| Online Newspaper Databases |
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| 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection The 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection features newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757 – 1817) representing the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media. The 700 or so bound volumes of newspapers and news pamphlets were published mostly in London, however there are also some English provincial, Irish and Scottish papers, and a few examples from the American colonies, Europe and India. |
| Accessible Archives Accessible Archives contains 19th and 20th century primary material found in leading historic periodicals and books. Eyewitness accounts of historical events, descriptions of daily life, editorial observations, commerce as seen through advertisements. Some resources and collections available for access are Godey’s Lady’s Book (Parts 1-9); The Civil War collection (Parts 1-6), Virginia Gazette (Parts 1-5), African American Newspapers collection, Pennsylvania Genealogical Catalogue, Pennsylvania Newspaper Record, the Lily, Frank Leslie’s Weekly, National Citizen and Ballot Box and the Revolution. |
| African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 African American Newspapers, 1827-1998, provides online access to approximately 270 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience. This unique collection, which includes papers from more than 35 states, features many rare and historically significant 19th-century titles. |
| Alt-HealthWatch Alt-HealthWatch is a full-text database of more than 140 periodicals, journals, professional publications, magazines, consumer newsletters and newspapers, research reports, and association newsletters focused on complementary, alternative, and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. |
| Alternative Press Index Alternative Press Index (API) is a bibliographic database of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from over 300 international alternative, radical, and left periodicals. Born of the New Left, the API was launched to provide access to the emerging theories and practices of radical social change. Alternative Press Index covers theories and practices of socialism and revolution alongside; ecology, democracy and anarchism, feminism and organized labor, and indigenous peoples and gays/lesbians. API coverage is both international and interdisciplinary. |
| Archive of Wisconsin Newspapers The Wisconsin Newspaper Association’s Archive of Wisconsin Newspapers provides access to more than 250 Wisconsin newspapers from 2005 to 90 days ago, and 13 historical Wisconsin newspapers from the 1800s and 1900s. Each addition is covered cover to cover in a PDF, searchable format. |
| BadgerLink BadgerLink provides access to information resources for Wisconsin residents in cooperation with the state’s public, school, academic, and special libraries. It includes access to over 6,000 magazines, newsletters and newspapers. Many of the titles are full text. |
| Black Literature Index Black Studies Index allows users to search over 70,000 bibliographic citations for fiction, poetry and literary reviews published in 110 black periodicals and newspapers between 1827-1940. |
| Black Studies Center Black Studies Center is a fully searchable gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals and historical newspaper articles. |
| British Library Newspapers British Library Newspapers contains full runs of influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of British society. |
| Chicago Defender The Chicago Defender (1909-1975) offers full page and article images with searchable full text. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. |
| Civil Engineering Database The Civil Engineering Database (CEDB) is designed to provide easy bibliographic access to all ASCE publications. The database covers ASCE documents published since 1970. It provides access to all the journals, conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines, and newspapers. |
| GenderWatch GenderWatch is a repository of important historical perspectives on the evolution of the women’s movement, men’s studies, the transgender community and the changes in gender roles over the years. Publications include scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books and NGO, government and special reports. |
| Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Milwaukee Journal Sentinel digital newspaper. Current content is available as well as a text (back to 1990) and image archive (back to 2018). Archival issues prior to 2019 are available on microfilm. Current issues are available in print in the Media and Reserve Library. |
| Newspapers.com Library Edition – World Collection. Newspapers.com Library Edition – World Collection contains historical newspapers from the 1700s – 2000s. Included are thousands of well-known regional, state, and small local newspapers in the United States and other countries. There are 150 Wisconsin-specific titles including the Janesville Daily Gazette, the Racine Daily Herald, the Eau Claire Leader, and many more. |
| Newspaper Source Plus Newspaper Source Plus includes more than 860 full-text newspapers, providing more than 35 million full-text articles. In addition, the database features more than 857,000 television and radio news transcripts. |
| Nineteenth Century Collections Online Nineteenth Century Collections Online unites multiple, distinct archives into a single resource, including a wide variety of previously unavailable primary sources ranging from books and monographs, newspapers and periodicals, diaries and personal letters, manuscripts, photographs, pamphlets, and maps. |
| Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers The Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers collection contains digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers and advanced searching capabilities. For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration. |
| ProQuest Historical Newspapers: |
| Chicago Defender (1909-1975) The Chicago Defender (1909-1975) offers full page and article images with searchable full text. |
| Chicago Tribune (1849-1999) The Chicago Tribune (1849-1994) offers full page and article images with searchable full text. |
| Los Angeles Times (1881-2000) The Los Angeles Times (1881-1994) offers full page and article images with searchable full text. |
| The New York Times (1851-2020) The New York Times (1851-2014) offers full page and article images with searchable full text. |
| The Wall Street Journal (1889-2012) The Wall Street Journal (1889-2000) offers full page and article images with searchable full text. |
| The Washington Post (1877-2007) The Washington Post (1877-2001) offers full page and article images with searchable full text. |
| Proquest Dailies – 1980 to current Chicago Tribune Los Angeles Times New York Times Wall Street Journal Washington Post |
| Regional Business News Regional Business News indexes 75 business journals, newspapers and news wires from major metropolitan areas within the United States. Full text is available for more than 50 titles. |
| SRDS Media Solutions UWM Libraries has access to these SRDS modules: Websites & Programmatic Inventory (under Digital), Consumer Magazines and Business Publications (under Magazines), Newspapers, Reps & Press Associations (under Newspapers), TV & Cable and Radio (under Broadcast), Out-of-Home and Claritas 360. The Claritas 360 module provides data on interests, hobbies and behaviors within certain geographic and demographic markets as well as PRIZM segmentation reports. **Please note: The Claritas 360 module supports Google Chrome only. |
| The Times Digital Archive The Times Digital Archive allows users to search over 200 years of this invaluable historical source. First published in 1785, The Times of London is widely considered to be the world’s ‘newspaper of record’. (1785-2014) |
| Ulrichsweb Ulrichsweb (Ulrich’s Periodical Directory) is the authoritative source of detailed information on periodicals of all types — academic and scholarly journals, Open Access publications, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more from around the world. |
| US Newsstream Large collection of US newspapers, many in full text, as well as news sites, blogs, and newswires from the 1980s to the present (dates vary by title). Includes The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and The Wall Street Journal. |
| UWM Post Newspaper 1956-2012 The UWM Post has served as UWM’s unofficial news outlet and a primary source of news about campus activities, the university administration, and the greater Milwaukee area. It published on a weekly basis and was operated entirely by student staff. The Post printed its last issue in November 2012 and has published online exclusively since 2013. The digital collection represents an almost complete run of the Post; gaps in the digital collection reflect gaps in the physical collection housed in the UWM Archives. |