Research Databases : Newspapers

  • Accessible Archives (1728-1870): Provides the full text of articles from more than a dozen American newspapers and magazines from the 18th-19th centuries.
  • American Periodicals Series Online (1740-1900): Digitized images of the pages of over 1,100 historic American magazines, journals, and newspapers.
  • America's Historical Newspapers: Early American newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 present states.
  • Amercia's Newspapers: Newsbank: Online full-text for the Columbus Dispatch, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Toledo Blade, and the Dayton Daily News (as well as archives of the Cincinnati Post).
  • Cleveland News Index: Produced by the Cleveland Public Library, indexes local news stories, feature articles and selected reviews from: the Plain Dealer, Cleveland Magazine (1983-), Northern Ohio Live (Sept. 1990-), and Ohio Magazine (Oct. 1990-). Obituaries from the Plain Dealer and the Cleveland Press are included from 1976 to the present. It consists of two parts, a news section and personal name section. Routine sports events are not indexed.
  • Crain's Cleveland Business Archives (1994-): Indexes the full text archive of Crain's Cleveland Business. Updated daily.
  • Ethnic NewsWatch (1990-): Access to full text of newspapers published by and for minority and native ethnic groups. Includes articles, editorials, columns, reviews, etc. to provide a broad diversity of perspectives and viewpoints.
  • Lexis-Nexis Academic: Full text news, business, legal, medical, and reference information.
  • LGBT Life with Full Text: contains all of the content available in LGBT Life and full text for significant LGBT journals, magazines, regional newspapers as well as monographs.
  • New York Times (1986- ): Covers U.S. and international affairs as well as in-depth coverage of New York City developments. Includes the New York Times Book Review and New York Times Magazine. Online version updated daily.
  • New York Times (Historic) (1857-2005): Contains the full text of the New York Times from 1857 to 2005. Covers U.S. and international affairs as well as in-depth coverage of New York City developments. Includes the New York Times Book Review and New York Times Magazine.
  • Newspaper Source (1995-): Full text for regional U.S. newspapers, international newspapers, newswires, and newspaper columns.
  • Regional Business News latest 30 days: A full text newswire database that incorporates business wires from all over the world.
  • Wall Street Journal (1984-): Contains full text articles from the Wall Street Journal from January 2, 1984 through today's issue. Browse issues, or search for terms in citation, abstract, or article text.
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