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Research Guides > General > Newspaper Research
The URL for this page is http://www.gwu.edu/gelman/guides/general/newspaperresearch.html Best Places to StartCheck the following databases for national and international newspapers: National and International newspapers, as well as industry news sources, wire services and transcripts of television and radio news programs. Global newspapers, business and financial news (including stock quotes), and company information. International newspapers and wire services. Current NewspapersIn addition to the top three databases, the following databases cover current news: Also, try these databases: Daily compendium of international transcripts translated into English, from 1995 to the present. Newspapers, journals and magazines published by the native and minority press. Searchable in both English and Spanish. Full-text articles from the WSJ from 1984 to the present. If you need a copy of an article exactly as it ran in the paper, and a PDF is not available electronically, Gelman Library does subscribe to print editions of some national and international papers. Search for titles in the ALADIN Catalog under Journal Title. The print or microfiche may available.
To see what's available at Gelman or Eckles, limit your location to George Washington. Look at the record for your newspaper to see what's available in the library.
Historical Newspapers
The following databases are useful in finding newspapers printed prior to the later part of the 20th Century: A collection of national newspapers published from 1690 to 1876. Access to Washington Post archives, as PDF files, from 1877 to 1990. Access to the New York Times archives, as PDF files, from 1851 to 2003. Access to the influential African American newspaper, from the first issue in 1905 to 1975. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers A beta project from the Library of Congress, provides newspapers from 1900 to 1910 and information about specific newspapers from 160- to the present.
How to find newspaper indexes Use a newspaper index to find articles for issues of titles that are not available electronically. For example, say you are looking for an article on Prohibition in Chicago, but you need an article published in the 1920s; and, you want to find something that might have run in the Chicago Tribune. The best way to do that would be to find an index for the Trib. Use the ALADIN Catalog to locate. Here's an example using the Chicago Tribune Index:
Places to go for Newspaper ResearchSome types of newspaper research might require you to go off campus. We're quite lucky that other libraries in Washington DC have extensive historical newspaper collections: Library of Congress Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room The LOC's Newspaper and Current Periodicals Reading Room is the best place in DC (and, perhaps, the country) for newspaper research. Holdings include 9,000 national titles over three centuries, and over 25,000 non-US titles. Visit this page for more information on the collection. Note: patrons must have a Library of Congress Reader's Card for access to the collection (a painless, same-day creation of a photo ID that requires users to be 18y.o.) Martin Luther King Memorial Library MLK Library is the main branch of DC's public library system, and has an extensive print collection of local newspapers, as well as national and international papers. |
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