InfoGuides: MCOM 1307 : Newspaper Databases

Databases with Newspapers

Gale OneFile: News
Formerly InfoTrac Newsstand. Articles from over 1,000 newspapers in the United States and worldwide. Includes Austin American-Statesman (1996+), and The Houston Chronicle (1996+). National newspapers include The New York Times (1985+), and The Christian Science Monitor (1997+). International papers include the London Times (1985+) and the Times of India (2005+).

Format: Full-text, Coverage: Varies by title. 1996 to present., Truncation and Wildcard: * and ?, Search Tips: Boolean commands. Proximity searching. Can use quotes for precise phrase. Limits available by date, journal title, or section of the paper.
New York Times, The (1851-2017)
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Images of all material published in this important U.S. newspaper. Articles, advertising, letters, funeral notices and photos are all included. Fully searchable and browsable.

Format: Full-text, Coverage: Sept. 18, 1851-Dec. 31, 2017, Truncation and Wildcard: * and ?, Search Tips: Supports Boolean operators AND, AND NOT, and OR. Also supports proximity and adjacency searches. W/# finds words that are within # of words or each other. W/PARA finds terms within the same paragraph.
Newspaper Source Plus
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Full text for more than 1,200 newspapers, mostly international. U.S. coverage is mostly since 2000 from about 20 notable newspapers.

Also has 40+ news magazines, over 130 newswires, and more than 1.8 million television and radio news transcripts.

Format: Majority full-text, Coverage: Varies by title, mostly mid90s - present, Truncation and Wildcard: * and ?, Search Tips: Use quotation marks to phrase search. Allows Boolean AND, OR and NOT searching. May limit to full-text, scholarly journals, date, length, publication name and type. HELP link on each screen, which includes Citation information. Can print, save, or email results. Some full-text publications may have the most current 3-12 months in abstract only, due to publisher restrictions.
Nexis Uni (replaces LexisNexis Academic)
15,000 news, business and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.
America's Historical Newspapers
Focuses on digitized, searchable versions of American newspapers. Includes Early American Newspapers, Series 1, 1690-1876, with coverage of 733 newspapers from 22 states and Washington D.C.

Format: Full-text, Coverage: 1690-1922, Truncation and Wildcard: * and ?, Search Tips: Put phrases in quotation marks. Search function supports Boolean AND, OR, and NOT. Also supports ADJ(x) which finds terms that are within x words of each other and in any order. Text scanning sees the old long s as an f, so in words with an s, substitute the wildcard character ?.
Regional Business News
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A collection of full-text business journals, newsletters, and newswires covering major metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Additional sources contain citations and abstracts.

Format: Majority full-text; some additional full-text via link resolver, Coverage: 1993-present. Varies by title, Truncation and Wildcard: * and ?, Search Tips: Use quotation marks to phrase search. Allows Boolean AND, OR and NOT searching. May limit to full-text, scholarly journals, date, length, publication name and type. HELP link on each screen, which includes Citation information. Can print, save, or email results. Some full-text publications may have the most current 3-12 months in abstract only, due to publisher restrictions.
MasterFILE Complete
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Multi-disciplinary database with full-text coverage of more than 2,300 magazines and journals. Emphasis is popular, rather than scholarly publications. Contains over 870 full-text reference books, over 73,000 full-text primary source documents, more than 1.6 million photos, maps and flags, and over 70,000 videos from the Associated Press.

Format: Majority full-text; some additional full-text via link resolver. Coverage: As early as 1975 - present, Truncation and Wildcard: * and ?, Search Tips: Use quotation marks to phrase search. Allows Boolean AND, OR and NOT searching. May limit to full-text, scholarly journals, date, length, publication name and type. HELP link on each screen, which includes Citation information. Can print, save, or email results. Some full-text publications may have the most current 3-12 months in abstract only, due to publisher restrictions. Add keyword BIOGRAPHY to easily search 88,000 biographies.

Newspapers on microfilm

We have microfilm for these newspapers through the early 90's, often to the present. We also have other papers with earlier coverage.

How to find microfilm

Go to the microfilm cabinets or the periodicals desk
(2nd floor) for help
Look for one of the titles on the left.
Find a roll that contains your birthday
Ask for help using microfilm reader
Find the day after your birthday
You can print from reader if you have money on your Buff Gold Card