Newspapers as a research tool
Digitized newspapers
Growing out of the United States Newspaper Program (USNP), an effort led by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC) to identify, gather and microfilm newspapers published in the US, the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) is a partnership between the NEH, LC and individual states to provide free online access to historic United States newspapers. Utah's contribution takes the form of Utah Digital Newspapers, headquartered here at the Marriott Library. The central access point is Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, at the Library of Congress. Similar projects are under way in many other countries, noteworthy among them: France,
New York Times
Find a hard copy
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Current papers are available free to U-card holders from the Campus Readership Service newspaper boxes on campus.
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The most recent two weeks of the New York TImes are available at the Marriott Library in Current Periodicals. This area is just south of the Fine Arts Library on Level 2.
Find it online
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New York Times Historical NewspaperThis database provides access to the searchable text of the New York Times from 1851-2009. Many parts of the text besides the articles themselves are also searchable, including short items like stock quotes, broadcast schedules, display and classified ads. Articles can be displayed in their page context and one can read through an issue page by page.
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US NewsstreamThis database contains the full text of many U.S. and international news sources. The collection includes coverage of major U.S. and international newspapers such as The New York Times and The Times of London, plus hundreds of other news sources and news wires. Also includes archives for the Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News.
Wall Street Journal
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Wall Street Journal Historical NewspaperThis database provides access to a full-image archive of the Wall Street Journal. Every issue from 1889-1995 is included and features the complete paper cover-to-cover with full page and article images in PDF form.
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ProQuest News & NewspapersIncludes Databases: Ethnic NewsWatch, GenderWatch, Global Newsstream, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Times, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times, and ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Wall Street Journal.
Los Angeles Times Archive
How do I read my paper if its on microform?
Databases for U.S. Newspapers
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Chronicling America: Historic American NewspapersAccess to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages, and is produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program. (Library of Congress)
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Newspaper SourceNewspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 national (U.S.) and international newspapers
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Nexis UniNexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis with an intuitive interface that offers discovery across all content types.
