How to Find Online Newspaper Resources

Most Requested Newspapers

• The Herald Sun
• The London Times
• The New York Times
• NC State Library Newspaper Project
  
• The Raleigh News & Observer
• USA Today
• The Wall Street Journal
• The Washington Post

North Carolina Community Newspapers

• North Carolina Community Newspapers
• America's Newspapers: North Carolina

Online Newspapers Worldwide

• 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers - Provides full text access to the British Library's collection of the newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817).
• 19th Century British Library Newspapers Collection - Contains full runs of newspapers specially selected to best represent nineteenth-century Britain.
• Adams Papers Digital Edition - The database comprises John Adams’s complete diaries, selected legal papers, and the ongoing series of family correspondence and state papers.
• Africa-Wide NiPAD - Provides multi-disciplinary coverage about African including politics, history, economics, business, mining, development, social issues, anthropology, natural history, literature, language, law, music and much more.
• African American Newspapers - Includes over 200 African-American newspapers, arranged by state.
• America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922 - America's Historical Newspapers allows users to search U.S. historical papers published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 states.
• America's Newspapers: North Carolina - A quick link to the NC section of America's Newspapers.
• Atlanta Constitution (1868-1939) - Offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.
• Atlanta Daily World (1932-2003)
• BBC Monitoring - Covers more than 2,000 radio, TV, press, internet and news agency sources, translating from up to 100 languages.
• Black Studies Center - Comprised of several cross-searchable component databases, including the International Index to Black Periodicals and historical black newspapers.
• British Library Newspaper Library Catalogue - Over 50,000 online newspaper and periodical titles, searchable by keyword and sorted by title, date, or place.
• British Library Online Newspaper Catalogue - Olive Software, Inc. and the British Library have collaborated to produce the world's first online archive of microfilmed historic newspapers.  The digital archive of newspaper issues containing some 500,000 articles is now open to the public.
• British Newspapers 1600-1900 - Cross-searches these databases: 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers and 19th Century British Library Newspapers.
• Canadian Newsstand Major Dailies -  This collection includes 21 national and leading regional newspapers, including: The Globe and Mail, National Post, Montreal Gazette, Ottawa Citizen, etc.
  
• Chicago Defender (1905-1975)
• Chicago Tribune (1849-1986)
• Factiva - Provides updated global information and news from major newspapers and business journals.
• Gallica Project on French Newspapers - Allows access to full text for the following French newspapers: Le Figaro and son supplement litteraire, Le Temps, La Croix, L'Humanite, La Presse, Le Journal des debats, Ouest-Eclair (editions de Rennes, Caen et Nantes).
• Global Newsbank - Archives of American newspapers and more, as well as links to current events Hot Topics.
• Guardian and The Observer - The Guardian (1821-2003) and its sister paper, The Observer (1791-2003) provide online access to facts, firsthand accounts, and opinions of the day about the most significant and fascinating political, business, sports, literary, and entertainment events from the past 200 years.
• Historical Newspapers Online - Indexes the Times of London.
• Informe - Contains the full text of popular magazines, academic journals and selected newspaper articles in Spanish.
• InfoTrac Custom Newspapers - Provides indexing and full-text articles from national and international newspapers.
• Kidon Media Link - Newspapers, periodicals and other media sources from around the world.  Every country has its own integrated page.  There are no separate pages for newspapers, magazines, television, radio and news agencies.
• Latin American Newsstand - Complete contents from over 35 full text Latin American newspaper titles in Spanish and Portuguese, with some additional content in English.  Most coverage starts with 2005, though some go back to 1995.
• Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe - Provides full text access to a wide range of U.S. and international newspapers, radio and television transcripts.  Covers general, business and legal information sources.  Lexis-Nexis is available for the Duke Community only through this link.
• Los Angeles Times, 1881-1985 - Note: This database is still being added to, you may not find materials up to 1985.
• Los Angeles Times, 1985-Present
• New York Times Book Review Archives - This is a full text archive of book reviews published in the New York Times since 1980.  It covers over 50,000 books and authors, in reviews as well as in news and interviews.  This database is listed on the Book Reviews subject list.
• News & Observer, 1991-Present; News & Observer, 2004-Present - NCLive now offers web access to full text articles from the Raleigh News & Observer through a database called InfoTrac Custom Newspapers.  The News & Observer is covered from 1991 to the present.
• Newslink - Links to U.S. and World newspapers, including a link to Campus newspapers in the U.S. [Note: Not all links are kept up to date.]
• Newspaperindex.com - Newspapers and Front Pages in all countries.
• Newspaper Source - Contains selected full text articles from over 140 regional U.S. newspapers, several international newspapers, newswires, and the Christian Science Monitor. The emphasis is business-related articles, although articles about national and international news events are also included.
• Newspapers in Taiwan - Includes 13 Chinese newspapers published in Taiwan.  Full-text from 2002-Present; index from 1950-Present.
  
