Research Guides: English Literature Research Guide: Newspapers and Magazines

General Newspaper Collections

Emory Library's Guide to Newspapers
This guide describes sources of current, recent (ca. the past three decades), and historical newspapers available in print, microform or online format via the Emory University Libraries and/or the Internet.The guide also includes sources of information useful for identifying, finding, and searching newspapers, such as: availability of newspapers at other institutions; newspaper directories; and newspaper indexes.

Internet Public Library Online Newspapers
Lists online versions of print-based newspapers. Includes local and national newspapers, as well as official and student-run newspapers from colleges, universities, and primary and secondary schools. Will no longer be updated.
Proquest Recent Newspapers
Digital microfilm reproductions for several papers, including Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, and Washington Post.
Newspapers.com
Contains local and regional historical newspapers from the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Ireland, Australia and other select countries.
Newspaper Source Plus [EBSCO]
Provides current information and daily feeds from a wide variety of U.S. and international newspapers.
ProQuest News & Newspapers
An extensive collection of historic and present-day news sources from around the world. You can focus your search to a region, current newspapers, or historical newspapers.

Current Events

New York Times
Instructions for access: Please read the instructions below to register or re-register your account.

Register for free access to NYTimes.com and the NYTimes app. Access includes all NYTimes articles, videos, interactive features, and a searchable archive back to 1851.
Please follow the instructions outlined here to register (or re-register) and “grab” your pass: https://guides.libraries.emory.edu/main/nytimes_at_emory
Wall Street Journal (WSJ.com)
Register for direct access to Emory's institutional subscription to the Wall Street Journal. Please see details below.

Wall Street Journal Instructions:
https://libraries.emory.edu/business/research-learning/databases/wall-street-journal-wsjcom

Magazine Archives

Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive
Access backfiles of Beat, Billboard, Boxoffice, Broadcasting & Cable, Melody Maker, Musician, New Musical Express, Spin, Variety, and other entertainment titles.
News, Policy & Politics Magazine Archive
Access consumer magazines in the fields of news, policy, and politics. Titles include Newsweek, the UN Chronicle, the UNESCO Courier, and more.
Women's Magazine Archive
An archival research resource comprising the backfiles of leading women's interest consumer magazines. Issues are scanned in high-resolution color and feature detailed article-level indexing. Coverage ranges from the late-19th century through to 2005 and these key primary sources permit the examination of the events, trends, and attitudes of this period. Among the research fields served by this material are gender studies, social history, economics/marketing, media, fashion, politics, and popular culture. Access the full backfiles of leading women’s interest consumer magazines. Prominent themes include gender, social history, economics, media, politics and more. Coverage ranges from the late-19th century through to 2005.

Newspapers in the United States

America's Historical Newspapers
Explore the nation's past in unprecedented ways. Search and browse American newspapers published across three centuries.
African-American Newspapers: 19th Century
Access historical African American newspapers.
African American Newspapers, Series 2, 1835-1956
Contains African American newspapers published in the United States from 1835-1956. Complements the database African American Newspapers, Series 1, 1827-1998.
America's Historical Newspapers
Access various historical newspapers that span from the seventeenth to the twentieth century.
Formerly Early American Newspapers Digital.
Indigenous Newspapers in North America
American Indian newspapers from the United States and Canada, 1828-2016.
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Jewish Historical Newspapers
Access full-text back files of major Jewish historical newspapers.
Chronicling America
Contains a variety of historical newspapers dating from 1900 to 1963.
Ethnic American Newspapers from the Balch Collection, 1799-1971
Access newspapers in different languages and from different U.S. states related to the history of influential ethnic groups in U.S. history. Prominent themes include business, music, science, wars, and more.
Georgia Historic Newspapers
Access historic newspapers published in Georgia.
Hispanic American Newspapers
Compilation of Spanish-language newspapers - some published in both Spanish and English - printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries. Can be searched simultaneously with other historical newspapers via the America's Historical Newspapers database.
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers
Contains facsimile images of 19th century newspapers from a broad range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S.
Proquest Historical Newspapers: US Southeast Collection
Historic newspapers from the southeastern states of North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Maryland, and Florida.

British Newspapers

Gale Primary Sources: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection
Collection Includes material on East India Company.of early English news media gathered by Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817). Includes newspapers, pamphlets, broadsides, and books.
Gale Primary Sources: British Library Newspapers
This database consists of full-text national and regional newspapers from Victorian Britain, digitized from the collection of the British Library. It is the sister product to 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers (1604-1800).
The Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003
Access all published issues from 1842 to 2003. Entirely full-text searchable with new, high-quality digital imaging from flat unbound print sets. Covers a wide range of subject areas in the 19th and 20th.

World Newspapers

African Newspapers: The British Library Collection
African Newspapers: The British Library Collection features 64 newspapers from throughout Africa, all published before 1901.
African Newspapers: The British Library Collection includes publications from Djibouti, Egypt, Mauritius and Saint Helena, as well as deep new coverage of Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and South Africa. Africa produced comparatively few newspapers in the 19th century, each page in this collection is significant, offering invaluable insight into the people, issues and events that shaped the continent. Through eyewitness reporting, editorials, letters, advertisements. obituaries and military reports, the newspapers in this one-of-a-kind collection chronicle African history and daily life as never before. Students and researchers will find news and analysis covering the European exploration of Africa, colonial exploitation, economics, Atlantic trade, the mapping of the continent, early moves towards self-governance, the growth of South Africa and much more.
Caribbean Newspapers. Series 1, 1718-1876: From the American Antiquarian Society
Access newspapers from the Caribbean from 1718 to 1876 in full text.
East African Newspapers
The East African Newspapers collection features key newspapers from the region from the 1940s to the early 2000s.
World Newspaper Archive : African Newspapers, Series 1
Contains newspapers published between 1800 and 1922 in various countries in Africa, including Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, and more.
World Newspaper Archive : Latin American Newspapers, Series 1
Contains newspapers published in the 19th and early 20th century from various Latin American countries including Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, Venezuela, and more.
World Newspaper Archive: South Asian Newspapers
The collection will provide more than 400,000 fully searchable pages of newspapers published in South Asia between 1864 and 1922. Titles were published in India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Languages include English, Bengali, Gujarati, and others. Titles include such key publications as: Amrita Bazar Patrika (Calcutta), Bankura Darpana (Bankura, India), Madras Mail (Madras), Tribune (Lahore, Pakistan) and the Ceylon Observer (Sri Lanka).Contains newspapers in various languages and from regions in South Asia published between 1864 and 1922.