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This Newspaper research guide provides links to news databases offered by the Reed College Library and other News sources. Use the specialized Menu tabs to the left to find additional sources: Includes newspaper databases; regional, national, and international news sources; historical newspapers; and more.

The "All Digital Newspaper Resources" section below is a full list of every database the Reed College Library subscribes to which provides access to some type of newspaper source, access is free for all Reed staff, faculty and students for the resources on the list. (If you are having trouble accessing any of the resources listed in this section please use the "Ask a Librarian" chat. [Note: this is a work in progress...]

All Digital Newspaper Resources

Accessible Archives (including African American Newspapers) (1700s - 1800s) This link opens in a new window
Full text of a large number of 18th and 19th century American Newspapers including the African American Newspapers collection.
Access World News (1985 - present) This link opens in a new window
Full-text articles from over 2,600 U.S. and international newpapers, including the Oregonian and other regional papers. Includes Selected wire services, radio and television transcripts.
Alternative Press Index (1991 - Present) This link opens in a new window
Useful for researching cultural, economic, political & social change. Indexes alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines.
America's Historical Newspapers (includes access to the Oregonian and Early American Newspapers) (1690 - 1975) This link opens in a new window
Includes articles from early American newspapers. Searchable by presidential eras, eras in American history, place of publications, and newspaper titles. Includes full text of the Oregonian 1861-1971.
Canadian Newsstream This link opens in a new window
This database contains local and regional news coverage for hundreds of Canadian newspapers.
Caribbean Newspapers. Series 1, 1718-1876 This link opens in a new window
More than 140 newspapers from 22 islands. Most published in the English language.
Early American Newspapers (1690 - 1876) This link opens in a new window
Full digital access to many American newspapers. Covering American studies.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (1701 - 1800) This link opens in a new window
A full text, searchable, digital collection of over 180,000 titles. Includes books, pamphlets, essays and more.
FindLaw Legal News & Information This link opens in a new window
Very current legal news headlines and blogs. Includes browse by legal topics feature.
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports (1941 - 1996) This link opens in a new window
English translations of news releases and articles from most countries. For current content, see World News Connection.

Gale Onefile News
This full-text newspaper resource allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, author, newspaper section, or other fields. Gale OneFile: News provides access to more than 2,300 major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers, as well as leading titles from around the world.

Historical Oregon Newspapers This link opens in a new window
The Oregon Digital Newspaper Program (ODNP) is an initiative to digitize historic Oregon newspaper content and make it freely available to the public through a keyword-searchable online database. The initial phase of the program will concentrate on newspapers published between 1860 and 1922, with a goal of approximately 150,000 pages freely available online in the first two years (2009-2011)
Illustrated London News Historical Archive - 1842-2003 This link opens in a new window
This digital archive offers the entire run of this publication in a fully searchable digital format and features high-quality color images that bring to life more than 150 years of social, political and cultural history. Areas covered include politics, social history, fashion, theatre, media, literature, advertising and graphic design, as well as genealogy. Gift of Burton Onstine, '54.
Latin American Newspapers, Series I This link opens in a new window
Full-text articles from Latin American newspapers covering the years 1805-1922, including titles from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela.
Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) This link opens in a new window
Nexis Uni features news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis. A good source for current articles in the New York Times and other major newspapers, and for looking up information about companies, industries and countries.
New York Times This link opens in a new window
The Reed College Library offers all Reed students, faculty, and staff free online access to the New York Times. Access must be activated annually. To activate your access, you need to create an account using your Reed email address. See activation instructions.
New York Times in Education This link opens in a new window
The New York Times in Education provides articles sorted by discipline with related instructional strategies and activities and other content curated by scholars.
The New York Times in Education requires separate registration. Please use your Reed email address when registering.

New York Times via Gale Onefile News
New York Times, National Edition ed. Full-text coverage: January 1, 1985 - Current.
Under "About This Publication" the current year is the default selection in the drop down box, you can select any year as far back as 1985. The daily paper editions will be listed for the selected year by date to the right.

British Library Newspapers (1800 - 1900) This link opens in a new window
Contains full runs of newspapers specially selected by the British Library to best represent nineteenth century Britain.
ProQuest Historical Black Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Search just the "Historical Black Newspapers" portion of the Proquest Historical Newspapers collection. This includes the Chicago Defender, the Los Angeles Sentinel, the New York Amsterdam News, and the Pittsburgh Courier.
ProQuest Historical Chinese Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Includes full-text of twelve English-language Chinese historical newspapers from 1832 to 1953.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Full text of historical newspapers, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and Boston Globe. Also includes historical black newspapers including the Chicago Defender, the Los Angeles Sentinel, the New York Amsterdam News, and the Pittsburgh Courier. Coverage varies but generally starts in the 1800s. Issues include the complete paper, cover-to-cover, with full-page and article images in easily downloadable PDF format.
Sunday Times Digital Archive, 1821-2006 This link opens in a new window
Provides access to the Sunday Times from its launch in 1822 until 2006. It contains more than 600,000 pages including advertisements, obituaries, classified ads and photographs as well as the articles. Early issues contain colourful information on murders, mysteries, theatre, sport and politics. Please note: The Sunday Times is a separate paper from The Times. Reed also provides access to The Times Digital Archive.
The Times Digital Archive (1785 - 2019) This link opens in a new window
A full-text facsimile of more than 200 years of The Times (London), one of the most highly regarded resources for eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century news coverage.
The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive, (1902 - 2019) This link opens in a new window
Searchable archive of book reviews that appeared in the Times Literary Supplement (TLS).
US Newsstream This link opens in a new window
This database contains the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring top newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites.
World News Connection (1996 - Present) This link opens in a new window
English translations of news releases and articles from most countries, updated daily. For earlier content see Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports.

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