Newspapers
Newspapers Librarian: David Lonergan
Founders Memorial 138
815-753-9866
nemo@niu.edu
- Accessible Archives - - Full-text of Godey's Ladys Book (1830-1880), The Pennsylvania Gazette (1728-1880), The Civil War: Newspaper Perspective (1861-1865), African American Newspapers: the 19th century. Full Text.
- Chicago Defender - - Robert Sengstacke Abbott founded the Defender in May 1905 and by the outbreak of the First World War it had become the most widely-read black newspaper in the country, with more than two thirds of its readership based outside Chicago. When Abbott died in 1940, his nephew John Sengstacke became editor and publisher of the Defender, which began publishing on a daily basis in 1956. Coverage 1910-1975.
- Chicago Tribune - - This database gives access to a full-text backfile (excepting paid advertising) of the Chicago Tribune from 1985 to the current issue, Keyword searching can be free text or customized and limited to the previous three months, six months, or one year in addition to total holdings.
- Chicago Tribune (Historical) - - This database offers full-text and full-image articles for newspapers dating back to the 19th century. For most titles, the collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue--cover to cover--in downloadable PDF® files. When the project is complete the coverage will span from 1849 to 2001.
- Historic Newspaper: Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online (1841-1902) - - This digitization project was undertaken by the Brooklyn Public Library. The sixty year newspaper record attests to the growth and expansion of Brooklyn as a vital hub to New York.
- LexisNexis Academic - - A subdivision of the Lexis-Nexis database, Academic Universe offers a news database which covers the full-text of today's news or allow searches back more than 20 years. The business database offers full-text company news and financial information. The legal database allows searches of full-text federal, state, and international legal materials, including cases. The medical database offers full-text and abstracted medical and health information, and the reference database allows searching of general reference sources. Some Full Text.
- London Times Digital Archive - - This database presents online access to one of the most highly regarded resources for the study of the 19th and 20th-century history and culture. The database includes the complete pages of every issue of the London Times from 1785 to 1985 forming a complete chronicle of the period.
- New York Times (Historical) - - This database offers full-text and full-image articles for newspapers dating back to the 19th century. For most titles, the collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue--cover to cover--in downloadable PDF® files. Coverage spans 1851 to 2001.
- Newspaper Source - - Provides full text for 159 regional U.S. newspapers, eighteen international newspapers, six newswires, and nine newspaper columns, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Los Angeles Times (for a total of 194 full text newspapers and other sources). Newspaper Source is part of the Ebsco family of databases.
- Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive - - The TLS is one of the premier contemporary literary reviews.
This mirror to the cultural history of our century - fully indexed with most of the original contributors now revealed for the first time - delivers unparalleled research information to scholars, students and librarians. Coverage is 1902 to 1990.
- Book Review Index Plus - - The database offers a comprehensive guide to book reviews that includes more than 5 million review citations from thousands of publications. Coverage is 1965 to the present.
- Chicago Manual of Style Online, 15th edition - - This new edition of the venerable guide to the preparation of manuscripts, articles, and papers has been thoroughly overhauled and updated to reflect the new realities of digital texts and electronic publishing.
- Chronicle of Higher Education - - The Chronicle provides well-researched and thoughtful analyses of current issues in higher education.
- ebrary Academic Complete - - This electronic book package includes more than 24,000 individual texts covering a broad array of academic disciplines. The database boasts a distinguished set of publishers including such university presses as Oxford, Cambridge, Princeton, Harvard, etc. The content of the database is well paired with an advanced set of tools that allows for expansive searching capabilities, and manipulation and storage of text.
Web Resources
Newspaper directories
- African Journals Online
- A database currently featuring 271 scholarly journals published in Africa, in a variety of disciplines. Abstracts are available for all articles.
- Internet Public Library: Newspapers
- Arranged geographically by continent, region, country, and state.
- ABYZNewsLinks
- Arranged by continent, region, and country. "Hotspots" provides links to pressing news stories.
- Daily Earth
- Links to major market papers in the U.S. and international papers by country.
- FiftyStates
- Links to over 3300 newspapers arranged by state.
- NewsDirectory
- Arranged by continent and country.
- NewsVoyager
- Search for U.S. daily and weekly, Canadian, international and college newspapers. Search by state or city/town.
- Paperboy
- Search nearly 6000 newspapers by name, city, country/state, or headline keyword.
- RefDesk.com--newspapers
- Links to current day's news in U.S. and international newspapers arranged geographically.
- News Archives on the Web
- Layout arranged by state, city, paper name (linked), archive site (linked), dates of coverage, and cost (including if free).
- WorldNewsPapers
- Searchable U.S. and international newspapers arranged geographically.
Other links
- 1stHeadlines
- Current daily headlines from major English newspapers worldwide, including wire services and cable news networks.
- Daypop
- Search 59,000 news sites, weblogs, and RSS feeds for current events and breaking news.
- Today's Front Pages
- More than 300 front pages of newspapers from 40 or more countries
