News and Commentary

Proquest National Newspapers   

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Indexes and provides the full text of national newspapers: The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, The Boston Globe, The Seattle Post, and The Atlanta Constitution/Atlanta Journal.

LexisNexis Academic   

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Provides access to the full text of thousands of national and international magazines, newspapers, wire services, TV and radio broadcast transcripts, web publications, and blogs. Search by General, News, Legal, Business, or People.

NewsBank Access World News   

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Full-text collection of selected articles from over 800 national and international newspapers, wire services, TV news transcripts, blogs and news agencies.

Alt-Press Watch   

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Full-text database of 200 selected newspapers, magazines, and journals of the alternative and independent press.

Ethnic News Watch. 1990-   

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Full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press.

Factiva  

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Provides worldwide full-text coverage of local and regional newspapers, trade publications, business newswires, media transcripts, news photos, business-rich websites, investment analyst reports, market research reports, country and regional profiles, company profiles, and historical market data from nearly 8,000 sources in 22 languages from 118 countries. Note: Number of simultaneous users is limited.

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NewsBank Access World News   

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Full-text collection of selected articles from over 800 national and international newspapers, wire services, TV news transcripts, blogs and news agencies.

Latin American Newstand (ProQuest)  

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Full-text collection of Latin American newspapers and newswires.

Newsbank Electronic Image Editions  

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Exact digital reproductions of the printed editions of selected international newspapers, with keyword searching and ability to browse the full publication. All pages, including advertising, photos and graphics are included. Includes: Al Hayat (U.K.), El Pais (Spain), International Herald Tribune (France), Le Monde (France), and Stern (Germany).

Newseum's Today's Front Pages  

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Interactive map that quickly displays the current front pages of newspapers from the U.S. and throughout the World. A selected archive preserves front pages covering important events.

Press Display  

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This resource contains the full-text and color photos and images of 225 newspapers from all over the world. Issues are kept on file for 60 days. Printing is not available for most papers

World News Connection  

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Provided by the National Technical Information Service (NTIS). Contains translations of worldwide news and commentary from foreign television and radio broadcasts, newspapers, and periodicals from July 1994 to the present. World News Connection replaces Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS). For earlier FBIS Daily Reports, consult the Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports database (digitized, full text) or use the FBIS Index to the microfiche content. Microfiche are located on the first floor in Government Documents and Microforms.

New York Times Historical   

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Complete, full-text archive of the New York Times, from its first issue on September 18, 1851, through 2005, with coverage of national and international news. Includes coverage of key events in US history such as the Civil War, the attack on Pearl Harbor and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. NOTE: The newspaper was titled the New York Daily Times from 1851-1857. In 1857, its name was changed to the New York Times.

Ref A121.N44 1851- .

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Washington Post Historical   

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Complete, full-text archive of the Washington Post, from its first issue on December 6, 1877 through 1993.

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Wall Street Journal Historical   

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Complete, full text archive of the Wall Street Journal from its first issue on July 8, 1889 through 1991. The Wall Street Journal is the financial newspaper of record. It offers in-depth coverage of national and international finance as well as first rate coverage of hard news.

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Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003  

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Fully searchable complete facsimile edition of The Economist from 1843 to 2003. Includes full-color images, multiple search indexes, topic and area supplements and surveys, a gallery of front covers and a selection of exportable financial tables.

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers  

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Includes a newspaper title directory (1690 - present) and searchable digitized images of selected local and regional newspapers (1880- 1922).

American Periodicals Series Online (1740 to 1940)   

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Digital images of historically significant American periodicals from 1740 to 1900, including literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and popular magazines. All typography, drawings, graphic elements, and article layouts appear exactly as originally published. Allows searching by article type (e.g., letter, obituary, poetry, recipe, ad, editorial cartoon, review).

Niles' Register: Cumulative Index 1811-1849   

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Indexes articles that appeared in the Niles publications: The Weekly Register, Niles' Weekly Register, and Niles' National Register. Published in Baltimore, Washington, and Philadelphia, with national readership, the Register was an influential, widely-read newsweekly. Citations are for the volume and page, which is on microfilm in Lauinger Library.

Times Digital Archive  

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Searchable, electronic version of The Times, Britain's newspaper of record, essential for primary source research in British history, politics, and culture. Provides a complete full-text and full-image archive of The Times from 1785 to 1985.

Wikipedia's List of Online Newspaper Archives  

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AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive  

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Online collection of photographs, sound bites, and graphics. Covers over 160 years of history, including over 1 million photos dating back to 1826, thousands of graphics, and audio files dating from the 1920's. News story images date from 1997. Intended for use in research papers, theses, reports, and PowerPoint presentations. Has simple keyword searching as well as complex searching such as concept, color or category.

Vanderbilt Television News Archive  

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The core collection includes evening news broadcasts from ABC, CBS and NBC (since 1968), an hour per day of CNN (since 1995) and Fox News (since 2004). Special news broadcasts include political conventions, presidential speeches and press conferences, Watergate hearings, coverage of the Persian Gulf War, the events of September 11, 2001, the War in Afghanistan, and the War in Iraq. Tapes of all broadcasts are available for loan for a fee.

Opinion Archives  

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Searches opinion pieces and editorials from across the political spectrum. Full text available from The Nation, Commentary, NACLA, and The New Republic. Also indexes American Spectator, Commonweal, Harper's Magazine, The National Review, and The New York Review of Books.

ProCon.org  

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Presents arguments and opinions on a range of current issues. Topics are divided into subtopics, each with its own set of questions, with brief pro/con or yes/no responses from opposing sides of the issue. A good starting point for getting background on a controversial topic.

Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature   

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Index to the most popular general-interest magazines and journals published in the United States. For 1890 to 1982, use the Readers' Guide Retrospective.

Ref AI3.R48 and AI3.R496 1890-1996