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News
and Newspapers
See also
News Resources
First determine
the title and date of publication of the newspaper. These guides will
help:
Brigham,
Clarence Saunders. History and Bibliography of American Newspapers,
1690-1820. Worchester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1947.
Many of the newspapers listed and discussed in this work are available
on microfilm in the Early
American Newspapers Collection shelved in the Microform Reading
Room.
SML, Reference Z6951 +B75.
Online
American
Newspapers, 1821-1936: A Union List of Files Available in the
United States and Canada. Ed. Winifred Gregory. New York: H.W.
Wilson, 1967.
SML, Card Catalog Reference Shelf Z6945 A48 1967. Also in SML, Andrews
Study
Newspapers
on Microform: United States, 1948-1983. Washington, DC:
Library or Congress, 1984.
SML, Catalog Reference Desk Z6951 +U469. Also in SML, Reference, Microform
Reading Room.
To determine
if Yale University Libraries own a particular newspaper, first check
Orbis, the online catalog.
Then check this database:
Newspaper
Holdings of the Yale University Library is a record of Yale
Library holdings of newspapers in microform. This list does not include
all of the newspapers to be found in the original, in reprints, or
in facsimile in the SML stacks, in the Mudd Library, or in the Beinecke,
though it does contain some of this material. Neither does it include
all of the Underground Newspaper Collection (Film S618). It
does include bound newspapers with a delta classification.
If we
do not have a particular newspaper, you may be able able borrow it
from another library via interlibrary loan. Check the Center
for Research Libraries (CRL), Eureka,
WorldCat,
and/or Borrow
Direct.
Few newspapers
have published indexes. Check Orbis
to determine what is available. Here are a few online newspaper indexes
and fulltext databases.
New
York Times Index
Print versions
SML, Reference, Index Case AI21 +N43 (1851-1945)
Microtext Center, AI21 +N43 (1946-present)
Accessible
Archives provides a collection of American newspapers from the
18th & 19th Century. Areas covered include the Colonial Period, the
French & Indian War, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, African-American
History, Industrial Revolution, and Genealogy.
A few newspapers
and newsletters are available online. Below are a few databases that
offer full-text online editions of these publications:
Academic
Universe provides full-text news and information service: access
to newspapers, magazines, transcripts, business and legal information
and much more.
Factiva
contains full-text of the Wall Street Journal and other business news.
Ethnic
NewsWatch indexes newspapers and periodicals published by ethnic
and minority presses of the Americas.
Keesings
Records of World Events provides international news reports and
resources to communicate with leaders around the world. Since 1931
Keesing's Record of World Events has provided objectively written
news reports covering every significant event. Keesing's Record of
World Events Online Archive consists of contemporary world history
with original international news reports. Since 1758, The Annual Register
has provided the authoritative history of each year's events worldwide
by experts on every country and subject. Keesing's Directories cover
world leaders, including contact information, detailed profiles and
state structures.
Selected
online resources for current Latino news:
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