Print Newspapers @ the Library

Dailies

Daily Collegian (latest 6 months)
Daily Local News (latest 3 months on shelf)
Investor's Business Daily (latest 3 months on shelf)
New York Times (latest 3 months on shelf; 1988 to date on microfiche)
Philadelphia Inquirer (latest 2 months on shelf)
Wall Street Journal (latest 3 months; 1988 to date on microfiche)

Weeklies are located on the black rack near the circulation desk

Advertising Age
B to B - "The Magazine for Marketing Strategists"
Barron's - "The Dow Jones Business and Financial Weekly"
The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Chronicle of Higher Education Career Network
The Chronicle of Higher Education Review
Philadelphia Business Journal

Magazines are located in the Periodicals section in call number order.

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Databases

These databases are available through the Databases by title (A-Z list). They provide access to local, national, and international newspapers.

For more detailed information go to the News and Microforms Library at http://www.libraries.psu.edu/newsandmicroforms/

Current News Sources

LEXIS-NEXIS (formerly Academic Universe )

Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information.

ProQuest Direct (1989-to present)

Indexes articles and provides the full text of 25+ national, regional, financial, and ethnic newspapers, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post .

NewsBank Full-Text Newspapers

A collection of the full-text archives of newspapers and news wire services in the United States and Canada, including The Philadelphia Inquirer (1981-present) and the Philadelphia Daily News (1978-present).

Historical News Sources

Accessible Archives

Full text of articles from a selection of 18th & 19th century American newspapers.

Centre Daily Times Index (1981-2002)

Created at Penn State University Park, this selective database primarily indexes local news articles .

NewsBank Full-Text Newspapers

A collection of the full-text archives of newspapers and news wire services in the United States and Canada, including The Philadelphia Inquirer (1981-present) and the Philadelphia Daily News (1978-present).

Newspaper Photos

An average of 800 state, regional, national and international photos are added daily to the AP Photo Archives. After a year, approximately 200 of the best daily photos are retained permanently.  Features images from significant news and events of the 20th century. The earliest photograph available is a one of Abraham Lincoln taken in 1844.

New York Times Historical (1851-1999)

Includes a digitized image of every backfile issue of The New York Times from cover to cover, including news stories, editorials, photos, graphics, and advertisements.

Penn State Libraries Microforms Collection

This site provides searching of about 500 newspapers arranged alphabetically, chronologically and geographically.

ProQuest (1986-1998)

Coverage includes selective full text coverage of: Barrons, New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal.

Times of London, Palmer's Index (1790-1905)

Contains records from the 461 printed volumes of Palmer's Index to the London Times newspaper. Articles can be located by broad subject headings, date of publication, or title keywords. Obituaries are under the heading "Deaths."

International News Sources

Ethnic NewsWatch (Proquest)

Ethnic NewsWatch (ENW) is a comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.

Ethnic Press - (Center for Research Libraries)

Foreign Newspapers - (Center for Research Libraries)

Russian Newspapers

Full-text files of over 30 of the Russian newspapers are accessible online for browsing, searching and analyzing. Includes some English language papers.

World News Connection

World News Connection® (WNC) contains full-text translated summaries from the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports for the following materials: newspaper articles, conference proceedings, radio and television broadcasts, periodicals and non-classified technical reports.

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News on the Web

Penn State Online Reference Resources
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/gateway/referenceshelf/news.htm

Google News
http://news.google.com/

Islamic & Arabic Media
http://www.library.yale.edu/neareast/neareastern3.html#newsmedia

Online Newspapers
http://onlinenewspapers.com

The University of Texas at Austin Online Library - News and Newspapers
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/news/

World Newspapers
http://www.world-newspapers.com

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