Research Guides: Journalism: Newspapers

Newspapers

You can search or browse articles from individual newspapers by searching by the newspaper's title in the catalog. You can also search across multiple newspapers at once by searching in a newspaper database. The tabs in this box include suggested databases for different types of newspapers.

Access World News Research Collection This link opens in a new window
Access World News: Research Collection includes thousands of U.S. and global news sources. Content includes newspapers, magazines, broadcast transcripts, newswires, news videos and journalist-written blogs.
Factiva [Selected Articles in Full Text] This link opens in a new window
Factiva provides global content, including Dow Jones and Reuters Newswires and The Wall Street Journal.
Global Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Large collection of news from the US, Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Australia, from 1980s to present.
International Newsstand This link opens in a new window
International Newsstand provides information from hundreds of major global newspapers.
Newspaper Source [Selected Articles in Full Text] This link opens in a new window
Provides full text for 245 regional U.S. newspapers, eighteen international newspapers, six newswires, and nine newspaper columns, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Los Angeles Times (for a total of 194 full text newspapers and other sources).
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
US and international news sources, including newspapers, broadcast transcripts, and trade publications, from mid-1970s - present.
PressDisplay This link opens in a new window
Offers current issues of newspapers in the original form from all over the world.
Newspapers.com World Collection This link opens in a new window
Newspapers.com is an extensive database that provides online access to 4,000+ historical newspapers. Dating from the 1690-present, Newspapers.com contains full runs and portions of runs of well-known, regional and state titles to small local newspapers in the United States and other countries.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers [Full Text] This link opens in a new window
This database offers full text including images for several prominent newspapers from the 19th and 20th centuries, together in a searchable interface. Coverage includes:
- The Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988)
- Chicago Defender (1910-1975)
- Chicago Tribune (1849-1987)
- Cleveland Call and Post (1934-1991)
- Los Angeles Times (1881-1987)
- New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993)
- The New York Times (1851-2007) with Index (1851-1993)
- Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002)
- The Times of India (1838-2001)
- The Washington Post (1877-1994)
- Wall Street Journal (1889-1995)
America's Historical Newspapers [Selected Articles in Full Text] This link opens in a new window
Features cover-to-cover reproductions of hundreds of historic newspapers, providing more than one million pages as fully text-searchable facsimile images. For students and scholars of early America, this unique collection offers an unprecedented look back into the extraordinary history of the United States -- the story of her people, ideals, commerce and everyday life.
Times Digital Archive (London) [Selected Articles in Full Text] This link opens in a new window
Facsimile reproductions of pages of the Times of London. An InfoMark icon at the top of a page indicates that the URL is not session-dependent and can be bookmarked or copied for later use.
Amateur Newspapers from the American Antiquarian Society This link opens in a new window
The Amateur Newspaper collection at the American Antiquarian Society consists of about 50,000 issues. There are more than 5,500 titles, from every state except Alaska and Hawaii, thus making the Society's holdings among the largest and most extensive in the United States.
Newspapers.com World Collection This link opens in a new window
Newspapers.com is an extensive database that provides online access to 4,000+ historical newspapers. Dating from the 1690-present, Newspapers.com contains full runs and portions of runs of well-known, regional and state titles to small local newspapers in the United States and other countries.

African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 This link opens in a new window
African American Newspapers provides online access to approximately 270 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience.

ProQuest Historical Black Newspapers
This database offers full text including images for several African-American newspapers from the 20th century, together in a searchable interface. Coverage includes:
Atlanta Daily World
The Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988)
Chicago Defender (1910-1975)
Cleveland Call and Post (1934-1991)
Los Angeles Sentinel
New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993)
Norfolk Journal and Guide
Philadelphia Tribune
Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002)

Black Studies Center This link opens in a new window
Black Studies Center is a fully cross-searchable gateway to black studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, and reference books. Newspaper coverage includes:
Atlanta Daily World
Baltimore Afro-American
Chicago Defender
Cleveland Call and Post
Daily Defender
Los Angeles Sentinel
New York Amsterdam News
Norfolk New Journal and Guide
Philadelphia Tribune
Pittsburgh Courier

Alternative Press Index [Selected articles in full text] This link opens in a new window
Alternative Press Index (API) is a bibliographic database of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from over 300 international alternative, radical, and left periodicals. Born of the New Left, the API was launched in 1969 to provide access to the emerging theories and practices of radical social change.

Independent Voices
Independent Voices is a digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.

Ethnic NewsWatch [Selected Articles in Full Text] This link opens in a new window
Ethnic NewsWatch is a full text database of newspapers published by and for leading American ethnic groups, and provides information on topics not covered by the mainstream press. Additionally, it provides ethnic perspectives of topics of national interest that may vary from what is presented in the mainstream press.

The Columbus Dispatch
Online access to the Dispatch from 1985-present. Earlier issues can be found on microform in Thompson Library.

Columbus News Index This link opens in a new window
The Columbus News Index is an index of news articles covering people, places, and events in Franklin County and its surrounding counties. The index includes abstracts only of selected articles from 1960-1997. It also includes obituaries from 1931-1997.

Newspapers: Selected Collections
Newspaper collections categorized by region/country. Includes historical and current newspapers.

Other Newspaper Resources

Newseum Front Pages
Shows the daily front page of nearly 1000 newspapers. The site also offers archives of front pages on dates of historic significance (ex: 9/11).
Newspapers Subject Guide
Information about the OSU Libraries Newspapers Collection and additional resources and tips for finding newspaper articles.
Full list of newspaper resources in the OSU Libraries catalog

OSU Student News Publications

The OSU Lantern Digital Archives features every issue of the Ohio State University student newspaper published from its founding in January 1881 to April 2015.

Current issues of The Lantern are available at http://www.thelantern.com.

Black X Bold is an online magazine established "to bring a voice to the Black community at Ohio State and the greater Columbus area by uplifting and empowering underrepresented voices" (Who We Are). It publishes reporting about campus, culture, opinion, poetry, and multimedia.

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