LibGuides: International Students Guide: Current and Historical Newspapers

Current Newspapers

A selection of our most requested current newspapers. Also available in print on the 2nd floor of Perry Library.

New York Times (Click the Factiva option for full text of current NYT articles. Then click "Modify Search" at right to search for a topic.)

Wall Street Journal, Eastern edition (through ProQuest)

Washington Post (Click the Factiva option for full text of current NYT articles. Then click "Modify Search" at right to search for a topic.)

The Virginian-Pilot (through Access World News)

Other Virginia News Sources (through Access World News)

Search Journals A-Z
Search Journals A-Z to find more current newspapers.

Databases to Search for Current News

The following are databases you can search to find current newspaper content. In some cases, you will get text only (no images, advertisements, or special sections).

Access World News
1996 - present (Restricted to ODU)
Provides unique coverage of local and regional newspapers, including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community, as well as a distinctive focus offering a variety of viewpoints on local and world issues.
Factiva
Coverage varies (Restricted to VIVA/ODU)
Provides current and retrospective news stories, periodical articles, and company and industry financial data covering virtually every subject category.
Nexis Uni
Varies (Restricted to ODU)
Lexis Nexis Academic has been up graded to Nexis Uni. Nexis Uni provides a more personalized experience, intuitive discovery, and a more collaborative research environment. Nexis Uni features news, business, and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790. Offers an intuitive, engaging research experience on a wide range of devices. Students can create individual user IDs and passwords to enable setting of Alerts, saving searches and bookmarking documents of interest.
MasterFILE Premier
1975 - present (Restricted to VIVA/ODU)
Provides access to general periodicals covering business, education, health, science,and more; reference books including the World Almanac & Book of Facts; biographies; primary source documents; Magill Book Reviews; as well as an image collection of photos, maps, and flags.
Newspaper Source Plus
Current (Restricted to VIVA/ODU)
Provides access to national and international newspapers, many cover-to-cover full-text. In addition, full-text television & radio news transcripts are provided from ABC News, CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, National Public Radio (NPR), etc.
Newswires
Current (Restricted to VIVA/ODU)
Real-time full text wire feed content from the Associated Press
EBSCO's Newswires provides near real-time access to top world-wide news from Associated Press, United Press International, PR Newswire, Xinhua, CNN Wire, and Business Wire on a continuous basis. This content is monitored by EBSCO and relevant results are provided when users enter searches in EBSCOhost. This collection includes AP Financial News, AP Top News, AP WorldStream, AP U.S. Politics & Government, AP 50 State Reports, UPI Security Industry, UPI Emerging Threats, UPI Business, UPI Entertainment, UPI Sports, UPI Top News, Arabia 2000, and more. End users can immediately access the full text of the web content, by following the link in the record. The index to the full text content in EBSCO Newswires is held for a rolling 30-day archive by EBSCO, so users can enjoy the previous 30 days of news relating to their search interests.
Regional Business News
Coverage varies (Restricted to VIVA/ODU)
Provides comprehensive full-text coverage of business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
World News Connection
1995-2013 (Restricted to ODU)
A service bringing news from around the world, translated into English, typically within 24-72 hours from the time of the original publication or broadcast. This information is collected and translated by and for the U.S. Government.

NewsLink
Identify hundreds of newspapers and news sources by location.
Online Newspapers
Online Newspaper Directory for the World

Historical Newspapers

Local Newspapers

Norfolk Journal and Guide
1916 - 2003 (Restricted to ODU)
Under the leadership of P.B. Young, the "Dean of the Negro Press", The Norfolk Journal and Guide became one of the best researched and written newspapers of its era, with a circulation of more than 80,000 by the 1940s. It argued against restrictive covenants, rallied against lynching, encouraged blacks to vote, supported improvements to city streets and water systems, and more.
Virginian Pilot Historical Archive
1865 – 1990 (Restricted to ODU)
The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA) archive contains fully searchable scanned page images from microfilm for The Virginian-Pilot (1865 - 1989). Content can also be accessed from Access World News.

The Virginian-Pilot
1990 - present online
all back issues in microfilm

National Newspapers

HarpWeek: The Civil War Era and Reconstruction
1857 - 1877 (Restricted to VIVA/ODU)
Provides full-image reproduction of Harper's Weekly and a very elaborate index to the magazine. Includes illustrations, cartoons, news, literature, editorials, and ads.
New York Times w/ Index
1851 - 2015 (Restricted to ODU)
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers, and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society, and events of the time. The Historical New York Times with Index (1851-1993) provides search capability using subject terms and topics for focused and targeted results in combination with searchable full text, full page, and article-level images from the Historical New York Times.
Wall Street Journal
1889 - 2010 (Restricted to ODU)
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
Washington Post
1877 - 2006 (Restricted to ODU)
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.

