Newspapers: General Resources

Starting Points

Newspaper Source Plus

Newspaper Source Plus provides cover-to-cover full text for 149 national & international newspapers and selective full text for 410 U.S newspapers.

Articles & eResources

LexisNexis Academic

Palmer's Full Text Online

Palmer's Full Text Online gives students and researchers access to approximately one million articles from The Times®; covering almost a century of British and world history.

New York Times Archive

Using the Library Catalog

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To find a specific newspaper in Randall Library, search the library catalog. Click on Journal Title and enter the name of the newspaper you're looking for. If the library has the title, the library record will tell you all the ways you can obtain the newspaper (print, microform, online).

Books & Library Materials

Randall Library subscribes to the following major newspapers in paper format. Some of the titles are also available online or on microfilm. Current paper copies are located in the library's coffee shop area.

Al-Ahram weekly

Atlanta constitution

Barron's

Christian Science monitor

Chronicle of Higher Education

Le Monde

New York Times

The News & Observer

Star-News (Wilmington, NC)

Village Voice

Wall Street Journal

Washington Post

Websites

The links provided on this page are "gateway" sites for newspapers on the Internet. They are sites that provide links to dozens or hundreds of newspapers, searchable by region or category.

Many newspapers have their own websites. To find a specific newspaper on the Internet, go to any search engine and simply type in the title.

Many newspapers' websites offer some free articles. Most, however, do not allow users to access articles older than a week or two without a paid subscription. For older articles, use one of the library's newspaper databases.

BlackPressUSA.com

A comprehensive guide to the world's English-language online media. Currently over 8,000 newspapers and magazines are listed, as well as more than 1,000 U.S. television broadcasters. Searchable. Newspapers are also browsable geographically (including by U.S. state, zip code, and city) and magazines geographically and by subject. Also has a list of newspapers with searchable archives and links to all the organizations that provide breaking news. Formerly Ecola Newsstand.

Newseum - The Interactive Museum of News

NewsLink

The resource for online newspapers around the world. The newspapers section lists around 5,400 papers and is searchable by title or location and is also indexed geographically. In addition the U.S. papers are indexed by state, frequency of publication, and publication category. There are links to magazines, broadcasters, and news services worldwide. There is a separate section for campus newspapers. Also has many sources for journalists, including a database of job listings.

North Carolina Newspapers

Guide to NC newspapers from ECU's Joyner Library.

North Carolina Community Newspapers

Guide to community newspapers from Duke University Libraries.

IPL Newspapers Collection

This directory of online newspapers is browsable by geographic region. In addition to a link to the site, language, publisher, and frequency are given for each entry. If available, features of the paper are also listed. Searchable. Maintained by the Internet Public Library.

SmallTownPapers

This site provides access to scanned images of recent issues of dozens of small town newspapers from throughout the United States. " Newspapers are updated periodically, 2-3 weeks after publication." The site also includes a searchable archive (of articles, photos, and advertisements), which covers different periods for each paper, some as far back as the 1890s. Access to the archives requires free registration.

NewsVoyager

Provides links to websites of newspapers in the United States. Browsable by geographic area, type of newspaper, and section of newspaper. Includes links to Canadian, international, and college newspapers.

Other information

Newspaper Indexes (paper) in Randall Library

Title	Dates Covered	Location
Barron's Index	1981-1996	UNCW Index Collection HG1 .W26
Christian Science Monitor Index	1960-69; 1970-78; 1979-1983	UNCW Index Collection AI21 .C462
The Chronicle of Higher Education 10-year Index	November 23, 1966 to August 16, 1976	UNCW Index Collection LA227.3 .C48
Morning Star (Wilmington, NC)--Index to the seventh volume)	Sept. 23, 1870-Mar. 22, 1871	UNCW Index Collection AI21.M67 R42 1995
New York Times Index	1851-2002	UNCW Index Collection AI21 .N45
News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) Index	1967-1973; 1975-1976	UNCW Index Collection AI21 .N53
North Carolina Newspapers Index	1784-1789	UNCW Reference F258 .W37 1992
Personal Name Index to "The New York Times Index"	1851-1989	UNCW Index Collection AI21 .N46
Pravda Index	1987	UNCW Index Collection AI21.P73 P7
Semi-Weekly Messenger (Wilmington, NC) Index	1905-1906	UNCW Index Collection AI21.W55 R444 1989
The Times (London) Index	1785. Includes indexing of the predecessor of the Times, the Daily universal register, 1785-1787	UNCW Index Collection AI21 .T45
The Times (London) Index	1801-1925; 1940-1956; 1957-1972	UNCW Index Collection AI21 .T458
Virginia Gazette Index	1736-1780	UNCW Microfilm Guides AI21 .V5
Wall Street Journal Index	1970-current	UNCW Index Collection HG1 .W26
The Wilmington Messenger Index	June-December 1887; 1889	UNCW Index Collection AI21.W55 R44
The Early South Carolina Newspapers	1732-1736	UNCW Index Collection AN1.S6 C422

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Newspapers: General Resources

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