Newspaper Databases

Full-text access to over 350 U.S and world newspapers including the Financial Times (from 1982), The New York Times (from 1980) and The Washington Post (from 1977); plus broadcast transcripts from the major television and radio networks.

In addition to newspapers, Lexis Nexis Academic: NEWS provides broadcast transcripts from the major television and radio networks, including ABC, CBS, CNN, FOX, NBC and NPR along with Web-based publications, blogs, and nearly 300 individual college/university papers. Also covered are Wire services, updated several times a day, including respected names such as the Associated Press, Business Wire and PR Newswire. Also included is full text from more than 400 magazines and journals and over 600 newsletters, including: Business Week, The Economist, Ebony, Kirkus Reviews, New Republic, Newsweek, Slate, U.S. News & World Report and Variety.

Full-text coverage of the New York Times newspaper from the NYTimes.com web site. Use the drop-down menu next to the search box to search either either from 1981 or the archive from 1851 - 1980.
Coverage: Jan 1, 1981 - Current or 1851 - 1980

Offers every issue in complete paper–cover-to-cover with full-page and article images in downloadable PDF.
Coverage: Sept 18,1851 - Dec 31, 2003

The database covers The New York Times from its first issue in 1851 through 2002. Coverage includes not only news, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, and birth and marriage announcements, but also historical photos, stock photos, and advertisements.

A searchable ASCII text underlies each article and page image. Users can search by keyword and Boolean operators as well as employ more advanced searching techniques. The results list generated by a search includes detailed bibliographic information for the articles retrieved such as article title, publication, issue date, author, page, etc.

Full-text articles from the world's leading journals, newspapers and reference sources, with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects.
Coverage: 1980 - current

Academic OneFile contains over 60 million records from the following types of sources: Periodicals — General interest magazines; refereed academic journals; business publications; technology periodicals; plus specialty titles in law, health care and computers. Newspapers — The full text of The New York Times from 1990, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and Christian Science Monitor. Newswires — 121 wire services covering agriculture, general news, broadcast news, government, business press releases, industry topics, sports and current events from all over the world. Audio — listen to any National Public Radio program, as well as read transcripts, for shows produced by NPR from 1990 to present. Podcasts from government agencies such as the Census and the State Department are also available.

A full text database comprised of more than 190 newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press.
Coverage: 1970 - current

Alt-PressWatch features over 502,000 articles from alternative newsweeklies like Eugene Weekly, Missoula Independent, and The Village Voice as well as over 190 other grassroots newspapers, magazines, and journals. Click here for a complete title list.

Full text of the Globe offers authoritative coverage of local, national and international news.
Coverage: September 1980 - current

Access to full-text coverage of the Boston Globe through detailed indexing that covers not only complete bibliographic information but also subjects, companies, people, products, and geographic areas. In addition, items such as editorials, editorial cartoons, obituaries, and letters to the editor from well-known people are also made easily accessible through the searchable index.

Offers every issue in complete paper–cover-to-cover with full-page and article images in downloadable PDF.
Coverage: March 4, 1872 - Dec. 31, 1924

The Historical Boston Globe covers not only news, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, and birth and marriage announcements, but also historical photos, stock photos, and advertisements. Each article and page image is available as searchable ASCII text. Users can search by keyword and Boolean operators as well as employ more advanced searching techniques. The results list generated by a search includes detailed bibliographic information for the articles retrieved such as article title, publication, issue date, author, page, etc.

Full text of the Boston Herald offers authoritative coverage of local, national and international news.
Coverage: 1991 - current

Access to full-text coverage of the Boston Herald through detailed indexing that covers not only complete bibliographic information but also subjects, companies, people, products, and geographic areas. In addition, items such as editorials, editorial cartoons, obituaries, and letters to the editor from well-known people are also made easily accessible through the searchable index.

An interdisciplinary and bilingual (English and Spanish) full text database of nearly 300 newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses from throughout the U.S.
Coverage: 1960 - current

Ethnic NewsWatch and Ethnic NewsWatch: A History together span over 40 years with nearly 1.2 million full-text, fully indexed articles. The Historic backfile covers 39 of the nearly 300 titles in Ethnic NewsWatch. Publications cover regional news about African American, Native American, Hispanic, Jewish, Muslim, and other ethnic groups. Click here for a title list for Ethnic NewsWatch and here for a title list of Ethnic NewsWatch: A History.

Full text database of over 230 publications that focus on the evolution of gender roles as they affect both men and women. Sources include scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and NGO, government and special reports.
Coverage: 1970 - current

GenderWatch supports gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) studies; family studies; gender studies, and women’s studies with a unique interdisciplinary approach. It contains more than 125,000 full-text articles on wide-ranging topics like sexuality, religion, societal roles, feminism, masculinity, eating disorders, day care, and the workplace. Click here for a complete GenderWatch title list.

An influential black weekly newspaper with cover-to-cover full-page and article images in downloadable PDF.
Coverage: Jul. 31, 1909 - Dec. 31, 1975

The Chicago Defender has been the voice of the African-American Community in Chicago and across the United States. It was the nation's largest and most influential black weekly newspaper by the advent of World War I, with more than two thirds of its readership base located outside of Chicago.

Full-text coverage of the Lowell Sun newspaper.
Coverage: November 2004 - current

Search combined full-text coverage of 14 Massachusetts newspapers including the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Lowell Sun, Quincy Patriot Ledger and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, plus selected coverage of other regional sources.
Coverage: varies by title, oldest is 1980 - current

Provides a combined search of the Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal and Financial Times with all other non-historic ProQuest newspapers from the Massachusetts Newsstand and the Ethnic, Gender and Alternative Press NewsWatch databases.

Search the UMass Lowell Library catalog for books, journals and non-print materials.

Offers full-text coverage of national and international finance as well as first rate coverage of hard news.
Coverage: 1984 - current

Comprehensive, high-quality indexing covers not only complete bibliographic information but also subjects, companies, people, products, and geographic areas, so researchers can easily access not only top news stories but also detailed information on the arts, sports, business, and popular culture. Even such items as editorials, editorial cartoons, and letters to the editor from well-known people are indexed. For each article cited in the database, an abstract of up to 75 words helps the researcher know if the complete text will meet his or her needs.

Offers every issue in complete paper–cover-to-cover with full-page and article images in downloadable PDF.
Coverage: July 8, 1889 - Dec 31, 1989

The database covers The Wall Street Journal from its first issue in 1889 through 2003. Coverage includes not only news, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, and birth and marriage announcements, but also historical photos, stock photos, and advertisements.

A searchable ASCII text underlies each article and page image. Users can search by keyword and Boolean operators as well as employ more advanced searching techniques. The results list generated by a search includes detailed bibliographic information for the articles retrieved such as article title, publication, issue date, author, page, etc.