LibGuides: Newspapers Guide: Newspapers in Databases

Newspapers in Databases

All-Newspaper Databases
Databases with Newspapers and other media

The most variety of news sources:

Newspaper Source Plus
News content from newspapers, newswires, magazines, and radio and television transcripts.
Nexis Uni
News articles plus business, legal, medical, company, and reference information. Some full-text.
InfoTrac Newsstand
Full-text of more than 2,300 major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers, as well as world publications. Plus images and radio/TV broadcasts and transcripts.

News sources with a particular focus:

Alt-PressWatch
Full-text collection of alternative and independent presses; regional and metropolitan perspectives on local to international issues.
Wall Street Journal (1984 - Current)
Wall Street Journal access from 1984 to the present (some full text). Plus indexed articles from 31 national newspapers (most coverage starts in early 90's).
International Newsstream
Recent news content outside the US and Canada, plus decades of archives.
Web News
Near real-time access to top news feeds from around the globe across a range of business and general news topics.

These databases include news sources among other types of sources. Not an exhaustive list.

Proquest Central
Multidisciplinary, mostly full-text database of newspaper, scholarly, and trade articles.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context
Covers hot social issues with custom overview articles and selected news, scholarly, op-ed, web, and reference articles plus audio and video.

Google News

If you start in the Google News interface:

If you switched to "News" from the main Google page:

If the limiters do not automatically appear, click "Tools" to have the option to set date, relevancy, etc.

Google News
Note the Pros and Cons above

Freely available online (no clicks into a library database)
Easy to use

Cons

Cannot access priced content
- Often asked to pay to read entire article
- In Fall of 2019, follow the story of Google refusing to pay for news previews in Europe
Secret algorithms routinely skew biased in some form
- Ranked syndicated content (can be biased towards owner) over original
- Promoted Climate Change denials
- The good news is that when called out on these issues, Google usually changes for the better

This is why it is important to STOP (from SIFT) and not click the first link but instead look at the first few pages and note the origin of the results (do you see major news outlets? Newspapers, such as The Guardian, or news sites, such as NBC? Do you see silly names, such as Bustle? Foreign news? Local news? Snopes?).