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News Databases

General databases and current issues databases also include news articles

Consider business databases for business news, medical databases for medical news, and so on

America's Historical Newspapers (Joshua Martin Dill Memorial Fund)
Full text. 1690-2000. Historic newspapers from more than 20 states. Search the timeline for collected articles about historic events.

America's News Magazines
Full text. Eight sources: Baby Talk, Foreign Affairs, Newsweek, Parenting, Popular Science, Slate, Stateline.org, Washington Family Magazine.

CountryWatch (Walter B. Mahony Library Book Fund)
Full text. Provides information on each of the 192 recognized countries of the world including:

  • CountryReviews--demographic, political, economic, business, cultural and environmental information;
  • CountryWire--daily news coverage and a news archive;
  • CountryWatch Forecast--a five-year macroeconomic forecast;
  • CountryWatch Energy Forecast--a 20-year forecast of energy demand, supply, and pricing;
  • Also features CountryWatch Data (statistics), the CountryWatch Map Gallery, CountryWatch@School (curriculum based resources), and the weekly Global News Update.

El Pais
Spanish newspaper. Website for this Spanish language newspaper published in Madrid--includes an archive--also see Lexis-Nexis for full text back to 1996.

Grolier World Newspapers ~ NEW
"Links to 1,100 world newspapers in 73 languages representing 195 countries in Grolier Online."

Lexis-Nexis (Thomas William Jaffe Fund)
News, law & legislation, and statistics. Full text."Includes major U.S. and international newspapers; leading magazines, wire services and broadcast news transcripts; statistics and historical information; non-English language publications; and Federal and state case law, codes and legislation, both enacted and pending".

New York Times
Full text. 1995-present.

ProQuest: Historical Databases 1740 -2006
Full text. Provides digitized images of the following newspapers--search all of the newspapers plus the American Periodicals Series database or search each database individually.

The graphical version of the newspaper database is for students and includes Topics, Timelines, Famous Dead People, This Day in History, and a What Happened search for specific days--does not include American Periodicals Series.

ProQuest Newspapers
Full text. Search all of the Massachusetts papers at once with this link, or select individual papers.

  • Massachusetts Newsstand (search the 12 newspapers below plus selected coverage of other regional sources)
  • Berkshire Eagle (covers Pittsfield, MA, Berkshire County, and 4 nearby New York communities) (2005-present)
  • Boston Globe (1980-present)
  • Boston Herald (1991-present)
  • BusinessWest (Chicopee, MA) (1992-present)
  • Gazette (Haverhill, MA) (1992-present)
  • North Adams Transcript (covers northern Berkshire region) (2005-present)
  • Patriot Ledger (Quincy, MA) (1991-present)
  • Plymouth County Business Review (covers southeastern MA) (1991-present)
  • Sentinel & Enterprise (Fitchburg, MA) (2005-present)
  • Springfield Republican (Springfield, MA) (1988-present)
  • Standard Times (New Bedford, MA) (1992-present)
  • Sun (Lowell, MA) (covers the Merrimack Valley) (2004-present)
  • Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA) (1995-present)

The Recorder - Greenfield Recorder Online Newspaper - (Walter B. Mahony Library Book Fund)~ New
This online newspaper is subtitled: "Serving the people of Franklin County and the North Quabbin Region". Full text and searchable access.