E-Resources for Newspapers & Magazines

Pravda was the official voice of the Central Committee of the Communist Party between 1918 and 1991 and the most important newspaper of the Soviet era.

Multidisciplinary database covering issues related to cultural history. This resource indexes more than 550 magazines.

Coverage for regional business publications from the United States and Canadian provinces, including newspapers, radio and TV news transcripts, trade publications, magazines, newswires, and videos. Some full text is available.

The largest single collection of seventeenth and eighteenth century English news media available from the British Library. The resource includes more than 1,000 pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks and newspapers from the period.

Features English, Gujarati, and Bengali language newspapers published in India, in the regions of the Subcontinent that now comprise Pakistan, and in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). South Asian Newspapers offers extensive coverage of the people, issues, culture, politics, and events that shaped the Indian Subcontinent during 19th and 20th centuries.

Included in the World Newspaper Archive database, this collection provides access to ten different nineteenth and twentieth century South Asian newspapers written in Bengali, Gujarati, and English. 

The Soviet-Era Ukrainian Newspapers collection includes five Ukrainian and Russian language newspapers from three different Ukrainian cities, Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Lviv. This collection covers the early 20th century, a tumultuous time for Ukraine, and documents the Ukrainian War for Independence, the Holodomor, and the establishment of the Second Polish Republic and the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

SUR is one of the most important and influential literary magazines published in Latin America in the twentieth century. SUR featured the writings of the leading figures in literature, philosophy, history, and the arts from Latin America, North America, and Western Europe. Contributors included LeCorbusier, Lacan, Sarte, Borges, Cort√°zar, Silvinia Ocampo, and Bioy Casares. This collection includes images of the complete magazine, including covers, photographs, advertisements, a comprehensive electronic index of 6,300 entries as well as an unpublished set of letters by Victoria Ocampo.

Complete searchable digital archive of The Times (London), except for the Sunday edition. Materials indexed include all articles, advertisements, illustrations, and photos. Full text is available.

Provides full access to Wall Street Journal content, including breaking news from around the world, multimedia, detailed analysis, blogs, videos and more.

NOTE: Users must create an account using their OU credentials in order to use this resource and will need to refresh their access on an annual basis. Users should receive an email notification seven days prior to their refresh, indicating how to refresh their access.

Full text online archive of the Wall Street Journal, including full page digital reproductions of every page from all available issues.

NOTE: Coverage includes 1889 - present, excluding the most recent week. Also see Factiva for 2001-2007, or Wall Street Journal for 1997-present.

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

NOTE: Coverage includes 1877-present, excluding the most recent week. Also see Factiva for 2001-2007.

Women's Magazine Archive is a collection of 12 primary source leading women's interest magazines covering multiple aspects of 150 years of 19th and 20th-century American history and culture. Topics covered include social history, careers, the arts, family life, fashion, marketing, education, psychology and health, politics, media history, gender studies, and more. The titles included in this collection are: Better Homes & Gardens (1922 to 2005), Chatelaine (1928 to 2005), Good Housekeeping (1885 to 2005), Ladies’ Home Journal (1883 to 2005), Parents (1926 to 2005), Redbook (1903 to 2005), Cosmopolitan (1886 to 2005), Essence (1970 to 2005), Seventeen (1944 to 2005), Town and Country (1846 to 2005), Woman’s Day (1937 to 2005), and Women’s International Network News (1975 to 2003).

Note: Due to publisher restrictions, full text downloads is restricted to a single page or two page spread in some of these publications. If an article is longer than a two page spread, you will have to download separate page range PDFs and then combine them.