Research Guides: Newspapers: Free Access for SIUC

Collected Newspapers Online

Global Newsstream
Search the most recent global news, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring content from newspapers, newswires, and news sites from the U.S., Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Australia.
NewsBank
Full-text information and perspectives from over 600 U.S. and over 700 international sources.
Newspaper Source Plus and Regional Business News
Includes more than 860 full-text newspapers, including USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post, The Times (London), The Toronto Star, etc. Also contains selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers. as well as television and radio news transcripts.
Nexis Uni
Features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.
Regional Business News
More than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the U.S.
U.S. Major Dailies
Provides access to the five most respected U.S. national and regional newspapers: The New York Times, Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Tribune. Content is available by 8am each day and archives reach as far back as 1985.

Individual Newspapers Online

Newspapers Available Online in Morris Library's Catalog
List of newspapers available online through Morris Library's catalog. Check coverage dates to see if current issues are available or only historical ones. Browse the titles or use the filters at the left and the search box at the top to find a specific title. Includes a large number of international titles and some in languages other than English.

Chicago Tribune, 1985 - present
Provides reporting and analysis of regional, national, and international news.
Chronicle of Higher Education
News, advice, and jobs for people in academe published every weekday. Features daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings; vibrant discussion forums; and career-building tools such as an online CV's, salary databases, and more.

Daily Egyptian, 1888-1969
Browse the DE's historical archive by year, brought to you Morris Library's Special Collections Resource Center and OpenSIUC.

Guardian (The), 1996 - present
Coverage begins in 1996 and includes today’s paper. Browse by date or search by nearly 20 different categories across the time span of your choice. Printing and emailing take just a click, and six citation styles are available for copying and pasting.
Los Angeles Times, 4 December 1996 - present
Major daily newspaper from Los Angeles offering extensive coverage of national, international, and local news.
New York Times, 1980 - present
Coverage begins in 1980 and includes today’s paper. Browse by date or search by nearly 20 different categories across the time span of your choice. Printing and emailing take just a click, and six citation styles are available for copying and pasting.
USA Today, 1997 - present
Searchable coverage from 1997 to the present. Specific issues can be browsed by date.
Wall Street Journal, 1984 - present
Coverage begins in 1984 and includes today’s paper. Browse by date or search by nearly 20 different categories across a chosen time span. Six citation styles are available for copying and pasting.
Washington Post, 4 December 1996 - present
Coverage begins in 1996 and includes today’s paper. Browse by date or search by nearly 20 different categories across the time span of your choice. Printing and emailing take just a click, and six citation styles are available for copying and pasting.

Historical Newspapers Online

Accessible Archives: Primary Source Material from 18th and 19th Century Periodicals
Contains primary source material that reflects a broad view of the times. African American Newspapers contains a wealth of information about cultural life and history during the 1800s while The Civil War 1860 - 1865 contains the full text of major articles gleaned from newspapers published between November 1, 1860 and April 15, 1865.
African American Newspapers: The 19th Century
Contains a wealth of information about cultural life and history during the 1800s and is rich with first-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day, including the Mexican War, Presidential and Congressional addresses, Congressional abstracts, business and commodity markets, the humanities, world travel and religion. Also provides a great number of early biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements.
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 1
Comprehensive documentary history of the American experience spanning four centuries with multiple perspectives on the thought, culture, and society of North America presented through digitized journals, magazines, and periodicals.
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 2
Comprehensive documentary history of the American experience spanning four centuries with multiple perspectives on the thought, culture, and society of North America presented through digitized journals, magazines, and periodicals.
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 3
Comprehensive documentary history of the American experience spanning four centuries with multiple perspectives on the thought, culture, and society of North America presented through digitized journals, magazines, and periodicals.
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 4
Comprehensive documentary history of the American experience spanning four centuries with multiple perspectives on the thought, culture, and society of North America presented through digitized journals, magazines, and periodicals.
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 4
Comprehensive documentary history of the American experience spanning four centuries with multiple perspectives on the thought, culture, and society of North America presented through digitized journals, magazines, and periodicals.
Black Studies Center
Includes scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, and much more. Combines Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index of Black Periodicals (IIBP), and The Chicago Defender.

British Newspaper Archive
Searchable, digitized issues of hundreds of newspapers from the British Isles (and beyond) with the full text of hundreds of millions of articles spanning from the 1700s to about 1980, all completely free.
California Digital Newspaper Collection
Massive database of digitized newspapers published in California between 1846 and today, all available for free.
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Chicago Defender, 1909 - 1975
Offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
Chicago Tribune, 1849 - 1999
Full-text searchable database of the Chicago Tribune's historical backfiles. Includes digital reproductions of newspaper pages, including images.

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Free online resource providing access to more 2,000 historical American newspapers from the Library of Congress spanning 1770-1963.

Civil War 1860 - 1865: A Newspaper Perspective
Full text of major articles gleaned from over 2,500 issues of The New York Herald, The Charleston Mercury, and the Richmond Enquirer, published between November 1, 1860 and April 15, 1865. Included are descriptive news articles, eye-witness accounts and official reports of battles and events, editorials, advertisements and biographies. Other topics covered include travel, arts and leisure, geographical descriptions, sports and sporting, social events, and the like.
Economist (The), Historical Archive, 1843 - 2015
Complete searchable copy of every issue of The Economist from 1843 to 2015 covering the world's political, business, scientific, technological and cultural developments and the connections between them.
Gale Primary Sources
Portal for searching across Archives Unbound, The Economist Historical Archive, The Telegraph Historical Archive, and Sabin Americana.

Georgia Historic Newspapers
Free and open digital archive which "includes over two million Georgia newspaper pages between 1763 and 2021." Source material comes from all parts of Georgia and aimed at a range of demographics, such as Black or LGBTQ+ communities.
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Google News Archive
This free resource from Google includes digitized issues of historic newspapers from around the world. Searchable by keyword and title.
Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection
Digital collection of hundreds of thousands of issues of 223 Illinois newspapers, free to search, free to browse, and free to download. Includes general, Black, farm, vaudeville, and student newspapers.
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This collection contains 45 newspaper titles, 93,011 issues comprising 1,112,621 pages and 7,160,392 articles.

New York Times, 1851 - 2020
Full-text and full-image articles from the New York Times starting with the first issue. Includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue published between 1851-2020 in downloadable PDF files.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Includes the Chicago Tribune (1849-1999), The Chicago Defender (1909-1975), and The New York Times (1851-2020).

Washington Blade
Digitized editions of Washington, D.C.'s principal LGBT newspaper from the first issue in 1969 through 1989. Covers contemporary "events from an LGBT perspective as well as LGBT life in D.C. and the social and political progress of the gay rights movement."
Yale Daily News Historical Archive
Full text, searchable, indexed digitized versions of over 140 years of print editions of the Yale Daily News, the oldest daily college newspaper in the U.S.

Newspapers on Paper and Microfilm

Newspapers in Morris Library's Catalog
Browse titles and years of newspapers accessible in microform, print, or online through Morris Library.

Print Newspapers

Use the catalog link above to check if Morris Library has a specific newspaper. Only most recent one month available. Located on the third floor, shelved near the rotunda on the NE side of the building.

Microfilmed Newspapers

Use the catalog link above to check if Morris Library has a specific newspaper. Located on the third floor. Arranged in cabinets by city, then newspaper title. Wall Street Journal, the only exception, is filed by title.

Readers and printers are available near the 3rd floor desk. Assistance with the machinery is available at the 1st floor Information Desk.

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Newspapers: Free Access for SIUC