent users.**
Canadian Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Canadian Newsstream offers unparalleled access to over 190 Canadian newspapers from Canada's leading publishers providing full-text access to articles, columns and features as far back as the late 1970s.
e-Korean Studies This link opens in a new window
Korean studies collection comprised of 8 databases in English and Korean. Offerings cover all academic disciplines, including arts and humanities, social sciences, sciences, medical sciences, and physical education. E-books, e-journals, dissertations, classical literature, video lectures, and newspapers are included. North Korean academic journals are also available.
This resource was made possible through a grant from the Korean Foundation.

IRIN: Integrated Regional Information Networks (free resource)
News reports from 1995 to present.
Humanitarian news and analysis in English, French and Arabic covering the parts of the world often under-reported, misunderstood or ignored. One can set up email alerts. IRIN is an editorially independent, non-profit project of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
The Media Line (free resource)
Some of the articles are free. The Media Line is a non-profit news organization established to enhance and balance media coverage in the Middle East, promote independent reporting in the region, and break down barriers to understanding in the Arab and Israeli journalism communities.
Online Newspaper Directory for the World (free resource)
Links to the websites of thousands of newspapers in the world. Organized by regions and countries.
Google News (free resource)
Links to news headlines and stories from around the world.

HISTORICAL INTERNATIONAL - Multiple News Sources

Non-U.S. news sources that do not have the latest news.

Current Digest of the Soviet and Russian Press This link opens in a new window
Format: Online database. 1949 to 2010. Updated: None.
English translations of news articles published in the Soviet Union and Russia from 1949 to 2010. Includes translations of Soviet government documents, laws and treaties, five-year plans and reports of their implementation, as well as speeches by leaders. Online version of the print Current Digest of the Soviet Press and... Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press.

Selections from China Mainland Magazines
Format: MICROFILM. Coverage: 1955-1997.
English translation of magazines from the People's Republic of China. Produced by the American Consulate General, Hong Kong. There is an index in the last reels of the microfilm set.
Survey of China Mainland Press
Format: MICROFILM. Coverage: Oct. 1950-Sept. 1977
English translation of news items from the New China News Agency, the official Chinese Communist news agency in Beijing. Produced by the American Consulate General, Hong Kong. There is an index in the last reels of the microfilm set.

Individual News Sources - from Americas

Cornwall Chronicle (Jamaica) 1776-1794
Format: MICROFILM. Coverage: 1776-1794. Updated: None.
Newspaper from the Cornwall County in Jamaica.

Individual News Sources - from Asia

Jerusalem Post
The complete version of the important English-language daily newspaper in Israel. Full-text articles are available online from the database ProQuest Central (10/21/1988 to present), and Nexis Uni (1989 to present). Complete issues from the most recent 60 days are available online in the database PressReader.
Times of Ceylon
Format: MICROFILM. (Held at WRLC Storage, available for delivery.)
Coverage: October 1959 to May 2967.
Times of India
Format: MICROFILM. 1960-2006.
English language newspaper from New Delhi, India. Full-text articles are available online from the databases ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Times of India (1838-2010), ProQuest Central (2006 to present), Factiva (5/9/1986 to present) and Nexis Uni (2010 to present). Complete issues from the most recent 60 days are available online in the database PressReader

Individual News Sources - from Europe

BBC (free resource)
Includes the BBC World Service which includes has news in 32 languages.

Economist.com This link opens in a new window
Authoritative weekly newspaper focusing on international politics and business news and opinion.
Economist Historical Archive 1843-2020 This link opens in a new window
Format: Online database. 1843 to 2006. Updated: Annually.
Digitized version of the complete British weekly news magazine from inception. The Economic Financial indicator tables from May 1983 to December 2003 are available for exporting into a spreadsheet format. AU Library also has it in MICROFILM, MICROFICHE and PRINT formats (1843 to present).
Financial Times Historical Archive 1888-2016 This link opens in a new window
Format: Online database. 1886-2006. Updated: Annually.
Digitized version of the complete London edition of one of the world's major business daily newspaper.
Full-text articles are available online from the databases Factiva (1981-present) and LexisNexis Academic (1982-present).
AU Library also has it in MICROFILM and PRINT formats (1975 to present).

