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Newspapers and Newspaper Indexes

Newspapers

    To access current, full-text Latin American Newspapers, use the ProQuest database Latin American Newsstand (see description below). The paper version of a small number Latin American newspaper titles received by the library are located in the Newspaper Room on the first floor of the Sterling Memorial Library. The Latin American section of the Newspaper Room is located on the right side of the room under the heading "Latin America." The Latin American Collection also has a considerable number of Latin American newspapers on microfilm. These are housed in the Microtext Room, located in the basement floor of SML.

    ProQuest Latin American Newsstand provides full-text information in Spanish and Portuguese from 41 newspapers from Latin America and Puerto Rico. The complete articles are available in ASCII format. Key newspaper titles include Reforma and El Universal (Mexico); O Globo and Folha de São Paulo (Brazil); EL Comercio (Peru); La nación (Argentina); El Mercurio (Chile); El Nacional (Venezuela) and Portafolio (Colombia).
    Holdings: Microfilm: January 1983 – June 2002. Call No: Film S1706
    A clipping service reviewing nine U.S. and British newspapers. Arrangement is by country.
    Starting in August 2007, this service is now available online: http://isla.lmi.net/ (access by IP recognition).
The following is a selected listing of Latin American newspapers in the Yale library on microfilm.
Argentina Brasil Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba México Nicaragua Perú Puerto Rico Uruguay
Argentina
Página 12. Holdings: Paper: Held for one year. Microfilm: 1987 - present.
    Call No. Film S3712.
La Prensa. Holdings: Microfilm: 1857, 1869-1951, 1956- 1995.
    Call No: Film An P919

Brasil
Estado de São Paulo. Holdings: Microfilm: 1875- present. Call No: Film An Es85
Folha de São Paulo. Holdings: Paper: Held for one year. Microfilm: 1988-present. Call No: Film S2775
Jornal do Brasil. Holdings: Paper: Held for one year. Microfilm: 1965-present. Call No: Film An J76
 
Brazilian Historical Newspapers
Chile
Mercurio. Holdings: Microfilm: 1961-present. Call No: Film An M535

Colombia
El Tiempo. Holdings: Microfilm: 1962-present. Call No: Film An T44

Costa Rica
La Nación. Holdings: Microfilm: 1981- present. Call No: Film An N1173

Cuba
Granma (Spanish daily edition). Holdings: Microfilm: 1988-1991;1994- present. Call No: Film An G765
Granma (English weekly edition). Holdings: Paper: 1991; 1993 - present. Microfilm: 1966/1967-1990, 1992. Call No: Film An G7651
Juventud Rebelde. Holdings: Paper: 1994 - present. Microfilm: 1965-1994. Call No: Film An J988
Trabajadores. Holdings: Paper: 1992 - present. Microfilm: 1980-1996. Call No: Film S2888

México
El Demócrata. Holdings: Microfilm:1918-1926. Call No: Film B18369
Excélsior. Holdings: Microfilm:1918-1985, 2000-2003. Call No: Film An Ex22
Financiero. Holdings: Microfilm: 1990- 1994. Call No: Film S3276
La Jornada. Holdings: Paper: Held for two years. Microfilm: 1991. Call No: Film S3311
El Nacional. Holdings: Microfilm: 1985-1991. Call No: Film An N1174
Reforma. Holdings: Paper: Held for two years. Microfilm: 1999-present. Call No. Film: S4122
El Universal. Holdings: Microfilm: 1916-1929, 1934-1937. Call No: Film S3702
Uno más uno. Holdings: Microfilm: 1980-2000. Call No: Film An Un6

Mexican Historical Newspapers

Nicaragua
Barricada. Holdings: Microfilm: 1979-1994. Call No: Film S1526
El Nuevo Diario. Holdings: Paper: 1996-1998. Microfilm: 1980-1995. Call No: Film An N89
La Prensa. Holdings: Paper: June 1986-present. Microfilm: 1965-1970; 1978-present. Call No: Film An P9194

Perú
El Comercio. Holdings: Microfilm: 1894-1912; 1925-present. Call No: Film An C734

Peruvian Historical Newspapers

Puerto Rico
San Juan Star. Holdings: Paper: Held for three years. Microfilm: 1959-present. Call No: Film An Sa525.
NB: The paper copies of this newspaper are shelved together with newspapers from US cities.

Uruguay
El Día. Holdings: Microfilm: 1970-1993. Call No: Film An D54

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World Wide Web Newspaper Gateways

For links to Latin American online newspapers, click here: Latin American News Sources
Listed below are links to U.S. and foreign newspapers currently available on the Internet.

Newspaper Databases and Indexes

This list includes full text newspapers available in electronic format as well as newspaper indexes. Lists of Yale's newspaper holdings are available at the SML Reference desk and in the Newspaper and Microform Reading Room in SML.

Academic Universe
Academic Universe is a full-text news and information service that provides access to newspapers, magazines, transcripts, business and legal information and much more.
Factiva
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.
EthnicNewswatch (Stamford, CT: Softline Information)
Indexes newspapers and periodicals published by ethnic and minority presses of the Americas.
Historical Newspapers Online (Alexandria, VA: Chadwyck-Healey)
Indexes to two newspapers: The Times (London) and The New York Times. Also available in print and CD-ROM.

Latin American Newspapers in United States Libraries; a union list
(Steven M. Charno. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, [1969]. 619 p.
SML, Starr Main Reference Rm / Z6947 L3 U53 (LC)
    Over 5,000 Latin American newspapers are listed by place of publication. Holdings of 70 libraries in the United States are reported.
World News Connection
Offers the latest two years worth of full text and summaries of newspaper articles, speeches, reports and broadcasts collected and translated by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service. Generally, the information in WNC is available within 48-72 hours from the time of the original publication or broadcast.
 
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