The following databases provide access to up to date news from US and International News Outlets. For more information, check out the News and News Sources Subject Guide.
Access World News includes the full text of hundreds of U.S. and foreign newspapers and news sources:
Alt-PressWatch showcases unique, independent voices from around 140 grassroots newspapers, magazines, and journals — big stories from small sources. Coverage of the news for those seeking an alternative to mainstream, corporate-controlled media. Examples of sources included: Commonweal, Earth Island Journal, Fifth Estate, The Independent Review, Mother Earth News, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, and Skeptic.
Global Newsstream provides full text from over 1,000 newspapers and newswire services from around the world, but predominantly the U.K. and the U.S. Includes access to U.S. newspapers in ProQuest US Newsstream as well as international news sources such as The Daily Mirror (United Kingdom), El Norte (Mexico), La Monde (France), The Star (South Aftica), Sunday News (New Zealand), Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), The Times of India, The Windsor Star (Canada). Die Welt (Germany), and much more.
PBS NewsHour was the nation's first hour-long nightly broadcast of national news and has received virtually every significant award for quality television and outstanding journalism. PBS NewsHour includes full episodes of shows, podcasts, and transcripts as far back as 1996.
POLITICO Pro is a current news resource covering the U.S. government and politics. Content consists of articles, documents (including Congressional Dear Colleague Letters), and infographics.
US Newsstream includes up-to-date news from more than 400 news sources, including blogs, magazines, newspapers, podcasts, trade journals, websites, and wire services. Includes access to such top newspapers as Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Newsday, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. Also includes 90 Gannett newspapers from around the United States including: Arizona Republic, Cincinnati Enquirer, Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), Des Moines Register, Detroit Free Press, Indianapolis Star, Lansing State Journal, Madison Capital Times (Wisconsin), Muslim Journal (Chicago), The Tenneseean, and Wisconsin State Journal.
The following databases provide access to historical news sources from around the world. For more information, check out the News and News Sources Subject Guide.
General Historical News Databases
Specific Historical News Databases
Chronicling America - Newspapers from National Digital Newspaper Program participants (hosted by the Library of Congress), each containing up to "approximately 100,000 digital newspaper pages representing their state's regional history, geographic coverage, and events of note". Chronicling America also has an image search feature (Newspaper Navigator) that can be used to search for photos, illustrations, maps, and cartoons. The time span covered by Chronicling America's digital images is 1900 to 1963.
Gale NewsVault - Includes Nineteenth Century United States Newspapers (includes at least a portion of hundreds of newspapers)