Access World News provides full-text information and perspectives from U.S. and international news sources, each with its own distinctive focus offering diverse viewpoints on local, regional and world issues. This archive provides comprehensive coverage of current events (history in the making) and historical events. Each newspaper or wire service provides unique coverage of local and regional news, including specific information about local companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and the people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded.
Searchable and displayable full text of the Los Angeles Times from 1985 to the present. (Note: historical backfiles of the LA Times are available separately for 1881-1984.)
Date Coverage: 1985 - present
Materials Indexed: Newspaper Articles
Searchable and displayable full text of the New York Times from 1980 to the present. (Note: historical backfiles of the New York Times are available as a separate file.)
Date Coverage: 1980 - present
Materials Indexed: Newspaper Articles
Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) provides access to more than 17,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis. Nexi Uni has three primary collections: 1) full-text access to thousands of news sources in the U.S. and abroad back to the 1970s; 2) aggregated economic data on businesses, corporations, and industries in the U.S. and abroad; 3) full-text legal documents, including U.S. Federal and State court cases, and law reviews from the late 18th century to present.
Searchable and displayable full text of the Wall Street Journal from 1984 to the present. (Note: historical backfiles of the Wall Street Journal are available as a separate file.)
Date Coverage: 1984 - present
Materials Indexed: Newspaper Articles
17th and 18th C. newspapers digitized by the British Library. While UCSB does not have a subscription to this full-text database, the search interface is free to the public and quite a few selected articles are available free of charge. It is an excellent finding aid.
Contains Freedom's Journal (1827-1829), The Colored American (1837-1841), The North Star (1847-51) The National Era (1847-1860), Provincial Freeman (1854-1857), Frederick Douglass Paper (1851-1855, eventually to 1859) and The Christian Recorder (1861-1870, eventually to 1902). Other papers will be added in chronological order, with the goal of offering the complete text of the major African-American newspapers published in the United States during the 19th century.
Date Coverage: 19th-century America
Materials Indexed: Biographical Information; Newspaper Articles; Poetry; Primary Sources; Statistics
Uncheck all but the Newspapers boxes from the front page. Includes Early American Newspapers, Series I, (1690-1876) and Series II (primarily 182-1860).
Date Coverage: 1639 - 1980
Materials Indexed: Books; Government Documents; Magazine Articles; Newspaper Articles; Pamphlets; Primary Sources; Reports
Contains 4 major historical sources:
* Palmer's Index to The Times (London) which covers the period from 1790 to 1905 in The Times.
* The Official Index to The Times which takes the coverage forward from 1906 to 1980.
* Palmer's Full Text Online 1785-1870, providing access to the full articles referenced in Palmer's index to The Times.
* The Historical Index to The New York Times which covers The New York Times from 1851 to September 1922.
Date Coverage: 1995 to present.
Materials Indexed: Newspaper Articles
Searchable and displayable full text of the Los Angeles Times from 1881 to 1995. Note: current files of the LA Times (1985-present) are available separately.
Date Coverage: 1881 - 1995
Materials Indexed: Newspaper Articles
Searchable and displayable full text of the New York Times from 1980 to the present. (Note: historical backfiles of the New York Times are available as a separate file.)
Date Coverage: 1980 - present
Materials Indexed: Newspaper Articles
Searchable and displayable full text of the New York Times from 1851 to 2008. Note: current issues of the New York Times are available as a separate file.
Date Coverage: 1851 - 2008
Materials Indexed: Newspaper Articles
Searchable and displayable full text of the Wall Street Journal from 1984 to the present. (Note: historical backfiles of the Wall Street Journal are available as a separate file.)
Date Coverage: 1984 - present
Materials Indexed: Newspaper Articles
