News and Newspaper Resources : Current and Historical

Digital News Databases.  These are proprietary database provided through Richardson Library by subscription to ProQuest.

Historical Newspapers include proprietary sources  like ProQuest Historical Newspapers, and several free online collections like the Google News Paper Archive and Chronicling America through the Library of Congress.

U. S. Major Dailies (via Proquest) provides access to the five most respected U.S. national and regional newspapers: The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and the Wall Street Journal.

U.S. Newsstream (1980 - current) (via Proquest) U.S. Newsstream enables users to search the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring top newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format.

International Newsstream (via Proquest) International Newsstream provides the most recent news content outside of the US and Canada, with archives which stretch back decades featuring newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-text format.

Global Breaking Newswires (via Proquest) Global Breaking Newswires is a library news product which provides timely access to the best newswire content available globally as well as growing archive of news that may not be captured in any of the traditional print sources.

Canadian Newsstream (via Proquest) This database offers unparalleled access to the full text of over 190 Canadian newspapers from Canada's leading publishers. This full text database includes the complete available electronic backfile for most newspapers, providing full access to the articles, columns, editorials and features published in each. Some backfiles date as far back as the late 1970s.

• The Baltimore Afro-American‎ (1893 - 1988), via ProQuest Historical Newspapers (login required)
• The Baltimore Sun‎ (1837 - 1994), via ProQuest Historical Newspapers (login required)   
• The New York Times with Index‎ (1851 - 2016), via ProQuest Historical Newspapers (login required)
• The Wall Street Journal‎ (1889 - 2002), via ProQuest Historical Newspapers (login required)
• The Washington Post‎  (1877 - 2003), via ProQuest Historical Newspapers (login required)
• Google Newspaper Archives (several hundred newspapers, from 18th-21st centuries)
• Chronicling America, via the Library of Congress (Several hundred newspapers from 1789 - 1963, in a variety of languages) This resource also serves as a directory of newspapers printed from 1690 - present.
• Elephind a meta-search site that searches nearly three dozen online historical newspaper collections for free.
• Wikipedia Index to digital historical newspaper archives.
• Pennsylvania Newspaper Archive 1789 - 2010
• Virginia Chronicle 1787-2019

• International Coalition on Newspapers (ICON) is a meta-search site that provides search and access features to numerous free and proprietary historical digital newspaper sites world-wide.

• Europeana (Via European Union CIP) provides search and access feature to historical newspapers in Europe.

• Trove provides search and access features for historical newspapers in Australia.

• Middle Eastern and North African Newspapers [Arabic, French, English] (via Center for Research Libraries Global Press Archive) 

The Middle Eastern & North African Newspapers collection includes publications from across the Arab world issued 1870-2018, providing unique insights into the history of individual countries, as well as broad viewpoints on key historic events from the late nineteenth century to the present. Researchers will find a wealth of unique content from the Middle East and North Africa, much of which has never been digitized or available as open access material. Key topics include the decline of colonialism, the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the Suez Crisis, the Cold War, the rise of the petroleum industry, twentieth-century pan-Arab movements, both World Wars, the establishment of the state of Israel, the Iran-Iraq War, and the recent Arab Spring.

Open Access to this collection is made possible through the generous support of the Center for Research Libraries and its member institutions.

• Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese Newspapers [in Chinese] (via Center for Research Libraries Global Press Archive) 

The Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese Newspapers collection provides perspectives on the terminal imperial and early republican periods in Chinese history (1912-1949), and provides access to the press of more than twenty mainland. The collection provides researchers a richly comprehensive perspective on Chinese life, culture, and politics spanning a half century from the collapse of the Qing Dynasty, the years of provisional government and civil war, and the foundation of the People’s Republic.

Open Access to this collection is made possible through the generous support of the Center for Research Libraries and its member institutions.

• Independent and Revolutionary Mexican Newspapers [In Spanish] (via Center for Research Libraries Global Press Archive) 

Over 1,000 titles in the Independent and Revolutionary Mexican Newspapers collection trace the evolution of Mexico from 1807-1929. The newspapers in this collection provide rare documentation of the events of this era and including coverage of Mexican partisan politics, yellow press, political and social satire, as well as local, regional, national and international news.  Many of the newspapers in this collection were short-lived and available only in very short runs, but the titles are often unique and, in many cases, represent the only existing record of a newspaper’s  publication.

Open Access to this collection is made possible through the generous support of the Center for Research Libraries and its member institutions.

• Imperial Russian Newspapers [In Russian] (via Center for Research Libraries Global Press Archive) 

The Imperial Russian Newspapers collection chronicles 136  years of Russian history from 1782 to 1918 and contains 19 titles primarily from Moscow and St. Petersburg, together with several regional newspapers.

Additional reference resources include two bibliographic collections of all known newspapers published in Imperial Russia and dozens of contemporaneous (mostly nineteenth century) reference works offering detailed subject bibliographies of the articles appearing in the specific newspapers of the Imperial Russian Newspapers collection.

The Imperial Russian Newspapers collection was made possible thanks to the active support of the National Library of Russia. Open Access to this collection is made possible through the generous support of the Center for Research Libraries and its member institutions.