ONLINE NEWS DATABASES and  NEWS SOURCES

Lexis/Nexis Academic -- Colgate Users Only
Provides full-text documents from over 5,900 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications including national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources with a variety of flexible search. Coverage varies by title: earliest (New York Times) 1980-current.  Search Help

Custom Newspapers (Gale/InfoTrac) (provided by NOVEL, New York State grant) -- Colgate Users Only
Most full-text to 150 newspapers, both national and international.

Ethnic Newswatch -- Colgate Users Only
An interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses. Linking the current database (1990-present) with a retrospective backfile of titles (1960-1989), the collective coverage spans more than four decades, from 1960 to the present.

Access World News - International Edition -- Colgate Users Only
Articles cover politics, economics, culture, business, science, technology, and the environment from Africa, Asia, Europe, the former Soviet Union, the Pacific Rim, Central and South America, and the Middle East. All articles are in English and are from translated broadcasts, news agency transmissions, wire services, newspapers, magazines, and government documents. From 1996-present.

AP Images (Associated Press)-- Colgate Users Only
AP Images contains over 3 million photographs from the 1840’s through today, with more than 3,000 photos being added on a daily basis. Additionally, users can search through over 50,000 graphics, including maps, timelines, logos and graphs.

National Newspaper Index (Gale/InfoTrac) (provided by NOVEL, New York State grant) -- Colgate Users Only
Provides quick access to the indexing of America's top five newspapers in one seamless search: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post.  From 1977-current.

Newspaper Source (Ebscohost) -- Colgate Users Only
Provides selected full text for 25 national (U.S.) and international newspapers, including USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post, The Times (London), The Toronto Star, etc. The database also contains selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers, including The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Detroit Free Press, The Miami Herald, The New York Daily News, The San Jose Mercury News, etc. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, FOX News, NPR, etc. Coverage varies by title.

In addition to the online databases, Colgate University Libraries holds several other sources that provide excellent international news information.

FBIS (Foreign Broadcast Information Service) Publications
FBIS Daily Reports
Case MFiche Docs (1975-96): PREX 7.10: and PREX 7.13:
Case LASR Journals (1994-96): selected titles
LASR Computer Files (1996-- ): PREX 7 10/3:
(Check Colgate University Libraries' Catalog for region and country Daily Reports)
Provides full text of translations (done by the U.S. govt.) of foreign radio and television broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements from foreign countries. From 1996-

Index to Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports, FBIS (Newsbank) -- Colgate Users Only
Indexes FBIS Daily Reports from 1975-1996.
Full text of Daily Reports available in Case MFiche Docs: PREX 7.10 and PREX 7.13 from 1975-1996. 1994-1996 available in Case Journals, shelved as Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports.

Transdex: bibliography and index to the United States Joint Publications Information Service (JPRS) publications
1970-1971 available in Case Reference: Z7403 .C38
1979-1996 available in Case MFiche Docs: PREX 7.19:
Translations of foreign radio and television broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements from foreign countries. JPRS merged with FBIS beginning in 1995. The 1995 index is divided into 2 parts: JPRS documents and FBIS documents.

Historical News Online

African American Newspapers: the 19th Century -- Colgate Users Only
Includes the full text of the following newspapers:
-Freedom's Journal [New York, NY] March 16, 1827-March 28, 1829
-The Colored American (Weekly Advocate) [New York, NY) Jan. 7, 1837-Dec. 25, 1841
-North Star [Rochester, NY] Dec. 3, 1847-April 17, 1851.
-National Era [Washington, DC] Jan 7, 1847-March 12, 1860 note: completed through 1853
-Provincial Freeman [Catham, Canada West/Ontario] 1854-1857
-Frederick Douglass Paper [Rochester, NY] 1851-1859 note: completed thru. 1852

America's Historical Newspapers (1690-1922) -- Colgate Users Only
America's Historical Newspapers allows users to search more than 1,000 U.S. historical newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 states. (formerly called Early American Newspapers, Series I, II, and III) Being released in stages - additional content will be added.

Chronicling America : Historic American Newspapers (1900-1910)
Chronicling America is a prototype Website providing access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages, and is produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). Currently only content from 1900 - 1910 and from the following states is available: California, District of Columbia, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, and Virginia. Ultimately, over a period of approximately 20 years, NDNP will create a national, digital resource of historically significant newspapers from all the states and U.S. territories published between 1836 and 1922. This searchable database will be permanently maintained at the Library of Congress (LC) and be freely accessible via the Internet.

Ethnic Newswatch: A History (1960-1989) -- Colgate Users Only
Encompasses the civil rights struggle, Vietnam War protests, dramatic changes in immigration law and the status of migrant workers. The experiences and contributions of African Americans, Hispanics, Native Peoples, Asian Americans, European Americans, Jewish Americans and Arab Americans illuminate three critical decades in U.S. and world history.

New York Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) (1851-2001) -- Colgate Users Only

The Times Digital Archive (London) (1785-1985) -- Colgate Users Only
Includes page images of the entire newspaper, articles, advertisements, book reviews, cross word puzzles, letters to the editor, obituaries, and illustrations/photos.

Index to Madisonensis (1869-1915) & Maroon News (1916-1990)
Colgate student newspapers. Searchable PDF file - Contact a Reference Librarian for assistance with this index

New York State Newspapers Online

America's Historical Newspapers (1690-1922) -- Colgate Users Only
America's Historical Newspapers allows users to search more than 1,000 U.S. historical newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 states. (formerly called Early American Newspapers, Series I, II, and III) Being released in stages - additional content will be added.

New York Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) (1851-2001) -- Colgate Users Only

Observer Dispatch (Utica) (2003-current) -- Colgate Users Only
Providing coverage of community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, people in the community and much more.

Post Standard (Syracuse) (1986-current) -- Colgate Users Only
Full-text content of local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Excluded: articles not written by the post-Standard staff (e.g. AP newswire reports, articles reprinted from other newspapers); paid advertisements.

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester) (1999-current) -- Colgate Users Only
Complete full-text content of local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Excluded: articles not written by the post-Standard staff (e.g. AP newswire reports, articles reprinted from other newspapers); paid advertisements.

New York State Newspapers (Gale/InfoTrac) (provided by NOVEL, New York State grant)
Search this database of ten major newspapers published in the state of New York, including the Buffalo News, Herald American (Syracuse), Indian Country Today (Oneida), New York Daily News, New York Observer (NY), New York Post (NY), New York Times, Newsday (Melville), Post-Standard (Syracuse), Post-Star (Glens Falls), Times Herald-Record (Middletown), Times Union (Albany), Watertown Daily Times.

Page created by David Hughes and Barbara Burd
maintained by Mike Poulin, Digital Resources Librarian
last updated: June 19, 2006