Newspapers are important valuable resources and can be primary sources. If you know the particular day an event happened you may go directly to the newspaper. To get articles about a specific subject, use indexes or databases.
New York Times Full
Text Articles from 1851 - 2002
Los Angeles Times Full Text Articles from 1881 - 2002
Chicago Tribune Full Text Articles from 1849 - 1985
National Newspapers
Full text articles mid 1980 - present from nine national newspapers mainly from
east coast. Does include LA Times.
Las Vegas Review Journal
http://www.library.unlv.edu/collections/newspap.php 1990 - present. Full text articles.
Las Vegas Age
http://digital.lvccld.org/lvage.html Full complete digital images of the Las Vegas Age newspaper digitized from the print copies from the Special Collections of the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District. Search by date or by keyword or browse page images. (Covering period: 1905-1915, 1917-1922, 1924.)
Academic Universe
US national and regional newspapers. Great source for international newspapers.
See source list. Coverage varies but most of these newspapers are not indexed
prior to 1969. Many articles are available full-text.
Newspaper Source Selected
recent full text articles from over 240 newspapers and other sources.
Civil War: A Newspaper
Perspective
Selected fulltext articles.
Ethnic NewsWatch Full
text articles from ethnic, minority and native presses. Offers additional viewpoints
from mainstream publications. 1990 - present.
Newspaper Indexes List
of paper copy indexes available in Lied Library.
US Newspapers http://www.library.unlv.edu/collections/micro/newsshrt.html
Listing of US newspaper titles available on microfilm.
Nevada Newspapers
http://www.library.unlv.edu/collections/micro/nevnews/index.html Listing of Nevada newspaper
titles on microfilm and references to indexes.
International Newspapers
http://www.library.unlv.edu/collections/micro/inte.html Listing of international newspaper
titles available on microfilm.
Connect to New York Times http://www.library.unlv.edu/collections/newspap.php
Complete front page to back page coverage of the New York Times, including news, ads, obituaries, reviews, editorials, legal notices, comics, and photographs. The New York Times Index is the only newspaper index at Lied Library that goes back to 1851. This index can be used to cross reference dates and articles that may have appeared in other newspapers. For example: If you found an article in the New York Times on July 7, 1921, then look at that date or the week of that date (July 7 - 14, 1921) in other regional newspapers for similar articles.
Connect to Los Angeles Times http://www.library.unlv.edu/collections/newspap.php
The Los Angeles Times (1881-1984) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
Connect to Chicago Tribunehttp://www.library.unlv.edu/collections/newspap.php
The Chicago Tribune (1849-1985) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
Connect to National Newspapers http://www.library.unlv.edu/collections/newspap.php
Articles from: The New York Times, The LA Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlanta Constitution, The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, and USATODAY. The LA Times and Chicago Tribune must be selected separately from the list of databases per publisher agreement. Select View titles for years covered of each newspaper in this database.
Connect to Academic Universe http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe.
Select news to get into the newspaper component of this database. Provides access to news articles to newspapers along with wire services, broadcast transcripts, and magazines. This database also contains information about legal and business research, business, medical and legal journal articles; facts about countries and states; world almanac; quotations; and biographical information.
Connect to Newspaper Source http://www.library.unlv.edu/search/eralpha.php #N
Includes cover-to-cover full text for USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Times (London), as well as selected full text articles from more than 180 regional newspapers including: Boston Globe, Detroit Free Press, Houston Chronicle, Miami Herald, San Jose Mercury News, etc. Full text transcripts are also included from Face the Nation, CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, 60 Minutes, O'Reilly Factor, Hannity & Colmes, National Public Radio, and more.
Connect to Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective. http://www.accessible.com/search/prdcls.asp?s=953020609
Selected fulltext articles from over 2500 issues of the New York Herald, the Charleston Mercury and Richmond Enquirer published from November, 1860 - Mid-April 1865.
Connect to Ethnic NewsWatch http://enw.softlineweb.com/
Comprehensive collection of newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press. Includes articles, editorials, and reviews. Articles appear in either English or Spanish and may be searched in the language of the article. Select publication name to see entire list.
Available in Lied Library.
New York Times Index. 1851 to present.
Los Angles Times Index. 1972 - present.
Wall Street Journal. 1960 - present.
Washington Post. 1971 - present.
Christian Science Monitor. From 1960 - May 1985. Must be requested from LASR storage.
London Times. Palmer's Index to the Times 1790 - 1941
London Times Annual Index 1942 - 1966 on microfilm (call number AN4 .T56). Available in the Microforms Area of Research and Information on the second floor in the Library.
Times London Index 1967 - present
U.S. History
Utah Digital Newspapers. Over 25 nineteenth and twentieth century historical Utah newspapers. The University of Utah . http://www.lib.utah.edu/digital/unews/
Colorado Historic Newspaper Collection. Over 54 Nineteenth and early twentieth century newspapers. Colorado State Library. http://www.cdpheritage.org/newspapers/index.html
School newspaper from Southern Arizona (1932 - 34), Little Cowpuncher. University of Arizona . http://cowpuncher.library.arizona.edu/index.htm
Brooklyn Daily Eagle from 1841-1902. Brooklyn Public Library. http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/eagle/
Georgia Historic Newspapers. Several Georgia newspapers published between 1750 and 1925. http://neptune3.galib.uga.edu/ssp/cgi-bin/ftaccess.cgi?galileo_server=mars.libs.uga.edu&galileo_server_port=80&galileo_server_id=M&instcode=publ&instname=Guest&helpuserid=galileo&style=default&_id=83d8a4dd-1097712768-2406&dbs=ZLGN
World History
Britain
The British Library. Five newspapers from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. http://www.bl.uk/collections/newspapers.html
Canada
Alberta Canada's History including newspapers from 1885 - 2002. These newspapers are view by date only. http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/newspapr/
Canadian Illustrated News from 1869 - 1883. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/cin/
Canadian Newspapers from 1885 - 1999, over 22 Special Editions. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/2/14/index-e.html
New Zealand
Over 30 Nineteenth Century New Zealand Newspapers and Periodicals. National Library of New Zealand . http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/
