Newspapers: A Primary Resource for Social Studies/History Students
WEAC Convention Oct. 27-28, 2005



Online Newspaper Databases


Newspapers send their material every day to a number of online databases. Some of the major ones are listed below.

  • Lexis-Nexis (www.nexis.com)
  • NewsLibrary (www.newslibrary.com)
  • Factiva (www.factiva.com)
  • Dialog (www.dialog.com)
  • Thomson/Gale Online Databases (http://www.gale.com/title_lists/)
  • Proquest Newsstand (BadgerLink) (http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=SzEyPTImSU5UPTAmREJTPUcw)



    But if you are interested in searching only one newspaper database, you can go directly to the newspaper's Web site to search the archives. Sometimes it might be free.

  • U.S. newspaper archives online (http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/internet/archives.html)



    Searching online can be expensive and the collections might not go back far enough for the type of research you and your students are interested in doing. Two alternatives are the New York Times On This Day and the Time magazine archive.

  • New York Times On This Day (www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/index.html)
  • Time magazine (http://www.time.com/time/archive/)



    With the advancement of digital technology, there are several other Web sites that offer newspaper pages from far back in time but, again, some of these sites will require paying for a subscription.

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