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Earliest issue: August 20, 1958. Latest issue: December 31, 2000. Note: Issues published within the date range may be missing. Efforts to locate and add any such missing issues are ongoing.

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A Freely Accessible Repository of Digitized California Newspapers from 1846 to the Present.

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The California Newspaper Project is an 18 year effort by the CBSR to identify, describe and preserve California newspapers.

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Calisphere is the University of California's free public gateway to a world of primary sources. More than 150,000 digitized items, including photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other unique cultural artifacts, reveal the diverse history and culture of California and its role in national and world history.

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Canadian Newsstream

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This database offers access to the full text of over 190 Canadian newspapers from Canada's leading publishers. This full text database includes the complete available electronic backfile for most newspapers, providing full access to the articles, columns, editorials and features published in each. Some backfiles date as far back as the late 1970s.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education is the No. 1 source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators.

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This site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1836-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

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CiNii (Scholarly and Academic Information Navigator) is a database service that enables searching of information on academic articles published in academic society journals or university research bulletins, or articles included in the National Diet Library's Japanese Periodicals Index Database.

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Communication Source

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Includes articles from peer-reviewed journals and trade magazines covering mass media, marketing, communications, and related topics.

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The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is a consortium of North American universities, colleges and independent research libraries.

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Paley Center Seminars

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Paley Center Seminars is a unique video collection of interviews and panel discussions recorded at The Paley Center for Media.

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Pennsylvania Gazette

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The Pennsylvania Gazette, published from 1728-1800, was one of the most prominent and successful newspapers in the American colonies and Early Republic.

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Periodicals Archive Online is a major archive that makes the backfiles of scholarly periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences available electronically, providing access to the searchable full text of hundreds of titles.

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Contains every issue (1938-1957) of the pioneering photo-journalism newspaper that was read by an estimated 80% of the British population at its peak.

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Polling the Nations

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Database of public opinion polls taken on a variety of subjects.

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The website'€™s mission is to promote €œcritical thinking, education, and informed citizenship by presenting controversial issues in a straightforward, nonpartisan, primarily pro-con format.€

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Project MUSE

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MUSE provides access to the complete content (including all images) of nearly 500 current scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences.

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ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

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ProQuest Central

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ProQuest Central serves as the central resource for researchers at all levels.

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ProQuest Civil War Era

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This database provides access to the full runs of eight newspapers from 1840-1865 and nearly 2000 pamphlets focusing on the entire Civil War era, from Manifest Destiny through the end of the Civil War.

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Robert Sengstacke Abbott founded the Defender in May 1905, and by the outbreak of the First World War it had become the most widely-read African American newspaper in the country, with more than two thirds of its readership based outside Chicago.

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ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chinese Newspapers Collection (1832-1953) provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.

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Indianapolis Star (1923-2004) was founded in 1903, by industrialist George McCulloch to compete with two other Indianapolis papers. By1906, the Star had subsumed both competitors. Since then it has been the largest paper in Indiana.

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This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.

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