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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.
Alt-Press
Watch is a full text database of the newspapers, magazines
and journals of the alternative and independent press.
Alternative
Press Index and Alternative Press Index Archive is
a guide to the alternative press in North America.
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.
Left
Index is a guide to the literature on the left,
with a primary emphasis on political, economic, social and culturally engaged
scholarship inside and outside academia. A secondary emphasis is on significant
but little known sources of news and ideas. Topics covered include the labor
movement, ecology & environment, race & ethnicity, social &
cultural theory, sociology, art & aesthetics, philosophy, history, education,
law, and globalization.
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