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Articles from Current Newspapers

Daily News-Record
Daily News-Record online with links to other area newspapers. (free web site for today's paper)
Daily News-Record Search and Archives via Readex, 1993-present (JMU users get archival articles for free)
Coverage: 1993 - present
Internet
Access World News (Readex)
Provides full-text for over 600 U.S. and over 700 international news sources.
Coverage: 1977 - present
Campus/Remote
Ethnic NewsWatch (ProQuest)
Full text and indexing for ethnic, minority, and international newspapers and magazines...
Coverage: 1990 - Present
Campus/Remote
Dow Jones Factiva
Gateway to business resources including full text of periodicals, news photographs, company reports...
Coverage: Current
Campus/Remote
LexisNexis Academic
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Contains several full-text databases: current news, laws and legislation, business and company information and more...
Coverage: Current
Campus/Remote
Newspaper Source Plus (EBSCO)
Selected full text for U.S. and international newspapers...
Coverage: 1975 - present
Campus/Remote
World News Digest (Facts On File News Services)
Facts and overviews of historic events and issues since 1940. Content includes full text articles, essays...
Coverage: 1940 - present
Campus/Remote

Articles from Historical Newspapers

These are great sources for historical events.  Be careful to look at the dates of coverage for each of these sources.

America's Historical Newspapers: 1690-1922 (Readex)
Cover-to-cover digital facsimiles of 1,000 historic newspapers from every state...
Coverage: 1690 - 1922
Campus/Remote
American Periodical Series (ProQuest)
Digitized page images from American magazines and journals of all types. Titles range from some of the first...
Coverage: 1741 - 1940
Campus/Remote
HarpWeek (Harper's Weekly, 1857-1912) (HarpWeek)
A full-text database of Harper's Weekly text and images from the 19th century (1857-1912) ...
Coverage: 1857 - 1912
Campus/Remote
New York Times: Historical (ProQuest)
Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue to about 3 years ago...
Coverage: Sept 18,1851 - about 3 years ago
Campus/Remote
Periodicals Archive Online (ProQuest)
Full text for journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
Coverage: 1802 - 1995
Campus/Remote
Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 (HW Wilson)
Indexes the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States...
Coverage: 1890 - 1982
Campus/Remote
Times Digital Archive (Gale)
Search every word of every page of The London Times, and view PDF facsimiles of either a specific article or a...
Coverage: 1785 - 1985
Campus/Remote
Washington Post: Historical (ProQuest)
Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue to about 15 years ago...
Coverage: Dec 12, 1877 - 1990
Campus/Remote

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