British Newspapers

Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2010
1888 - 2010 (Restricted to VIVA/ODU)
The complete searchable run of the world's most authoritative daily business newspaper. Every article and advertisement ever printed in the paper since 1888 can be searched and browsed. An essential, comprehensive and unbiased research tool for everyone studying public affairs, and economic and financial history of the last 120 years.
Illustrated London News Historical Archive
1842 - 2003 (Restricted to VIVA/ODU)
Contains the full facsimile run of the world's most iconic illustrated newspaper.
Sunday Times Historical Archive 1822-2016
1822 - 2016 (Restricted to VIVA/ODU)
The Sunday Times launched itself on the world on October 20, 1822, promising to instill "an invigorating spirit" in its readership, and uphold the freedom of the press against those "emperors, kings, and their ministers" who would stifle it. Since that first issue, the newspaper has consistently provided thoughtful analysis and commentary on the week`s news and society at large. Murder, theatre, sport and politics - all collide in its pages in an abundance of glorious narrative detail. In more than 800,000 pages, The Sunday Times Digital Archive is a gateway to the greatest crimes, careers and culture of the last 180 years.
The Times Digital Archive
1785 - 2014 (Restricted to VIVA/ODU)
Contains full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page from The Times of London, first published in 1785. All articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos are divided into categories to facilitate searching.
Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive
1902 - 2014 (Restricted to VIVA/ODU)
Offers comprehensive coverage of the latest and most important publications - in every subject, in several languages - as well as reviewing current theatre, cinema, music, and exhibitions. This is the essential companion for studying and researching literary activity and critical opinion makers of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Databases to Search for Historical News

Search Historical News Databases

The following are databases you can search to find historical newspaper content. In many cases, images and advertisements are available.

Gale NewsVault searches across nine of the databases listed in this section.

Gale Primary Sources
Coverage varies (Restricted to VIVA/ODU.
Search or browse across the following Gale historical newspaper and periodical collections: 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers, British Library Newspapers, Financial Times Historical Archive, Illustrated London News Historical Archive, Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers, Sunday Times Historical Archive, Times Digital Archive, and Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive.

North American

Accessible Archives
Coverage varies by database (Restricted to ODU)
Includes the following fulltext databases: Godey's Lady's Book, The Pennsylvania Gazette, The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective, African American Newspapers, The Pennsylvania Genealogical Catalogue: Chester County and The Pennsylvania Newspaper Record: Delaware County.
African-American Newspapers
1800s (Restricted to ODU)
Contains information about cultural life and history during the 1800s, with first-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day. Also included are large numbers of early biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, poetry, prose and advertisements, all of which embody the African-American experience.
America's Historical Newspapers
1690 - 1998 (Restricted to ODU)
Contains U.S. historical newspapers, including titles from all 50 present states. This collection is made up of eleven series of Early American Newspapers (Series I, 1690-1876; Series II, 1758-1900; Series III, 1829-1922; Series 4, 1756-1922; Series 5, 1777-1922; Series 6, 1741-1922; Series 7, 1773-1922; Series 8, 1844-1922; Series 9, 1832-1922; Series 10, 1730-1900; Series 11, 1803-1899), and African American Newspapers, 1827-1998.
Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective
1860 - 1865 (Restricted to ODU)
Contains articles from various 19th century newspapers on the Civil War.
Early American Newspapers Series 1-11
1690 - 1922 (Restricted to ODU)
Contains U.S. historical newspapers, including titles from all 50 present states. This collection is made up of eleven series. Series I, 1690-1876; Series II, 1758-1900; Series III, 1829-1922; Series 4, 1756-1922; Series 5, 1777-1922; Series 6, 1741-1922; Series 7, 1773-1922; Series 8, 1844-1922; Series 9, 1832-1922; Series 10, 1730-1900, and Series 11, 1803-1899. And also, includes African American Newspapers.
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers
19th Century (Restricted to VIVA/ODU)
With digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers and advanced searching capabilities, researchers will be able to research history in ways previously unavailable. For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Search five historical newspapers simultaneously: Atlanta Consititution (1868-1942); New York Times (1851-1993); Norfolk Journal and Guide (1916-2003); Wall Street Journal (1889-2000); Washington Post (1877-2000).

Other

17th - 18th Century Burney Newspapers Collection
1757 - 1817 (Restricted to VIVA/ODU)
Contains newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) representing the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media. The present digital collection, that helps chart the development of the concept of 'news' and 'newspapers' and the "free press", totals almost 1 million pages and contains approximately 1,270 titles.
19th Century British Library Newspapers
1800 - 1900 (Restricted to VIVA/ODU)
Contains full runs of 48 newspapers specially selected by the British Library to best represent nineteenth century Britain. This new collection includes national and regional newspapers, as well as those from both established country or university towns and the new industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing Midlands, as well as Scotland, Ireland and Wales.
British Library Newspapers
1600-1950 (Restricted to VIVA/ODU)
British Library Newspapers contains full runs of influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of British society.