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Access World News (NewsBank)
Provides full-text for over 600 U.S. and over 700 international news sources.
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Alternative Press Index & Archive (EBSCO)
API and Archive contains bibliographic information on over 300 international periodicals dealing with alternative, radical, and left information.  [more info]
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America's Historical Newspapers: 1690-1922 (Readex)
Cover-to-cover digital facsimiles of 1,000 historic newspapers from every state.  [more info]
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British Newspaper Archive
The British Newspaper Archive contains millions of digitized newspapers owned by the British Library.  While searching is free, there is a fee to download full text articles. JMU Libraries are not responsible for paying these fees.  [more info]
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Chicago Defender: Historical (ProQuest)
Full text articles from the Chicago Defender newspapers from 1910-1975.  [more info]
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Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (Library of Congress)
Collection of digitized American newspapers from 1860 to 1922, as well as a directory of non-digitized newspapers from 1690 to the present.   [more info]
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Ethnic NewsWatch (ProQuest)
Full text and indexing for ethnic, minority, and international newspapers and magazines...  [more info]
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Gale NewsVault
Search or browse both the index of19th Century British Newspapers and the full text of 19th Century US Newspapers and Times Digital Archive at once.
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LexisNexis Academic
Contains several full-text databases: current news, laws and legislation, business and company information and more...  [more info]
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Nation Digital Archive (EBSCO)
Index with full-text of the Nation magazine...  [more info]
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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]
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NewspaperArchive - Virginia
Access full text historical newspapers in pdf format. JMU subscribes to select VA newspapers only (excluding coverage from 2007). Content from all other cities and states is not available. See the [more info] link for city details. Dates of coverage varies by title.  [more info]
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US Newspaper Program
The United States Newspaper Program is a cooperative national effort...
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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]
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