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A SELECTION OF ONLINE NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS FOR KEEPING UP WITH THE PAST
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
-- William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun, Act I (1951)
The selected list of online newspapers and periodicals to help you keep up with the past does not include references to IUB's holdings in print or microform. You may search IUCAT for newspapers and periodicals that the Libraries own in those formats.
You may also search newspapers in any format in IUCAT using a keyword search with the name of a city followed by 752 in curly brackets: bloomington {752}.
NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS
17th and 18th Century Burney Collection
A full-text, fully searchable digital archive of nearly 1,270 newspapers and news pamphlets from the United Kingdom. Coverage: 1600-1799
19th Century British Library Newspapers
Searchable full text of full runs of newspapers specially selected by the British Library to best represent nineteenth-century Britain.
19th Century Historical United States Newspapers
A digital archive of American historical newspapers from the 19th century
Access World News
Full-text access to local and regional newspapers. Includes access to the Chicago Tribune, as well as America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922
African American Newspapers (1827-1998)
Full text of African American newspapers
African-American Newspapers: The 19th Century
Database contains the complete text of articles from some of the major African- American newspapers published in the United States during the 19th century. Coverage: selected 19th century
African American Periodicals, 1825-1995
Searchable, full text articles from more than 170 African American periodicals
African Newspapers
40 fully searchable African newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries
American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I, 1760-1900
Full-color digital facsimiles of 18th- and 19th-century American ephemeral publications (broadsides, ballads, programs, sermons, libretti, etc) Coverage: 1760-1900
American Periodicals Series Online
Digital archive of 1000 American magazine and journal titles, from 1740 to 1900.
America's Historical Newspapers
(Also known as Early American Newspapers) More than 1,000 U.S. historical newspapers published during the past four centuries, including titles from all 50 present states, 1690-1922.
British Newspapers 1600-1900
Comprehensive digital access to historic newspapers, newsbooks, ephemera and national & regional papers from British Isles.
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index
Includes the Wellesley Index and the 19th Century Short Title Catalog. Coverage: 19th Century
The most popular women's periodical of its day, with stories, poems, fashion, illustrations and music.
Hispanic American Newspapers 1808-1980
digital collection of Spanish-language newspapers printed in the United States since the 19th century
Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003
Archive of the British pictorial weekly, full text and illustrations
Izvestiia Digital Archive
Searchable full-text archive of the Soviet newspaper "Izvestiia" from the first issue published in 1917.
JSTOR
Provides searchable full-text of historical runs of important scholarly journals in the humanities, arts, sciences, ecology, and business. Coverage: From the first issue of each journal up to 3-5 years ago
Los Angeles Sentinel
Full page and article images with searchable full text from the Los Angeles Sentinel, 1934-2005
Los Angeles Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
The full text of the Los Angeles Times, with images of pages and articles; users can search and limit by date and article type. Coverage: 1881-1985
New York Amsterdam News (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
Full page and article images with searchable full text from the New York Amsterdam news, 1922-1993
New York Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
The full text of the NYT, images of pages and articles, search and limit by date and article type. Coverage: 1851-2003
Nineteenth Century Historical United States Newspapers
A digital archive of American historical newspapers from the 19th century, including over 1.5 million full-text pages, many complete with images. Coverage: 19th century
Nineteenth Century Masterfile
Indexes that cover British and American periodicals in the nineteenth century including the Index to Periodical Literature, 1802-1906 (or "Poole's") by William F. Poole. Coverage: Nineteenth Century
Oxford Journals Online Archives - Humanities
Backfiles of Oxford University Press humanties journals.
Pennsylvania Gazette
Newspaper published in Philadelphia between 1728 and 1800 Coverage: 1728-1800
Periodicals Archive Online
Previously known as PCI Full Text, Periodicals Archive Online offers backfiles of over 400 humanities and social sciences journals. Coverage: 17th century to the present
Pittsburgh Courier (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
Full page and article images with searchable full text from the Courier, 1911 -2002
Pravda
The central daily newspaper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Coverage: 1912-2009
ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Search all the titles in the ProQuest Historical Newspaper collection simultaneously
Readers Guide Retrospective 1890-1982
Provides access to citations from 512 of the leading United States journals from 1890- 1982.
Retrospektive Digitalisierung wissenschaftlicher Rezensionsorgane und Literaturzeitschriften
This project aims to digitally recreate the corpus of German Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment journals and review sources.
South Asian Newspapers
Searchable 19th and 20th century newspapers from South Asia featuring titles from India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka presented in original page images
Times Digital Archive (The Times, London)
The full text of The Times (London), images of pages and articles, search and limit by date and article type. Use Lexis-Nexis for 1986-today. Coverage: 1785-1985 when completed.
TLS: the Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive
The TLS Centenary Archive provides access to the full text of over 250,000 review and articles in the TLS. Coverage: 1902-1990
Times of India (1838-2001) ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
Digitized full text of the world's most widely circulated English daily newspaper, originally published for English residents in India
Virginia Gazette, 1736-1780
Searchable content of the Virginia Gazette
The Wall Street Journal (1899-1994)
Full text of the WSJ, America's business newspaper.
Washington Post (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
The full text of the Washington Post, with images of pages and articles; users can search and limit by date and article type. Coverage: 1877-1990
World Newspaper Archive
A collection of historical newspapers from around the globe. Coverage: 19th century through the 1990's.
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COLLECTIONS AND DIRECTORIES OF NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS Making of America(Michigan host)
Making of America (Cornell host)
American Memory (Library of congress)
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers 1900- 1910 (Library of Congress)
Open-access newspaper collections digitized by the University of Florida
"The Catalog of Digital Historical Newspapers (NewspaperCat) is a tool that facilitates the discovery of online digitized historical newspaper content from newspapers published in the United States and the Caribbean. NewspaperCat was funded by a grant from the George A. Smathers Libraries.
