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UM Guide to Newspaper Resources

Licensed News Resources

LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe
Hundreds of news sources, governmental, and legal information. Also includes full text of the New York Times from June 1980 to the present and the Detroit News from April 1995 to the present. A guide to LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe (including a complete list of contents/holdings included in the database) is also available.

Proquest Full-Text Newspapers
This service provides online access to recent full-text articles (and citations to earlier articles) from the following newspapers:

   U.S.
  • Chicago Tribune [Indexing Only]
    Comprehensive citations and abstracts from 1/85, some back to 1974
  • Detroit News
    Citations and Abstracts from 1/89
    Comprehensive full-text from 1/95
    Currency: 2 days out
  • New York Times (East Coast Late Edition)
    Citations, abstracts from 8/22/86
    Full-text from last 90 days
    Currency: 1 day out
  • New York Times Magazine
    Citations, abstracts from 1/86
    Full-text last 90 days
  • New York Times Book Review
    Citations, abstracts from 1/86
    Full-text from 9/97
  • Washington Post
    Citations, abstracts from 2/88
    Full-text from 12/97
    Currency: 3 days out
  • Wall Street Journal
    Citations, abstracts from 1/85
    Comprehensive full-text from 1/95, though many articles in full-text back to early 1980's.
    Currency: 2 days out
   International
  • International Herald Tribune
    Citations, abstracts, full-text from 12/97
    Currency: 4 days out
  • Jerusalem Post
    Citations, abstracts, full-text from 12/97
    Currency: 6 days out
  • South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)
    Citations, abstracts, full-text from 1/11/95
    Currency: 2 days out
  • The Statesman (New Delhi)
    Citations, abstracts, full-text from 12/17/97
    Currency: 6 days out
  • The Times (London)
    Citations, abstracts, full-text from 1/1/95
    Currency: 7 days out

Currency of the files ranges from one day to one week after the publication date, (the New York Times file is one day later, the International Herald-Tribune is a week later). The time span of available full-text records varies with the file, from the rolling 90 day limit in the New York Times file to several years for other files. Availability of article abstracts and citations ranges from two years to ten years of back issues depending on the newspapers selected. Searches can be performed in selected files simultaneously and records can be saved, printed, or e-mailed.

New York Times
Full-text available from 1851 to the present.

World News Connection
World News Connection (WNC) contains the full text summaries of international newspaper articles, conference proceedings, radio and television broadcasts, periodicals and non-classified technical reports.

DIALOG
DIALOG Bluesheet: News - Newspaper Indexes
DIALOG Bluesheet: News - U.S. Newspapers Fulltext
DIALOG Bluesheet: News - Worldwide News

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Guides to Free Newspaper Websites

Newslink
3600+ newspapers, including campus papers, organized by type of coverage. Put out by the American Journalism Review (AJR).

Newspapers Online
Links to thousands of online newspapers of all kinds.

Internet Public Library Online Newspapers Collection
The IPL maintains an extensive listing of national and international online newspapers.

Directories -- Electronic Journal Sites
A useful collection of online resources that contains links to online newspapers and other news resources.

Electronic Journals and Newspapers
Just as the name implies, this is a very complete alphabetical listing of electronic journals and news resources.

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Selected News Service Sites for Breaking News

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Online Indexes to Newspapers

Access World News (NewsBank) (1982 - )
Full text of over 600 US newspapers and over 260 English language newspapers from other countries worldwide. Includes New York Times (2000- ), Detroit Free Press (1982- ), Detroit News (1999- ), Chicago Tribune (1985- ), The Times (London), etc.

NewsLibrary
Indexing for over 90 U.S. newspapers. Includes indexing to the Detroit Free Press from 1982.

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CD-ROM Resources

Newsbank (In Serials/Microforms Services)
The following newspapers are available full-text 1992-1998 (subscription cancelled 8/98) through Newsbank:

  • Atlanta Journal/Constitution
  • Boston Globe
  • Chicago Tribune
  • Christian Science Monitor
  • Dallas Morning News
  • Detroit News
  • Los Angeles Times
  • Newsday New York
  • Washington Post

Broadcast News (available on CD-ROM in Serials/Microforms Services)
A fully searchable reference database providing full-text transcripts for 1995, 1997 - of all news programs of ABC, CNN, NPR, and PBS.

Chicano Database (1965 - ) (Available in the IC Area on CD-ROM)
Citations and abstracts to newspaper articles and other resources written by and about Chicanos and other Latinos in the United States.

Ethnic Newswatch (1990 - ) (Available in the IC Area on CD-ROM)
Contains the complete text of more than 95,000 articles, editorials, and reviews published in approximately 100 ethnic and minority newspapers, magazines, and journals published in the United States. Provides multicultural coverage of subjects of interest to African Americans, Hispanics, Latinos, Chicanos, Native Americans, Asian, Jewish, Arab, and European Americans. Includes a directory providing bibliographic information for each publication covered.

Women 'R' (1982 - ) (Available in the IC on CD-ROM)
Women 'R' is a full text collection of the periodicals, academic journals, newletters, magazines, regional publications and government reports focused on issues that affect women. Women 'R' provides in-depth coverage of the wide range of subjects that impact and reflect the lives of women and society in general.

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Other Useful Links

University of Michigan Searchtools
Various electronic resources including some newspapers and some full-text.

Political Science Resources -- News Media
Produced by the Documents Center, this comprehensive site provides links to many foreign and US media resources related to political science.

Graduate Library Information Center News links
Check out the "News" Virtual Reference Library of the Information and Reference Center for current news links.

Center for Research Libraries (CRL)
Search CRL's Databases and gain access to holdings of foreign and ethnic newspapers.

Internet Resources -- Newspapers
The Library of Congress has a useful set of news-related links.

NewJour
Not directly news-related, but a very useful source for finding electronic journals and newsletters. This might be useful for acquiring further information on recent topics of interest.

Subject Resource Guides
A collection of links to resources in various disciplines, many of which have links to electronic journals and news sources. For example, the Latin America Resources Guide has several useful links to online news sources from Latin America.

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Paper and Local Resources

The vast majority of newspapers to which UM subscribes are kept on microfilm in the Serials and Microforms Dept. (2 South Hatcher). Paper copies of the newspapers are kept until the microfilm is received. Complete UM holdings of various newspaper titles can be checked in MCAT.

A list of major newspaper indexes held in paper by the Graduate Library is as follows:

  • Index to Black Newspapers (1977-1986) [AI3 .I417]
  • Chicago Tribune (1972 - )
  • Christian Science Monitor (1945 - )
  • Detroit News (1976 - )
  • Los Angeles Times (1972 - )
  • New York Times (1851 - ) [last 50 yrs. in Ref.]
  • The Times (London) (Ref. Room: 1975 - ) (FILM X254: 1785 - )
  • Washington Post (1971 - )

Other items of note for resources relating to local news:

  • Ann Arbor District Library has a full-text CD-ROM for the Detroit Free Press.
  • There is a clippings files for the Ann Arbor News accessible at the Ann Arbor District Library. There is no indexing available for the AAN.
  • The Michigan Daily offices maintain a clippings file for the Michigan Daily.
  • "Michigan newspapers on microfilm" is available in the Reference Room (Z6952.M6 M64 1985).

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