Newspapers   Tags: history, journalism, newspapers, political_science  

Newspapers, in print or online, are a great resource for students. However, the online editions rarely extend back more than about a week, or contain selections from the print version.

Fortunately, the Library has access to several thousand newspapers from around the country and the world, many dating back to the 1800s. The bad news is that there is no single search interface for all of them. You will have to do some digging to find what you need.

Due to copyright and other legal issues,  photos, videos, and multimedia are usually not available in these databases. 

Chicago Tribune. Articles from 1985 to the present. For articles from 1849 to 1984, use the Chicago Tribune historical files. Articles are in PDF format, and includes a PDF of the whole page on which the article was found.

Ethnic Newswatch. Articles from over 340 alternative-press newspapers, magazines and journals. Includes the Chicago Citizen (1991-), Chicago Defender (1999-), Chicago Independent Bulletin (1996-2007), Chicago Jewish Star (1993-), Chicago Reporter (2009-), and Chicago Weekend (1992-).

Google News Newspaper Archive. Includes hundreds of historic newspapers digitized and/or indexed by Google through their News Archive Partner Program.

Lexis-Nexis. Coverage varies, but includes articles from about 2,000 U.S. and international papers and newswires. Includes the New York Times since 2002.

Library of Congress Chronicling America program. Contains over 450 newspapers dating from 1860-1922. Selections are also available on the program Flickr site.

Newspaper Source. Coverage varies, but includes articles from more than forty national and international newspapers, and selective full text for almost 400 regional American newspapers. In addition, full text television and radio news transcripts are also provided. Years of coverage vary.

New York Times. Articles from 1851 to 2002. Articles are in PDF format, and includes a PDF of the whole page on which the article was found. For articles after 2002, use Lexis-Nexis.

Wall Street Journal. Articles from 1984 to the present.

The Xavierite: the student newspaper of Saint Xavier University.The Library has copies from 2002 to the present in the lower level stacks, row 50, call number LD4865 .S27 X38 1979-. Issues dating back to 1979 are in Special Collections.