Newspapers

Newspapers originate from countless localities and time periods. Some newspaper content is available openly online, by subscription, and in microfilm or special archives. This page points to a range of resources and search options that may help you search for specific articles, topics, and publications.

If you are doing a research project where you’d like to collect news content to analyze, or if you have other research questions, contact Cindy Levine.

Find newspaper articles

Discover aggregates over 1 billion articles from a wide range of sources. It is not comprehensive, but it can be useful when searching for a few newspaper articles on a given topic or when checking to see if a specific article is easily available online.

Find a newspaper by title

Use this search box to search for the title of a specific newspaper (for example, Boston Globe) to determine whether and how you can access it.

Popular newspapers

• The New York Times (current digital access)
  • For earlier content, use ProQuest Historical Newspapers' The New York Times
• Chronicle of Higher Education (current digital access)

U.S. national news

Major tools for news coverage with a focus on the United States:

• Newspaper Source Plus (Ebsco) Time coverage varies by newspaper, usually going back to the 1990s. Full text coverage for selected national, international, and regional newspapers, as well as transcripts from other news sources. Includes New York Times, Chicago Tribune, USA Today, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, and others.
• US Newsstream (ProQuest) Full-text access to major U.S. newspapers (including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA TODAY, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Guardian, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post and many others) from 1997 to the present.
• Nexis Uni Formerly called LexisNexis Academic, Nexis Uni provides access to news, legal, and business information. To find news articles, use the Search in All News box in the middle of the pages.
• Ethnic Newswatch A collection of full-text articles from newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press in America, with some international coverage.
• Editor & Publisher News Media Data Book Contact Information for U.S. Newspapers

North Carolina newspapers

Major tools for users seeking to find North Carolina newspapers, both current and historical:

• News and Observer This guide will explain options for research using the N&O.
• Newspapers.com.North Carolina Collection Selected digitized historical newspapers from North Carolina
• North Carolina Newspapers Part of DigitalNC, a statewide digitization program housed at UNC’s Wilson Special Collections Library. In it can be found many early North Carolina historical newspapers.
• North Carolina Newspapers at NC State University Libraries Catalog search for N.C. Newspapers at NC State University Libraries (microfilm and electronic access)
• North Carolina Newspaper Locator Microfilm housed at the Government & Heritage Library, State Library of North Carolina

Historical newspapers

Although some historical newspapers have been digitized and made openly available, many are only available via subscription and some are only in older formats such as microfilm. Key sources available to NC State researchers:

• New York Times (via Proquest Historical Newspapers) Time coverage: 1851 until about 5 years ago. Provides full text access to the New York Times.
• Los Angeles Times (via Proquest Historical Newspapers) Time coverage: 1881-1987.
• America's Historical Newspapers Extensive collection of colonial and early republic newspapers.
• Accessible Archives Selected major 18th and 19th century newspapers. To see the list of included newspapers, click on Documents, then Document type: Newspaper, then Series.
• Chronicling America Project of Library of Congress to provide access to selected historical newspapers in the United States
• Newspapers.com.North Carolina Collection
• NewspaperArchive Searchable database of selected historical newspapers dating back to the 1700s.
• The Times Digital Archive Historical access to The Times (London).
• Burney Collection, 17th - 18th Century Newspapers The Burney Newspapers are predominantly London newspapers of the 17th and 18th centuries. The titles range in date from 1603 to the early 1800s.
• Microfilm Newspapers By Region (Newspapers on microfilm at N.C. State University Libraries)
• Microfilm Newspapers By Title (Newspapers on microfilm at N.C. State University Libraries)
• Center for Research Libraries Enables long-term borrowing of some archival newspaper collections for research via Interlibrary Services

International Newspapers

These databases provide access to news from outside the United States:

• International Newsstream Mostly contemporary news content from outside of the U.S. and Canada with some older content.
• World News Connection Translated and English-language news and information from East and North Asia, Near and Middle East, and South Asia
• Nexis Uni Formerly called LexisNexis Academic, Nexis Uni provides access to news, legal, and business information. To find news articles, use the Search in All News box in the middle of the pages. This database includes both U.S. and international news content.

Open access newspaper content

These sites provide access to some of the newspapers that have been digitized and made freely available online. This is not comprehensive. To find a specific newspaper, a Google search may also help you determine if it’s openly available online.

• Elephind.com This federated search brings together content from multiple digital newspaper projects around the world
• Chronicling America Project of Library of Congress to provide digital access to selected historical newspapers in the United States
• Google News Archive Search Like Google Scholar, but newspapers/full-text