Natalie Borisovets
and Ka-Neng Au
Reference Librarians
natalieb@newark.rutgers.edu
14 June 2007

Research Resources: Subject Research Guides:
Newspapers

This guide will lead to many newspaper sites with online searchable archives, as well as to physical collections of newspapers. Other related resources may be found on the Current Events and Newspapers section of the Electronic Reference Sources.

Rutgers Resources
NJ/NY/PA
Other U.S.
International
Newspaper Collections and Union Lists

A. Rutgers Resources

I. Primary Databases

IRIS: the Rutgers online catalog.: Use IRIS to find locations and holdings of newspapers at Rutgers. Type in the name of the newspaper and click on the pull-down menu to highlight PERIODICAL TITLE begins with

Access World News (Rutgers-restricted Access): Full-text content of over 840 North American newspapers and over 1,080 international newspapers. The entire collection or a selection of newspapers by specific title, region, state, country, or continent can be searched.

Factiva (Rutgers-restricted Access): A vast archive of the world's most important publications, reports and news, focusing on business. Major sections include News Page, Companies/Markets, and Search, which leads to the full-text of 8,000 leading business newspapers, magazines, trade journals, newsletters, and television and radio transcripts.

LexisNexis Academic (Rutgers-restricted Access): "News" section indexes and provides access to a large collection of U.S. and international newspapers, newsletters, wire service reports, transcripts of television and radio news broadcasts, and student newspapers. Includes English-language abstracts of foreign language newspapers, and full-text coverage of the New York Times from June 1, 1980 to the present.

Ethnic NewsWatch (Rutgers-restricted Access): A full-text collection of approximately 200 newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press. Over 400,000 complete articles dating back to 1990, in English and Spanish.

Regional Business News (Rutgers-restricted Access): Full-text coverage of NJBiz, Crain's New York Business, and 70 business news magazines, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

II. Other Electronic Databases

Business NewsBank Index. 1986- . Monthly with quarterly and annual cumulation.: An index to selected articles from the newspapers of more than 450 cities in the U.S. Access is by company, industry, product, personal name, and geographic location. (KILMER REF CD-ROM)

NewsBank Reference Service Plus. 1980-1996.: An electronic index to citations of articles from the newpapers of 500 U.S. cities. The newspapers from which the articles are pulled are NOT cataloged individually in IRIS. The index is on CD-ROM (ALEXANDER REF-COM Z 6293. N55); disks may be requested from the Reference Desk for in-library use on PC #4. The accompanying fiche collection is housed in the Alexander Microforms Room and includes articles from the Star-Ledger, Home News, and other area newspapers.

NewsBank NewsFile. 1996- .: A full-text news resource containing over 70,000 articles annually from more than 500 newspapers and other news sources, is the successor to the aforementioned fiche collection. Both the index and the articles are on a CD-ROM (ALEXANDER REF Z 6293 .N551); disks may be requested from the Reference Desk for in-library use on PC #4. Includes articles from the Home News and other area newspapers.

III. Rutgers Newspapers

Rutgers Focus: The Faculty and Staff Publication for Rutgers
Rutgers-New Brunswick's Daily Targum

Daily news items are available from Rutgers Media Relations.

IV. Indexes to Selected Newspapers

American Banker Index. 1971- . Monthly with annual cumulation.: Index to the American Banker newspaper. Arranged in three parts: personal names, corporations and banks, and general subjects. (DANA REF Index Table F)
New York Times. 1851- . (Rutgers-restricted Access): Allows you to search and display the full image of articles published in the New York Times back to 1851. The two+ most recent years are not included; use LexisNexis Academic (Rutgers-restricted Access) to find more recent articles.
New York Times Index. 1913- . (Formerly New York Times Index: Prior Series. 1851-1912.) Monthly with annual cumulation.: Subject index, with coverage of personalities, places, events, and companies. (ALEXANDER, CAMDEN, DOUGLASS REF; DANA REF Index Table G)
Official Index to the Financial Times. 1982- . Monthly with annual cumulation.: Index to the London Financial Times with listings by country, personal and corporate name, and subject. (DANA REF Index Table G)
Times Index. 1906- . Monthly with annual cumulation.: Index to the Times of London, the Sunday Times, the Times Literary Supplement, the Times Educational Supplement, and the Times Higher Education Supplement. (ALEXANDER REF; DANA REF Index Table G)
Wall Street Journal Index. 1957- . Monthly with annual cumulation.: Index to the Wall Street Journal and Barron's with listings by corporate name and subject. (DANA REF Index Table G) Full-text articles from January 2, 1984 to the present are available on Factiva. (Rutgers-restricted Access)

Other newspaper indexes available at the Alexander Library.

