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Newspaper Resources

  • Acceda Noticias
    This database provides Spanish language newspapers, magazines, and newswires from the U.S. and around the world. Years of coverage vary by title.
  • Access Business News
    This database includes over 500 Business and Trade journals from around the U.S. and World, from 1990s to current. Updated daily.
  • Access World News Research Collection
    This database Includes articles from 600 U.S. newspapers and over 700 international newspapers. Coverage varies, some newspapers going back as far as 1977.
  • Alt-PressWatch Best Bet
    Contains the full-text of newspapers, magazines, and journals of the alternative and independent press from the late 1960s to the present.
  • American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 1
    This database provides books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, periodicals, music, and graphic arts materials printed through 1816 in what is now the United States.
  • American Prison Newspapers, 1800-2020: Voices from the Inside
    Contains full-text searchable scans of newspapers and newsletters written and published in American prisons from the 20th century to present.
  • Business Journals
    Account creation using @scu.edu email address required. Access to 46 metropolitan U.S. business weeklies published by American City Business Journals, including the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal. Includes business news throughout the major metropolitan areas, across 18 different industries locally, and the Book of Lists.
  • California News Sources New
    This database includes articles from more than 500 news sources from around California, from 1983 to current. Includes The San Francisco Chronicle and San Jose Mercury News. Updated daily.
  • Chronicle of Philanthropy
    No access to Premium content. This database provides fundraisers, grant makers, and others involved in philanthropic enterprise with online articles, special reports, opinion pages, and data. Updates often.
  • Economist
    Account creation using @scu.edu email address required. Includes full access to app and web digital content related to world events, politics, business, science and technology, books, and the arts.
  • Education Week
    This database provides non-partisan news and insights into K-12 education in the United States. There is also access to education events, new books, curriculum products, job postings, webinars, blogs and videos. Updated weekly.
  • Ethnic NewsWatch Best Bet
    This database contains two collections: 1) A current collection (1990-present) of full- text newspapers, magazines, and journals from ethnic and minority presses. 2) A History collection (1959-1989) of full-text newspapers, magazines and journals, focusing on African American, Hispanic American, and Native American presses.
  • Flipster
    Flipster is a digital newsstand that includes magazines such as The New Yorker, Time, Variety, National Geographic, and The Atlantic, among others.
  • Gale OneFile: News
    This database provides full text access to more than 1100 major U.S. regional, national and local newspapers as well as leading titles from around the world. Also included are thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts
  • Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980
    This database provides the full text of hundreds of Hispanic American newspapers (many of them bilingual) published between 1808 - 1980. Included are newspapers from California, Texas, New Mexico, New York, and many other states.
  • Independent Voices
    This database provides a digital collection of the magazines, journals, and newspapers relating to feminist, dissident, campus radical, Native American, anti-war activist, Black Power, Hispanic, LGBT activist, the extreme right-wing publications of the alternative and small press archives from the latter half of the 20th century.
  • Literaturnaia Gazeta Digital Archive
    Contains full text scans of this important newspaper from the Soviet Union, all issues from 1921 to 2014.
  • Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005)
    This database provides a historical archive of the oldest and largest Black-owned newspaper in the western United States on the grass-roots struggle against the racially restrictive housing covenants of the 1940s, including first-hand accounts of politics, society, and events.
  • Los Angeles Times (1881-Present)
    This database provides full-text newspaper editions of Los Angeles Times from 1881. Coverage includes politics, society and events of the day.
  • Mercury News (MercuryNews.com)
    Provides access to contentat MercuryNews.com. Mercury News content includes breaking news, local news, sports, opinion, things to do, and more. Full text of articles back to 1985 and full-color newspaper page images back to 2020 are available from San Jose Mercury News.
  • Mercury News Historical and Current Collection New
    Provides full-image newspaper pages from 1900 to present, the full text of the electronic edition of record of the newspaper from 1985 to the present, and web edition articles from 2007 to present. Full-image newspaper pages of the Evening News from 1884 to 1983 are also included. Current content also available through Mercury News (MercuryNews.com).
  • New York Times (NYTimes.com)
    Provides access to NYTimes.com, New York Times mobile apps, and New York Times in Education. Registration is required. Content includes Breaking News, Multimedia, Opinion, Blogs, Videos and more.
  • Newspaper Source
    Provides full-text articles for 522 U.S. regional, national and international newspapers like USA Today, Indian Country Today and The Times (London). Also offered are transcripts from major network television and radio news, such as Face the Nation, CBS Evening News, CNN Reliable Sources, 60 Minutes, O'Reilly Factor, Hannity & Colmes, etc. Dates of coverage vary.
  • Nexis Uni
    This database provides access to federal & state court cases, law reviews, company information, news articles, etc. Dates of coverage vary by title.
  • Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers
    Contains full text scans of hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers.
  • OpinionArchives
    This database provides access to the complete archives of 16 leading journals of opinion, including Dissent, Commentary, Harper's, and The New Yorker.
  • ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Defender
    Full-text of the Chicago Defender newspaper from 1910 to 1975.
  • ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Pittsburgh Courier
    This database provides access to the most nationally circulated Black newspaper, The Courier (1910-2002) challenged the misrepresentation of African-Americans in the national media and advocated social reforms to advance the cause of civil rights.
  • ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times with Index
    Provides searchable digitized issues of The New York Times. Indexing coverage is from 1851 to 4 years ago. Full text is available online from 1851 to 4 years ago.
  • Proquest Historical Newspapers: The Washington Post
    Archive of the Washington Post newspaper (1877-1998).
  • Regional Business News
    Provides over 80 full-text regional business publications for the U.S. and Canada. Coverage for some publications, 1990 to current. Updated daily.
  • San Francisco Chronicle
    Online edition (text only) of the San Francisco Chronicle, from 195 to 2024.
  • San Francisco Chronicle 1865 - 1984
    Digitized newpaper editions of the San Francisco Chronicle from 1865 to 1984.
  • Times Digital Archive
    The Times of London newspaper archive presents coverage from 1785 to November 29, 2014, covering global events as well as cultural interests from the humanities, business, political science, and philosophy.
  • Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive
    This database provides the full text of the Times Literary Supplement, from its founding in 1902 to 5 years ago.
  • Wall Street Journal (WSJ.com)
    Primarily a business newspaper, also documents social, political, and cultural news that impacts financial standings. Published from July 1889 to present. Online subscription, free for students, faculty and staff.