Izvestiia
Format: MICROFILM. 1960 to present.
Complete version of the Russian-language daily newspaper. From 1917 to 1991, it was the official newspaper of the Soviet government. Available online in Factiva (June 1996 to present)
Le Monde
Format: MICROFILM. 1944 to present.
Complete version of the major French-language newspaper from Paris, France. Full-text articles are available online from the databases ProQuest Central (June 2002 to present),
Pravda
Format: MICROFILM. Coverage: 1960-Jan. 5, 1999.
Russian-language daily newspaper from Moscow, Russia. From 1912 to 1991, it was the official publication of the Soviet Communist Party. Full-text articles are available online from the database Pravda Digital Archive (1912 to 2019), and Factiva (2001 to present).
Russkii︠a︡ Vi︠e︡domosti
Format: MICROFILM. 1890, 1892-1918.
The "Russian Bulletin" is a liberal newspaper of pre-Soviet Russia. It is also spelled Russkiia Vedomosti.
Sunday Times
Format: MICROFILM. 1972 to present.
Weekly newspaper from London, U.K. Full-text articles are available online from the databases ProQuest Central (July 2018 to present), Nexis Uni (August 1998 to November 2016), and Factiva (August 2001 to December 2016).
Times Educational Supplement
Format: MICROFILM and Print. 1970 to present.
The TES is a weekly publication of news, analysis, and debate covering primary, secondary and higher education in Britain. Full-text articles are available online from the database Factiva (2007 to present).

Times Digital Archive This link opens in a new window
Format: Online database. 1785-1985. Updated: None.
The complete Times of London newspaper, Britain's newspaper of record. Also known as The Times or London Times. Full-text articles are available online from the databases Factiva (1/2/1981) and LexisNexis Academic (7/1/1985 to present).
AU Library also has it in MICROFILM and PRINT formats (1785 to present).

Search Tips

Boolean operators:

AND - use to narrow a search and get fewer and more relevant results.
elections and voters

OR - use to broaden a search and get more results. Good for synonyms and words with variant spellings. Add parentheses when using OR.
(latin america or argentina or colombia)
(organization or organisation)

NOT - use to narrow a search to get more relevant results
mexico not new mexico

Truncation:

Use to find words with different word endings.
e.g. immigrant* yields immigrant, immigrants
e.g. immigra* yields immigrant, immigrants, immigrate, immigration, immigrating, etc.

Truncation (or wildcard) symbols:

• Most databases use an asterisk (*).
• LexisNexis uses an exclamation mark (!).
• AU Library catalog and World News Connection use a question mark (?).
• iPolls & RoperExpress use a percentage sign (%).
• Ovid databases use dollar sign ($).

Proximity search:

Use to find words that are close to each other on a page.
It is one way to find more relevant results.

Each family of databases has its own command words.

EBSCO:
nnumber=words near another word in any order, within a certain number
fundamental* n3 islam*

Factiva:
same=words in same paragraph
sex trafficking same ngo*

nearnumber=words near another word in any order, within a certain number
president* near3 speech

HeinOnline
~number=words near each other in any order, within a certain number
"watershed planning"~10

LexisNexis:
w/number=words within a specified number of words, in any order
human rights w/2 violations

w/s=words within the same sentence
crime w/s (dc or district of columbia)

w/p=words within the same paragraph
gays w/p military

ProQuest:
near/number=words near another word in any order, within a certain number
renewable energy near/5 viable

Scopus
w/number=words near another word in any order, within a certain number

Web of Science:
Web of Knowledge:
Social Science Citation Index:
MEDLINE:
near/number=words near another word in any order, within a certain number
government near/3 fund*