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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)
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Coverage: 1993 - present
Internet
Access World News (Readex)
Provides full-text for over 600 U.S. and over 700 international news sources.[more info]
Coverage: 1977 - present
Campus/Remote
Ethnic NewsWatch (ProQuest)
Full text and indexing for ethnic, minority, and international newspapers and magazines...[more info]
Coverage: 1949 - Present
Campus/Remote
Dow Jones Factiva (Factiva)
Factiva's name has been changed to Dow Jones Factiva 2/18/2008.
Gateway to business resources including full text of periodicals, news photographs, company reports...[more info]
Coverage: Current
Campus/Remote
LexisNexis Academic
LexisNexis is updating this interface environment April 26, 2008 - changes are subtle. Preview the changes here.
Contains several full-text databases: current news, laws and legislation, business and company information and more...[more info]
Coverage: Current
Campus/Remote
Newspaper Source (EBSCO)

Selected full text for U.S. and international newspapers...[more info]
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...[more info]
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...[more info]
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...[more info]
Coverage: 1740 - 1900
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) ...[more info]
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...[more info]
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.[more info]
Coverage: 1800's - 1995
Campus/Remote
Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 (HW Wilson)
Indexes the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States...[more info]
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...[more info]
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...[more info]
Coverage: Dec 12, 1877 - about 15 years ago
Campus/Remote

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