Library Guides: News and Newspapers: Top Picks in News

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Top Picks

Here are some of our most heavily used databases of historical news coverage. For a more comprehensive list of our historical newspaper collections, select Historical Newspapers -- United States or World -- in the left menu.

Times-Picayune & Daily Picayune: 1837-2017 (New Orleans, La.) This link opens in a new window
Access full text and full image of articles from the Times-Picayune (New Orleans) from 1837 through 2017.
America's Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Contains early American newspapers published between 1690 and 1980, including titles from all 50 present states and the Hispanic American Newspapers collection.
Historical Newspapers (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Includes full text access to over 26 U.S., UK, Irish, and Indian English-language newspapers, which may also be searched individually.
Titles include: The American Hebrew & Jewish Messenger (1857 - 1922); The American Israelite‎ (1854 - 2000); The Atlanta Constitution (1868 - 1945); Atlanta Daily World‎ (1931 - 2003); The Baltimore Afro-American‎ (1893 - 1988); The Boston Globe‎ (1872 - 1986); Chicago Defender‎ (1909 - 1975); Chicago Tribune‎ (1849 - 1994); The Christian Science Monitor‎ (1908 - 2004); Cleveland Call & Post‎ (1934 – 1991); Detroit Free Press‎ (1831 - 1922); The Guardian & The Observer‎ (1791 – 2003); The Irish Times & The Weekly Irish Times‎ (1859 - 2016); The Jewish Advocate‎ (1905 - 1990); The Jewish Exponent‎ (1887 - 1990); Los Angeles Sentinel‎ (1934 - 2005); Los Angeles Times‎ (1881 - 1994); New York Amsterdam News‎ (1922 - 1993); The New York Times‎ (1851 - 2014); New York Tribune‎ (1841 - 1922); Norfolk Journal & Guide‎ (1916 - 2003); Philadelphia Tribune‎ (1912 - 2001); Pittsburgh Courier‎ (1911 - 2002); The Scotsman‎ (1817 - 1950); The Times of India‎ (1838 - 2008); The Wall Street Journal‎ (1889 - 2000) and The Washington Post‎ (1877 - 2001)
African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 This link opens in a new window
A subset of the America's Historical Newspapers Collection from Readex, which includes African American newspapers from around the United States, including the New Orleans Daily Creole, New Orleans Tribune, Weekly Louisianian and the Weekly Pelican.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times This link opens in a new window
Access full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue in 1851. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue from 1851-2017.

Here are some of our most heavily used databases of current national news coverage. For more of the latest news, select Current News from the left menu.

Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents. NOTE: Before searching, please change the default previous 2 years to all available dates.
Factiva This link opens in a new window
Full-text coverage of newspapers, periodicals, and other sources of business and general news, plus company reports, industry reports, and financial data compiled by Dow-Jones and Reuters. Note: Factiva allows for a maximum of 8 concurrent users.
Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new window
Newspaper Source Plus provides a full-text digital collection of the world's major news content. It includes millions of articles from newspapers, newswires and news magazines. In addition, it offers television and radio transcripts and ongoing daily updates from popular news sources. Included is cover-to-cover full text for The Christian Science Monitor and The Los Angeles Times as well as selected full text from hundreds of regional newspapers. International newspaper coverage includes cover-to-cover full text for The Times (London), The Toronto Star, The Australian, and more. Newswire coverage includes AP Online (Associated Press), Asia Pulse, Canadian Press Wire, World Stream Newswires and more.

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ProQuest Digitized Newspapers: The New York Times (Recent) This link opens in a new window
The full-page images of this digitized newspaper provide genealogists, researchers and scholars with cover-to-cover access to recent newspaper content. Every page is full-text searchable with coverage 2008 to recent (3 month embargo). For the most current online issues of The New York Times Online visit the following link to create an easy access, online Academic Pass--- The New York Times Online for the Tulane Community- https://library.tulane.edu/news/new-york-times-online-tulane-community

Wall Street Journal
Browse by date or search full text, available 1984 - present.

Times-Picayune Collection (New Orleans, La.) This link opens in a new window
Accessible in multiple formats: digital via database (1989-) and website (current issues), microfilm (1914-1980), and print (current issues). Use the linked icons above to identify holdings and locations.

For additional sources of Louisiana news, both current and historical, select Louisiana News from the left menu.

New Orleans Advocate
Accessible via database (2011-), website or print (current issues). Use the linked icons above to identify formats, holdings, and locations.

Times-Picayune Collection (New Orleans, La.) This link opens in a new window
Accessible in multiple formats: digital via database (1989-) and website (current issues), microfilm (1914-1980), and print (current issues). Use the linked icons above to identify holdings and locations.

Gambit Weekly (New Orleans, La.)
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Free alternative weekly newspaper. Website offers online archive (1999-). Print holdings from 1980- current are available in the Louisiana Research Collection.
Louisiana Weekly (New Orleans, La)
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Emphasizes topics of interest to the African American community, especially in the New Orleans area and south Louisiana since 1925. Online archive 2011-. Print holdings available in the Louisiana Research Collection.
New Orleans CityBusiness
Covers New Orleans business news, including banking, health care, economic development, commercial real estate, high-tech industries, and community events. Database coverage: 1985 - present (delayed 1 week). Also available web and print.