There are many other sources for news and information available through the Yale Library. Some resources are available over the Internet, many others are on CD-ROM, and others are only in print. Information about other general news sources may be found on the Newspaper and Microform Reading Room home page and within Research Guides by Subject created by Yale librarians.

Academic Search  Elite (EBSCOhost):

EBSCOhost's Academic Search database provides access to journal articles in most academic areas of study. It includes full-text coverage of many journals from 1990 to the present including titles such as Time, Newsweek, the Economist and U.S. News & World Report.

Alternative Press Index and Alternative Press Index Archive

The Alternative Press Index and its archive, covering 1969 - present, are widely regarded as the leading guide to the alternative press in North America. Citations are drawn from roughly 250 alternative, radical, and left publications, that report and analyze the practices and theories of cultural, economic, political, and social change. API indexes such important periodicals as: Cineaste, Environmental Action, Socialist Review, and Women's Review of Books. 90% of the publications indexed in API are unique; you won't find them indexed in the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature or the Social Sciences Index. Approximately 17,000 new records (some with abstracts) are added each year.
Major topics include: African-American Studies, ethnic & racial studies, feminism, gay/lesbian studies, community organizing, ecology, labor studies, social theory, socialism, alternative organizations, anarchism, prisons, indigenous people's rights, internationalism.

Alt-Press Watch

A full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press: a source of coverage, viewpoints and perspectives to complement the coverage of the mainstream media. Subject areas include the arts, media and popular culture, business and labor studies, education, environmental studies and ecology, global studies, history, journalism, literary and critical studies, political science, government and public policy, and social science.

EIU ViewsWire

Each day the EIU ViewsWire provides 100-125 analytical articles on any of 195 major and emerging markets. Unlike traditional news services, the EIU ViewsWire offers views--not news--to help you make informed international business decisions. To accomplish this, EIU ViewsWire editors rely on contributions from the Economist Intelligence Unit's global network of 500 analysts, correspondents and editors based in more than 100 countries, plus the EIU's comprehensive database of country, industry and best-practice information. The EIU ViewsWire also draws on the full resources of the Economist Group, including the Economist, the Journal of Commerce, CFO magazine, as well as other reputable world sources, such as the Financial Times, the World Bank and OECD.

Ethnic NewsWatch

Ethnic NewsWatch is a full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. This collection of articles, editorials, columns, and reviews provide a broad diversity of perspectives and viewpoints.

Factiva (formerly Dow Jones Interactive)

Factiva contains nearly 8,000 sources from 118 countries and 22 languages, and 120 continuously updated newswires.
Coverage includes:

• Same-day and archival coverage of The Wall Street Journal,Washington Post, The Globe and Mail, Financial Times, Handelsblatt, Les Echos, South China Morning Post, Australian Financial Review, Sydney Morning Herald, Straits Times, Yomiuri Shimbun, and local newspapers from every corner of the globe.
• Newswires include Dow Jones, Reuters, Associated Press, Asia Pulse, and over 120 other continuously updating industry, press release and local newswires.
• Transcripts from BBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CNN, NPR and more.

GenderWatch

A full text database of publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas including business, education, literature and the arts, health sciences, history, political science, public policy, sociology and contemporary culture, and gender and women's studies.

iCONN: Connecticut Digital Library

iCONN, Connecticut Digital Library provides access to a wide selection of information databases and other electronic resources such as InfoTrac One File, General Reference Center GOLD, Expanded Academic Index, Business & Company Resource Center, and Health & Wellness Resource Center, to support the educational, cultural, personal and economic interests of Connecticut citizens.

WilsonWeb

A collection of periodical indexing databases covering the Arts, Humanities, Sciences, and Social Sciences. You can search the databases separately, or use WilsonWeb's Check Relevant Databases feature at the bottom of the initial search screen to search across multiple databases simultaneously.

A selected bibliography of historical news and newspaper indexes and databases that may include full-text of historical newspapers:

African American Newspapers: The 19th Century
Available through Accessible Archives
The full text of seven African American newspapers of the 19th century.

The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective (Malvern, PA: Accessible Archives, 1994)
Available through Accessible Archives
The full text of selected Civil War era newspapers. The CD-ROM versions in the SML CD-ROM Center contains digital images of the newspapers.

Historical Newspapers Online
Palmer's Index to the Times, 1790-1905
SML, Reference, Index Case AI21 T543 (LC)
Palmer's Full Text Online, 1785-1870
Historical Newspapers Online offers an index to The Times (London) and access to the full articles referenced in Palmer's Index to The Times. The indexes permit searches for names, events, and concepts occurring across a period of almost two hundred years of British and American history.

Poole's Plus/ 19th Century Masterfile
Poole's Plus Index to Periodical Literature offers a single electronic search across a merged file covering six printed indexes, including date information added to each of the 400,000+ citations, an author index that enables full searching and linking by author's names, and expanded title information of the 479 titles in Poole's.

Niles Register (Malvern, PA: Accessible Archives, 1994)
SML, Microtext Center, CD-ROM
Cumulative index of the Weekly Register, Niles' Weekly Register, and Niles' National Register from 1811-1849. Analysis of U.S. news and events around the world.

Nineteenth Century Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, 1890-1899. (New York: H.W. Wilson, 1944.) 2 vols.
Available through Poole's Plus/ 19th Century Masterfile
SML, Main Reading Room Index Cases AI3 R43 (LC)
An author, subject, and illustrator index to articles and reviews appearing in 51 periodicals published in the U.S. and U.K. between 1890 and 1899. "Fourteen titles were indexed beyond 1899 in order to make the indexing of each title complete from the year 1890 to the time it was added to the list of one of the current Wilson indexes." - Preface. Broad subject coverage. Book reviews are listed under author only.

Pennsylvania Gazette (Malvern, PA: Accessible Archives, 1994
Available through Accessible Archives
The full text of the Gazette, published in Philadelphia from 1728 through 1800, The Pennsylvania Gazette is considered The New York Times of the 18th century

The Pennsylvania Newspaper Record: Delaware County 1819-1870
Available through Accessible Archives
This database documents the industrialization of predominantly agrarian culture established by Quaker farmers in the 18th century with full-text transcriptions of articles, advertisements, and vital statistics, providing insight into technology, business activity and material culture in a down-river milling and manufacturing community at the height of the Industrial Revolution. .Material from the following newspapers is included: Delaware County American, Media, Pennsylvania; Delaware County Republican, Darby & Chester, Pennsylvania; The Upland Union, Chester, Pennsylvania; Delaware County Democrat, Chester, Pennsylvania; The Post Boy, Chester, Pennsylvania.

Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature (New York: H.W. Wilson, 1905-.)
Available online
SML, Main Reading Room Index Cases AI1 R43 (LC)
An author and subject index to articles, literary works, and book and live and recorded performance reviews published in popular English language periodicals with broad subject coverage from 1900 to the present.

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