News and Current Events Databases
(see also
General)
[General Papers]
[Photographs]
[Individual Papers]
[Specialized Papers]
[Online Books]
- General Newspapers:
- Lexis-Nexis
Academic Universe (Lexis-Nexis)
 
- General news.
Company news, directory,
and financial information.
Industry and market news. Government
and political news (national and
regional - including latest six months of Newsday). Country profiles, statistics, and business analysis.
Biographical information. Reference books, directories
and business reference library.
General medical and health topics;
full-text of medical journals and
newsletters.
Accounting, auditing, and tax information sources.
Legal newspapers, journals, magazines, and newsletters
from across the
country; federal case law;
U.S. Code, Constitution, and Court Rules;
state case law, constitutions, statutes,
and other legal materials.
- ProQuest
Newspapers (ProQuest)
- Use this link to search all the newspaper databases that are available from ProQuest. Search
through the individual ProQuest newspaper databases using the other links on this page.
(See Using ProQuest Databases for searching tips)
- ProQuest
Historical Newspapers (ProQuest)
- Cover to cover presentation of every issue of each newspaper, including news,
editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, birth & marriage announcements,
historical photos, stock photos, and advertisements with full-page and article images
in downloadable PDFs. Includes the Atlanta Constitution (1868-1939), Los Angeles Times
(1881-1986), New York Times (1851-2004), Wall Street Journal (1889-1990), and
Washington Post (1877-1991).
(See Using ProQuest Databases for searching tips)
- National
Newspapers (27) (ProQuest)
- This newspaper database
provides comprehensive
coverage of twenty-seven major newspapers, including The New
York Times and Washington Post,
plus other important U.S., international and
minority interest papers.
(See Using ProQuest Databases for searching tips)
- Custom
Newspapers
(InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Full text collection of 150 newspapers from the United States,
England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Australia, and South Korea, including the
latest year of the New York Times.
- National
Newspaper Index (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Indexes and abstracts of America's top five
newspapers: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The
Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post going
back to 1977. Covers current events, lifestyle, biographies,
sports, economics, consumer products, world
affairs, public health, business
trends, entertainment and travel.
- National
Newspaper Index
(InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Indexes and abstracts of America's top five
newspapers: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The
Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post.
Covers back to 1977.
- TopicSearch
(Ebsco)
- This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political and
economic issues, scientific discoveries and
other popular topics. Contains full text for over 66,000 articles from more than 2,700 diverse
sources including international and regional
newspapers, Ebsco's unparalleled periodicals collection, biographies, public opinion
polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government
information.
- Photographs:
- AP
Images (Associated Press)
- Previously AccuNet/Associated Press Multimedia Archive, this unparalleled resource for
primary source news photos from the Associated Press contains over 3.5 million
photographs from the 1840's through today, with more than 3,000 photos being
added on a daily basis. Additionally, users can search through audio files and over
80,000 graphics, including maps, timelines, logos, and graphs.
Please note that at this time, AP Images contains only photos and graphics.
Audio and Text are expected in the coming months.
- Associated
Press Photo and Multimedia Archive (AccuNet)
- Contains approximately 500,000 photos of significant news
events, political leaders, historical figures, and celebrities
on the state, regional, national, and international levels
dating back to 1840. Also includes audio clips, text, graphs, and charts.
Eight hundred new photos are added each day.
- Individual Newspapers:
- Newsday:
1985-current (ProQuest)
- Newspaper covering news and events on
Long Island and the New York City area. Covers 1985 to the present.
(See Using ProQuest Databases for searching tips)
- Atlanta
Constitution: 1868-1939 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) (ProQuest)
- Cover to cover presentation of each issue, including news,
editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, birth & marriage announcements,
historical photos, stock photos, and advertisements with full-page and article images
in downloadable PDFs. (See Using ProQuest Databases for searching tips)
- Chicago
Tribune: 1985-current (ProQuest)
- Provides reporting and analysis of regional, national
and international news.
(See Using ProQuest Databases for searching tips)
- Keesing's
World News Archives: 1931-current (Keesing's)
- Combines the full text of over 95,000 articles from
Keesing's Contemporary Archives and Keesing's Record of World Events
from 1931 to the present, adding about 150 articles per month. Drawing from a wide
range of press and other sources in a variety of languages, it provides an overview
of the political news of the world with a commitment to internationalism, accuracy,
objectivity, and permanence. Covers, with their historical context, such topics as
elections, changes of government, wars, treaties, appointments, diplomacy,
terrorism, security issues, legislation, budgets, economic developments,
international agreements, actions by the UN & other international
organizations, natural disasters, environmental issues, and scientific
discoveries.
