LibGuides: Journalism Research Guide: News Sources

Finding A Specific Newspaper or News Magazine

Use these to find a specific newspaper or news source eg Wall Street Journal or Time

A to Z E-Journal List
Use this to find electronic newspaper sources.
MSU Library Catalog Journal/Periodical Title Search
Use this to find electronic, microfilm and print news sources at MSU.
ICON
Significant newspaper collections in print, digital and micro formats. Note: MSU affiliates have access to CRL materials, but these collections are usually not online and will require some time to access.
CRL Newspaper Search
The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) owns and lends many microfilm newspapers. Use this catalog to find out if CRL has the newspaper for the period you need, and use inter-library loan to request it.

Searching a Specific News Source in Factiva

News Databases

Use this to find news databases and search multiple newspapers or news sources eg Michigan newspapers or news in Arabic.

Newspaper Guide
Comprehensive list of all current, historical, Michigan, U.S. and international news databases and collections.

News Magazine Databases

These are indexes and/or databases with full text of news magazines articles. For scholarly research in Journalism, see the Research Articles tab; for newspapers, see the Newspaper Sources tab.

Readers' Guide Full Text Mega and Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 This link opens in a new window
1890-present. Readers' Guide indexes popular mainstream U.S. magazines ranging from Time to Better Homes and Gardens, Ebony, National Geographic and The Nation. Fulltext from 1990.
Alternative Press Index and Archive This link opens in a new window
1969-present. Index to journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from over 700 international alternative, radical, and left periodicals. Database coverage is both international and interdisciplinary.
Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window
Ethnic NewsWatch is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Designed to provide the "other side of the story," ENW titles offer additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press. The database now also contains Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989.

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Research Guides

Journalism Research Guide: News Sources

Finding A Specific Newspaper or News Magazine

Searching a Specific News Source in Factiva

News Databases

News Magazine Databases