• North Carolina Periodicals Index - Produced by the Joyner Library at ECU, this free database provides indexing of articles from over 40 periodicals published in NC.  Most of these periodicals are not covered by other indexes or databases.  The Triangle's "Independent Weekly" is one example.
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers - New York Times, full text, from 1851 to three years before the current date.
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Black Newspapers - Offers primary source material for the study of American history and African-American culture, history, politics, and the arts.
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Major U.S. Newspapers -  Searches ProQuest Historical Databases simultaneously for these major U.S. newspapers: Atlanta Constitution (1868-1942); Chicago Tribune (1849-1986); Los Angeles Times (1881-1986); The New York Times (1851-2006); The Wall Street Journal (1889-1992); and: The Washington Post (1877-1993).
• Regional Business News - A collection of business journals, newspapers and news wires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the U.S.
• Russian National Bibliography - allows users to digitally search the Russian Book Chamber's (Knizhnaia palata) national bibliographies for citations from books, newspapers, journals, dissertation abstracts, musical scores, and maps.
• SRDS Media Solutions - Provides advertising media rates and advertiser data through its coverage of traditional media - such as magazines, newspapers, television, direct marketing, and radio - as well as online sources.
• Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa - collection consists of more than 180,000 pages of documents and images, including periodicals, nationalist publications, records of colonial government commissions, local newspaper reports, personal papers, correspondence, UN documents, out-of-print and other particularly relevant books, oral testimonies, life histories, and speeches.
• Taiwan Nichinichi Shinpo - Keyword searching and full text of official newspaper of Taiwan during the Japanese colonial period, including both Japanese (1898.5 - 1944.3) and Chinese (1905.7 - 1911.11) editions.
  
• The Times Digital Archive, 1785-1985 - Provides full text access to The Times (London).  The full newspaper (including advertisements and illustrations) is given with full-page or specific article access, along with a facsimile (PDF) version.
• Universal Database of Central Russian Newspapers - A full-text database of over 40 newspapers from Russia, including some English-language publications. (Visual material like photos, graphs, and drawings are not included.) Accessible in English or Russian.
• Universal Databases - This interface provides a unified search engine for several of the Eastview Universal databases: Russian Central Newspapers (UDB-COM), Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press (UDB-CD), Social Sciences & Humanities (UDB-EDU), Voprosy istorii: Complete Collection (UDB-VI), and Voprosy literatury: Complete Collection (UDB-VL).
• Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals, 1800-1900 - A subject-inclusive, language-inclusive bibliography of newspapers and periodicals from Victorian England . Includes 6 alphabetical indexes: Title, Issuing body, People, Town, County, and Subject. Also included are titles in any language, published during any part of their life-span in England between January 1, 1800 and December 31, 1900.
• World Newspaper Archive - A fully searchable collection of historical newspapers from around the globe.
• Yomiuri Newspaper, 1986- - Includes full text of Yomiuri shinbun (from Sept. 1986- to the present, with local editions beginning in Dec. 1986); along with the English edition: the Daily Yomiuri (Sept. 1989- to the present), both searchable by article, keyword, subject category, and issue.