B. New Jersey/New York/Pennsylvania

New Jersey and other newspapers in Rutgers collections may be found by searching IRIS, the Rutgers online catalog, under the title of the newspaper.

The basic directory of New Jersey newspapers is the Directory of New Jersey Newspapers, 1765-1970, edited by William C. Wright and Paul A. Stellhorn (Trenton, NJ: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1977). (ALEXANDER, CAMDEN, DANA, DOUGLSS, KILMER, SPCOL/UA REF Z 6952 .N54 D57)

Many New Jersey newspapers are also held at Special Collections and University Archives; consult their finding aids on-site to locate specific titles and holdings.

Full-text access to the Newark Star-Ledger is available from 1996 to the present on Access World News (Rutgers-restricted Access) and on Factiva (Rutgers-restricted Access). The Dana Library has the Newark Star-Ledger on microfilm going back to 1980; microfilm reels back to August 1, 1945 are also available from the Rutgers Alexander Library in New Brunswick.

The Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center also has locally compiled Newark News Indexes, 1916-1970.

Today's issue, and selected South Jersey stories from the last fourteen days, of the Camden Courier-Post are available online for browsing; they, and earlier (approximately two years) stories can also be searched at the CourierPostOnline Search Engine. The Rutgers Robeson Library in Camden has the Courier-Post (various titles) on microfilm back to 1909; the Camden County Historical Society has the Courier-Post from 1892 to 1959 on microfilm.

Selected articles from the Courier-Post about the city of Camden are also indexed in CamdenBase.

Access World News (Rutgers-restricted Access)

Search the full-text of 18 major New Jersey newspapers as well as the Philadelphia Inquirer

Asbury Park Press (Neptune) (1/1/1999-)
Bayonne Journal, The (6/19/2003-)
Burlington County Times (Willingboro) (12/11/2002-)
City Journal (Jersey City) (3/25/2004-)
Courier-News (Bridgewater) (1/1/1999-)
Courier-Post (Cherry Hill) (1/1/1999-)
Daily Journal, The (Vineland) (8/25/1999-)
Daily Record (Morristown) (1/7/2004-)
Herald News (West Paterson) (1/9/2006-)
Home News Tribune (East Brunswick) (12/24/2002-)
Jersey Journal, The (Jersey City) (6/13/2003-)
Kearny Journal, The (6/19/2003-)
Ocean County Observer (Toms River) (12/17/2002-)
Press of Atlantic City, The (1988-)
Record, The (Hackensack) (1985-)
Secaucus Journal (3/25/2004-)
Star-Ledger, The (Newark) (1996-)
Waterfront Journal, The (6/19/2003-)

Factiva (Rutgers-restricted Access)

You can search for the full text of articles in the following New Jersey papers:

Asbury Park Press. 2003-
Burlington County Times. 11/1991-8/1997
Business Journal of New Jersey. 1985-7/1993
Central Business (Princeton). 10/1998-9/1995
Courier-News (Bridgewater). 2002-
Mercer Business. 4/1985-
New Jersey Business. 12/1990-
NJBiz. 9/1995-
Ocean County Observer. 12/2002-
Record (Bergen). 1999-
Southern New Jersey Business Digest. 1985-2/1989
Star-Ledger (Newark). 1996-
Trentonian. 1992-8/1997

I. New Jersey

Asbury Park Press: January 1, 1999- . $2.95 per article.
[Full-text also available back to 1999 via Access World News (Rutgers-restricted Access)]
Home News Tribune (New Brunswick): December 19, 2002- . $2.95 per article.
[Full-text also available back to 12/24/2002 via Access World News (Rutgers-restricted Access)]
Star-Ledger (Newark): May 1989- . $2.95 per article.
[Full-text also available back to 1996 via Access World News (Rutgers-restricted Access)]
The Record (Bergen): 1993- . $2.95 per article.
[Full-text also available back to 1985 via Access World News (Rutgers-restricted Access)]
The Times (Trenton): 1993- . $2.95 per article.

Other New Jersey newspapers from NewsLink. You can also consult the list of NJPA Member Newspapers (New Jersey Press Association).

II. New York

New York Daily News: 1984- . $3.95 per article.
New York Post: August 1, 1998- . $3.95 per article.
New York Times: January 1, 1996. $4.95 per article.
[Full-text also available back to 6/1/1980 via LexisNexis Academic (Rutgers-restricted Access)]
Newsday: 1985- . $3.95 per article.
Times-Union (Albany): March, 1986- . $2.00 per article.