Search by keyword, newspaper title or by city, county or state to locate titles. From your search result, click on the link(s) to connect to the digital newspaper(s). In many cases, this content is keyword searchable, depending on the hosting organization.
NewspaperCat currently links to over 1000 full-text newspaper titles with a goal to include links to as many US and Caribbean newspapers with archival digital content as possible.. Plans are to expand the Catalog as newly digitized newspaper titles are located."
Digital Military Newspaper Library
Caribbean Newspaper Digital Library
Gallica
Gallica, the Bibliotheque National's collection of full text books, periodicals, maps, illustrations and other materials, includes historical newspapers. Among those papers currently available full text are Le Figaro from 1826-1942 (with some years missing) and La Presse from 1832-1922. Other titles include Le Temps, La Croix, L’Humanité, Le Journal des débats politiques et littéraires, Journal des débats et des décrets, Journal de l’Empire, Le Gaulois, Le Petit Parisien, La Lanterne, Le Matin, L’Aurore, Ouest-Eclair : éditions de Rennes, Caen et Nantes, L’Action française, Le Constitutionnel, L’Univers, and Le Petit Journal.
Google News Archive
United States Online Historical Newspapers (Google)
Newspaper Archives/Indexes/Morgues (Libraryof Congress)
Historical Newspapers Online (University of Illinois)
Wikipedia:List of online newspaper archives
NewspaperCat: Catalog of Digital Historical Newspapers (University of Florida)
The Online Books Page: Serials (University of Pennsylvania)
Project Guttenberg Periodicals
RSAP: Resources for Research: Periodicals
Women Working, 1800-1930 (Harvard University. Open Collections Program)
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NEWSPAPERS, STATE BY STATE
Alaska
Alaska Newspapers Index
(Index only)
California
California Digital Newspaper Collection
Colorado
Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection
Florida
Florida Digital Newspaper Library
Georgia
Digital Library of Georgia
Atlanta Journal Consitution (Index, with preview; articles available with payment)
Hawaii
Hawaiian Nupepa Collection
Hawaiian Language newspapers
Illinois
Barrington Review
Quincy Historical Newspaper Archive
Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection
Digital Newspaper Collection (University of Illinois)
Kentucky
Northern Kentucky Newspaper Index (Index only)
Kentuckiana Digital Library
Louisiana
Louisiana Newspaper Access Program - LaNeAP
Maine
Welcome to the Snow Index to Brunswick Newspapers (Maine)
(Index only)
Massachusetts
Harvard Crimson
Minnesota
Winona Newspaper Project
Missouri
Historic Missouri Newspaper Project
Missouri Digital Heritage
Nevada
Las Vegas Age
New Jersey
Cranbury Press
Atlantic County Newspapers
New York
Brooklyn Daily Eagle (1841-1902)
Northern New York Historical Newspapers
Suffolk Historic Newspapers
New York Daily Tribune Index (Index only)
North Carolina
North Carolina Newspaper Digitization Project
Pennsylvania
The Occident and American Jewish Advocate
Digital Newspapers at Penn State
Columbia Spy
Pittsburgh Jewish Newspaper Project
Pennsylvania Civil War Era Newspaper Collection
South Carolina
The New South
Utah
Utah Digital Newspapers
Virginia
Richmnond Daily Dispatch
Civil War Era Newspapers
Virginia Gazette
Washington
Historical Newspapers in Washington
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Local History & Biography Articles
Wyoming
Wyoming newspaper project
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OTHER SOURCES
Australian newspapers
Christian Science Monitor (Index, with preview; articles available with payment)
Silent Worker
Stars and Stripes 1918-1919
Time Archive (Articles and covers from Time Magazine; advertising on the pages)
Digitized German newspapers from the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
Digitales Zeitungsarchiv (Landesbibliothek Dr. Friedrich Tessman)
Over 50 full-text newspapers published in French and German in the alpine/ Tyrolean region of Germany, Austria, and Italy. Period of coverage is 1794 to 2006.
Zeitschriften und Zeitungen (Reprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)
Small collection of digitized periodicals and newspapers. Includes Feldzeitungen aus dem 1. Weltkrieg (1914-1918), Der Heidelberger Student (May 1929 - February 1938), Heidelberger Zeitung (1861-1919), Relation (Strassburg, 1609, oldest newspaper in the world), Zeitung für Einsiedler (1808).
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GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
Gallica
Includes French parliamentary document and debates
HeinOnline
Provides full-text of historial treaties, regulations, and presidential documents. Includes the searchable texts of the Annals of the Congress of the United States 1st Congress to 18th Congress, 1st Session (1789-1824, Register of Debates in Congress Vols. 1-14 (1825-1837), Congressional Globe Vols. 1-46 pt. 3 (1833-1873), Congressional Record Vols. 1-150 pt. 12 (1873- ); Journals, American State Papers, Letters to Delegates, Territorial Papers
House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, 1902-2004
Indexing and full text of the British House of Commons Parliamentary Papers in the 20th century, including command papers. Does not include parliamentary debates (Hansard)
LexisNexis Congressional
Provides easy access to congressional publications since 1789 and some full-text of reports, bills, resolutions, and laws to the present.
LexisNexis U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection
Full text, digital version of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set. Coverage: 1774- 1969
Nineteenth Century Masterfile
Indexes to British and American periodicals in the nineteenth century and to British and American official publications, including Hansard and Cobbett's debates.
Public Documents Masterfile
Database providing electronic access to historical as well as current indexes to documents products by government agencies. Coverage: 1700s to date
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jg last revised November 18, 2012