- Los
Angeles Times: 1985-current (ProQuest)
- Major daily newspaper from Los Angeles. With the
nation's largest editorial department, it offers
extensive coverage of national, international, and
local news.
(See Using ProQuest Databases for searching tips)
- Los
Angeles Times: 1881-1986 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) (ProQuest)
- Cover to cover presentation of each issue, including news,
editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, birth & marriage announcements,
historical photos, stock photos, and advertisements with full-page and article images
in downloadable PDFs. (See Using ProQuest Databases for searching tips)
- New
York Times: 1980-current (ProQuest)
- Coverage of the US newspaper of record. Offers
superb coverage of national and international news,
plus coverage of important speeches and
documents, Supreme Court decisions and
presidential press conference transcripts.
(See Using ProQuest Databases for searching tips)
- New
York Times: 1851-2004 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) (ProQuest)
- Cover to cover presentation of each issue, including news,
editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, birth & marriage announcements,
historical photos, stock photos, and advertisements with full-page and article images
in downloadable PDFs. (See Using ProQuest Databases for searching tips)
- Wall
Street Journal: 1984-current (ProQuest)
- The financial newspaper of record offering in-depth
coverage of national and international finance as
well as first rate coverage of hard news.
(See Using ProQuest Databases for searching tips)
- Wall
Street Journal: 1889-1990 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) (ProQuest)
- Cover to cover presentation of each issue, including news,
editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, birth & marriage announcements,
historical photos, stock photos, and advertisements with full-page and article images
in downloadable PDFs. (See Using ProQuest Databases for searching tips)
- Washington
Post: 1877-1991 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) (ProQuest)
- Cover to cover presentation of each issue, including news,
editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, birth & marriage announcements,
historical photos, stock photos, and advertisements with full-page and article images
in downloadable PDFs. (See Using ProQuest Databases for searching tips)
- Specialized Newspaper Databases:
- Alternative
Press Index (FirstSearch)
- Indexes nearly 300 alternative, radical, and left
periodicals, newspapers, and magazines.
Includes selected abstracts from research
journals. International and interdisciplinary coverage of the humanities,
social sciences, anarchism, indigenous peoples, democracy, labor,
ecology, national liberation, feminism, socialism,
gay and lesbian issues. Covers 1991 to the present
- Alternative
Press Index Archive (FirstSearch)
- International and interdisciplinary coverage of alternative viewpoints
on internationally significant subjects from alternative, radical, and
left periodicals, newspapers and magazines, published from 1969-1990.
- Ethnic
NewsWatch (ProQuest)
- Is a full-text collection
of the newspapers, magazines and
journals of the ethnic, minority and native
press. A rich collection of articles,
editorials, columns, reviews, etc. provide a
broad diversity of perspectives and
viewpoints -- the other sides of the stories.
(See Using ProQuest Databases for searching tips)
- Informe
(InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- A Spanish language database that includes magazine articles,
periodicals and full-text of El Nuevo, a Florida Spanish language newspaper.
Covers 1994 to the present. [Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos
completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de
actualidad y otras materias].
- New
York State Newspapers
(InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Subset of InfoTrac Custom Newspapers containing the full text of
six major newspapers published in New York, including
the New York Observer, New York Post , New York Times,
Syracuse Herald American, Syracuse Herald-Journal, Syracuse Post-Standard,
and selected business stories from the Albany Times Union, Buffalo News, and New York Daily News.
- Regional
Business News (Ebsco)
- Provides comprehensive full text coverage
of 75 regional business journals, newspapers, and newswires from all
metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
Updated daily.
- Online Encyclopedias and Books:
- Chambers
Classic Speeches (Credo/xrefer)
- (See database page for description)
- History
Behind the Headlines: The Origins of Conflicts Worldwide (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Presents in-depth information on conflicts appearing in today's
headlines. Users are provided with historical background and analysis to
events to give a greater understanding of the politics, players, and
layers of current affairs.
- World
Press Encyclopedia (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Describes the press and electronic media systems of over 200 countries,
including the overview & background, economic framework, general characteristics,
number & type of media, press laws, censorship issues, state-press relations,
education & training in journalism, and more.
Database descriptions are adapted from each database's website.
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