III. Pennsylvania

Centre Daily Times: 1995- . $2.95 per article.
Morning Call (Lehigh Valley): 1984- . $2.95 per article.
Philadelphia Daily News: 1978- . $2.95 per article.
Philadelphia Inquirer: 1981- . $2.95 per article.
[Full-text also available back to 1981 via Access World News (Rutgers-restricted Access)]

C. Other U.S. Newspapers

NewsLink: Newspapers: Links to U.S. papers, organized by state and category.
College Newspapers: Listed by institution.
U.S. News Archives on the Web.: Selected papers (with searchable archives) for each state.

D. International

ABYZ News Links: "Gateway to Newspapers, News Media, and News Sources" from around the world, with its own search tool.
Business News Sources: Includes national and regional titles from around the world.
International News Archives on the Web.: Selective coverage of papers from around the world with searchable archives.
OnlineNewspapers.com: More than 5,000 titles listed by country.
The Paperboy: Links to more than 3600 newspapers from 126 countries.

E. Newspaper Collections and Union Lists

I. Historical Collections

African-American Newspapers (Rutgers-restricted Access)

This full-text database of several newspapers, published by and for African-Americans, currently comprises:

The Colored American, New York (1837-1841)
Frederick Douglass' Paper, (continues The North Star), Rochester, NY (1851-1854)
Freedom's Journal, New York (1827-1829)
The National Era, Washington, DC (1847-1855)
The North Star, Rochester, NY (1847-1851)

New titles recently added are:

Christian Recorder, Toronto, ON, (1861-1864)
Provincial Freeman, Toronto, ON, (1854-1857)

The organization that offers these newspapers, Accessible Archives, also provides access to the Pennsylvania Gazette from 1728-1800.

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers: "This site allows you to search and read newspaper pages from 1900-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present." A prototype digital database from the National Digital Newspaper Program, a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.

Historical New York Times: Chapter 2: The Civil War Years: Browse the text of the New York Times from 1860 to 1866 by date or by topic (e.g., battles, politics, social issues). From the Universal Library at Cargenie Mellon University.

RSAP: Resources for Research: Lists 18th, 19th, and early 20th century magazines and newspapers that are available full-text on the web. In addition to single titles, lists newspapers included as part of large digital collections (e.g., Cornell's and University of Michigan's Making of American Collections). From the Research Society for American Periodicals.

Early American Newspapers: Microform (microcard and microfilm) collection of early American newspapers. Based on Clarence Brigham's History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820 (2 vols, Worchester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1947; additions and corrections, 1961). (ALEXANDER REF Z6940. B855H, DANA REF Z6951 .B86 1962, DOUGLASS REF Z6941 .B768H, SPCOL/UA X-REF Z6940 .B855h) Scope expanded to include some titles published up to 1900. Individual titles in this collection may be located by searching IRIS, the Rutgers' online catalog. The collection includes fourteen 18th and 19th century New Jersey newspapers.

Popular Newspapers During World War II: Microfilm edition of five British newspapers reproduced in their entirety for the period 1939 to 1945. Covers: Daily Express (London); Daily Mirror (London); News of the World (London); People (London); and the Sunday Express (London). Chronological arrangement; (ALEXANDER M/Film 2717). Guide. (ALEXANDER, CAMDEN REF PN 5118 .P66 guide)

II. Union Lists of Newspapers

Union lists identify where runs of specific newspapers are physically held; newspapers on microform may be requested on Interlibrary Loan.

Union List of Selected Western European Newspapers & News Magazines in New York Metropolitan Libraries: Union list developed by the METRO Task Force on Foreign Newspapers (Western Europe).

U.S. Ethnic Press: Newspapers and periodicals published by various North American ethnic groups and held by the Center for Research Libraries (Chicago). Searchable by ethnic group.

Newspapers Catalogue at the British Library: Database of the holdings of the British Library's 50,000 newspapers and periodicals from all over the world, dating from the 17th century to the 21st.

Foreign Newspapers at the Center for Research Libraries: Database of more than 6000 titles of non-U.S. newspapers (current and restrospective) held by CRL.

Foreign Newspapers Currently Received in the Library of Congress: Newspapers currently received and permanently retained on microfilm.

Slavic and East European Newspaper Index: Newspapers held by the Slavic and East European Library at the University of Illinois--one of the largest collections in North America.

Union List of Slavonic and East European Newspapers in British Libraries: Provided by the Council for Slavonic and East European Library and Information Services.