Research Areas: News and Newspapers

A limited number of 72-hour passes are available daily for for up-to-the-moment access to nytimes.com with no limit on the number of articles viewed. This resource can also be used without restriction at the Boston Public Library.

Searchable full-page and article reproductions from the first issue on Sept 18, 1851 up until December 31st 2018.

PressReader lets you read colorful full-page reproductions of thousands of U.S. and international newspapers and magazines.

You can use PressReader in your web browser or in the iOS or Android app.

Opposing Viewpoints covers timely issues, from capital punishment to immigration to marijuana. This cross-curricular resource supports science, social studies, current events, and language arts classes. Informed, differing views help learners develop critical-thinking skills and draw their own conclusions.

InfoTrac Newsstand provides access to more than 1,100 major U.S. regional, national and local newspapers as well as leading titles from around the world.

A discontinued project by Google to scan and index historic newspapers, the Google News Archive is still available and a great resource which makes many difficult to find newspapers available freely online.

The newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) represent the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media. The present digital collection, that helps chart the development of the concept of ‘news’ and ‘newspapers’ and the “free press”, totals almost 1 million pages and contains approximately 1,270 titles.

This site allows you to search and read newspaper pages from 1900-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

Full text and indexing of the Springfield, MA newspaper. From 1988-Current.

The electronic editions of record for many Western Massachusetts Newspapers. The generosity of several Western Mass libraries and organizations has resulted in the following 10 Western newspapers from NewsBank being available to all libraries and users through the 4 Western counties: The Advocate, Amherst Bulletin, Berkshire Eagle, The, Daily Hampshire Gazette, North Adams Transcript, The Recorder, The Republican, Springfield Advocate, Springfield Examiner and the Valley Advocate.

Full-text of The New York Times from 1985 to the present as a standalone file (also included in Academic OneFile).

Global Issues in Context offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues. Each of these includes an overview, unique “perspectives” articles, reference, periodical, primary source and statistical information.