NEWS
	AP Images - 1840 to present - Full Text Current year's photos from the Associated Press photo library and over 750,000 photos dating from the 1840s. Separate databases include graphics, maps, illustrations, and logos dating back to the 1920s with AP captions.
	General Reference Center Gold [GALE] - 1980 to present. MLIN - Full Text A general interest database including articles from magazines, reference books, and newspapers. Covers current events, popular culture, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more.
	LexisNexis Academic - Coverage varies by title - Full Text Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information. Includes federal and state laws and cases.
	Reporter's Desktop Finding people, news, facts, search engines, more.
	Westlaw Campus Research - Coverage varies by title - Full Text Provides access to federal and state legal materials, American Jurisprudence 2d, American Law Reports (ALR), and 900+ law journals and reviews. Full text US and international news sources are also included.
Current News
	CNN web site
	Disclosure - 1986 to present - Full Text Information on companies publicly traded on U.S. exchanges including filings, annual reports, company summaries, and shareholder reports. Daily updates of stock trading reports. Displays full text of documents.
	Drudge Report Links to national and international news resources on the web.
	ESPN Sports Zone
	National Weather Service
	Reporter's Desktop Finding people, news, facts, search engines, more.
	The Weather Channel
	Time Magazine web site
	United for Peace & Justice: Alternative News Sources Links to several independent media outlets on the web.
US Newspapers
	Alternative Press Watch - 1995 to present - Full Text Alt-PressWatch is a full text database of over 130 newspapers, magazines and journals from alternative and independent presses.
	America's Historical Newspapers - 1690 - 1922 - Full Text Cover-to-cover reproductions of hundreds of historic newspapers, based largely on Brigham's History and Bibliography of American Newspapers and its successors.
	Berkshire Eagle - 2005 to present. MLIN - Full Text
	Boston Globe - 1980 to present. MLIN - Full Text Full text of all staff-written news stories, features, columns, and editorials. Includes national and international news, and local politics, business, science, technology, real estate, the arts, entertainment, and sports.
	Boston Globe Historical - 1872 - 1924 - Full Text Full text, including images.
	Boston Herald - 1991 to present. MLIN - Full Text
	Chicago Defender Historical - 1905 - 1975 - Full Text Complete archive of digitized articles, editorial cartoons, photographs, advertisements, etc. from this nationally significant African-American newspaper.
	Chicago Tribune Historical - 1849 - 1986 - Full Text Full text, including images.
	Daily Hampshire Gazette - Full Text Covers local news, sports, and classifieds for Northampton and surrounding towns. Username/password required; ask at Reference Desk.
	Ethnic NewsWatch - 1960 to present - Full Text Full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
	Google News Archive Search - selected, up to 200 years back - Help Search across a large collection of historical archives including major newspapers/magazines, news & legal archives.
	Los Angeles Times
	Los Angeles Times Historical - 1881-1986 - Full Text - Help Full text, including images of the Los Angeles Daily Times (1881-1886) and the Los Angeles Times (1886-1986).
	Massachusetts Newsstand - MLIN - Full Text Full-text coverage of Massachusetts newspapers including the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Quincy Patriot Ledger, and Worcester Telegram & Gazette; selected coverage of other regional sources, including the Berkshire Eagle and North Adams Transcript.
	New York Times Requires registration
	New York Times Historical - 1851-2005 - Full Text Full text, including images, of the New York Times up to 2002.
	Newspaper Abstracts - 1989 to present Abstracts of items from over 50 U.S. national and regional newspapers. Includes news articles, reviews, editorials, commentaries, editorial cartoons, and other items.
	Other cities and towns
	ProQuest Historical Newspapers - variable - Full Text Full-text articles from Chicago Defender, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post.
	Republican (Springfield, MA) - 1988 to present. MLIN - Full Text
	USA Today
	Wall Street Journal - 1984 to present - Full Text Full-text articles from this major newspaper, covering US and international finance as well as more general news.
	Washington Post
	Washington Post Historical - 1877 to 1991 - Full Text Full text of articles from the Washington Post up to 1991.
International Newspapers
	AllAfrica - 1996 to present - Full Text - Help More than one million news articles about all countries on the African continent. Approx. 75% are in English; the rest are in French.
	HeadlineSpot News sources on the Internet by city, state, country, or type of media.
	NewsVoyager.com Nonprofit Newspaper Association of America's gateway to newspaper websites around the world.
	CountryWatch - 1993 to present - Full Text Up-to-date information and news on the countries of the world including political, economic, and business information, daily news and data in the form of Country ReviewsTM, the Country WireTM, CountryWatch Data and CountryWatch Business Services.
	NewsLink Provides links to hundreds of international newspapers and magazines with a strong emphasis on U.S. and Canadian sites. TV and radio sites are U.S.-based with links to non-US broadcast networks.
	PaperofRecord - Full Text Full images of 300 U.S., Canadian, Mexican, Irish, and other newspapers. Requires free registration. Some backruns are small - others (Irish Times 1859-2000) extensive.
	Times (London) Digital Archive - 1785-1985 - Full Text Complete digital edition of The Times (London), including articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos. Data will be added monthly until the entire period of 1785-1985 is available in late 2003.
	World News Connection (WNC) - late 1990's to present - Full Text - Help Foreign news in English translation.
Television and Radio
	International Radio and Television links
	National Public Radio
	Vanderbilt Television News Archive - 1968 to present - Full Text Video news segments of evening news broadcasts from ABC, CBS, NBC, FoxNews, and CNN, all with searchable abstracts.

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