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

• 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 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.
• Chicago Defender (1905-1975)
• 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.
• Historical Newspapers Online - Indexes the Times of London.
• Informe - Contains the full text of popular magazines, academic journals and selected newspaper articles in Spanish.
• 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.
• 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.]
• 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.
• Regional Business News - A collection of business journals, newspapers and news wires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the U.S.
• 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.