E-Resources for Newspapers & Magazines

Provides access to major African-American newspapers published in the United States during the 19th century. Publications include Freedom's Journal, The Colored American, The North Star, The National Era, Provincial Freeman, Frederick Douglass Paper, and The Christian Recorder. Full text is available.

Provides access to more than 40 African newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries. Features English and foreign language titles from Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe.

Database of more than 12,000 printed books, pamphlets, and broadsides recording African American history, literature and culture from the early 16th to the early 20th century.

Alternative Press Index is a bibliographic database of journal, newspaper and magazine articles from hundreds of international alternative, radical and left periodicals. Covering 1991 to the present, it provides access to emerging theories and practices of social change.

Features cover-to-cover reproductions of hundreds of historic newspapers, providing more than one million pages of full text, searchable facsimile images. Collections include Early American Newspapers (1690-1922) and Hispanic American Newspapers (1808-1980).

America's News provides a variety of news media, such as newspaper articles, news blogs, magazines, newswires, journals, transcripts, videos, and web-only news sources. This resource includes access to over 3,600 national, regional, and local news sources, including the Oklahoman from 1981 onward and the Oklahoma Web Edition from 2013 onward. 

Presents over 7,600 titles dating from 1691 through 1877, ranging from early works imported by the colonists to the Civil War and Reconstruction. The collection is grouped in five chronological series and covers all aspects of American society during this time period. Full text is available.

Presents over 6,500 titles dating from 1681 through 1865, ranging from early works imported by the colonists to the Civil War and Reconstruction. The collection is grouped in five chronological series and covers all aspects of American society during this time period. Full text is available.

Provides access to over 1,500 periodicals published between 1741 and 1943, including special interest and general magazines, journals, and other historically significant periodicals. Full text is available.

Archives the African-American historical newspaper the Atlanta Daily World, including full page digital reproductions of every page from all available issues. Full text is available.

Black Life in America, Series 3 offers a window into African American history, culture and daily life—as well as the ways the dominant culture has portrayed and perceived people of African descent. Updated daily with new content, this database provides in-depth coverage of issues involved in America’s ongoing conversation on race, including coverage of historic changes such as Barack Obama’s election and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Contains full runs of influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of British society during the 19th century. Full text is available.

Provides access to hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth century. Formats include magisterial quarterlies, scholarly and professional organs, coterie art periodicals, penny weeklies and illustrated family magazines. Full text is available.

Archives the African-American historical newspaper The Chicago Defender, including full page digital reproductions of every page from all available issues. Full text is available.

Full text online archive of the Chicago Tribune, including full page digital reproductions of every page from all available issues.

Founded in 1949, the Current Digest was first published as The Current Digest of the Soviet Press (1949-1991), followed by The Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press (1992-2010), and now The Current Digest of the Russian Press. Each week, the Current Digest presents a selection of Russian-language press materials, carefully translated into English. The translations are intended for use in teaching and research. They are presented as documentary materials without elaboration or comment, and state the opinions and views of the original authors, not of the publisher of the journal.

Searches the full text of five current newspapers via ProQuest's platform: Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post.

NOTE: Coverage of the New York Times excludes the most recent 30 days. Access to the most recent month of the New York Times online content is available via NYTimes.com in the Databases & E-Reference listings.

Coverage of the Wall Street Journal excludes the most recent week. Access to the most recent week of the Wall Street Journal content is available via Wall Street Journal in the Databases & E-Reference listings. 

The East African Newspapers collection provides insight into the region from the 1940s to the early 2000s. Coverage includes articles on the growth of decolonization, self-governance, famine, drought, political uprisings, and the post-colonial landscape. This growing collection currently includes over 475,000 pages total from three titles: Daily Nation (1958-2002, Kenya), The Ethiopian Herald (1943-1989, Ethiopia), and The Monitor ((1992-2003, Uganda).

Provides selective full text access to current content from The Economist, a premier weekly publication providing timely reporting, concise commentary, and comprehensive appraisal of global news, spanning centuries and continents.

Provides full text access to over 150 years of The Economist, a premier weekly publication providing timely reporting, concise commentary, and comprehensive appraisal of global news, spanning centuries and continents.