Guides: Political Science: Newspapers

Looking for a Specific Newspaper?

Looking for a Specific Newspaper?

Check the Journals A-Z list (it includes newspapers and magazines too!).

Discover whether we have access online, in print, or on microfilm.
If available online, the link will often get you to a search box for just that paper.
Be sure to note the dates of coverage!

US Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Features full-text U.S. newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites. Includes the LA Times, Chicago Tribune, Wall Street Journal, and one of the largest collections of local and regional newspapers.
Coverage: 1980 - current.
International Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Provides information from more than 660 of the world's top newspapers, including The Times (London), The Bangkok Post, El Norte, Financial Times, The Guardian, Jerusalem Post, South China Morning Post, The Daily Telegraph, Asian Wall Street Journal, and the BBC Monitoring series of publications.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Nexis Uni is the new platform for LexisNexis Academic. It offers a streamlined, unified search of more than 15,000 news, legal and business sources. Resources include the full text of national and international newspapers; magazines; wire services; business and financial information; U.S. laws, regulations, and legal cases. Designed to meet student needs, it allows individual customization along with collaboration tools for creating shared work space for group projects.
PressReader This link opens in a new window
90-day archive of full-color, full-page, scanned images of over 5000 publications from many countries in many languages.

World-Newspapers.com
Website that provides links to online newspapers (some papers may require a subscription).

Historical Newspapers (ProQuest)
Search the digitized full-text and images of the New York Times (1851-2018); Wall Street Journal (1889-2010); Los Angeles Times (1881-1997); Washington Post (1877-2006); Chicago Tribune (1849-1998); Boston Globe (1872-1990); Christian Science Monitor (1908-2009); Atlanta Constitution (1868-1945). Black Newspapers: Chicago Defender(1910-1975); Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003); Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002)

Times of London Digital Archive, 1785 - six years ago This link opens in a new window
Access the digital archives of The Times of London from 1785 onwards (most recent 6 years not included). Search by keyword, by words in text, or browse by date and retrieve the full text as it appeared in the paper. Search with other collections and British newspapers via Gale Artemis.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Times of India This link opens in a new window
Includes 1838 through 10 years ago
World Newspaper Archive - Latin America This link opens in a new window
Formerly: Latin American Newspapers 1805-1922. Full-text page images from Newsbank/Readex. Searchable collection of historical Latin American newspapers. More than 35 newspapers published between 1805 and 1922 in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Guyana, Mexico, Peru, Trinidad and Venezuela. Languages include Spanish, Portuguese, and English.

Why Use Translations?

Current Digest of the Russian Press
Weekly selection of Russian-language press materials translated into English. Online access 2001 - present. Earlier years called Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press and before that, Current Digest of the Soviet Press. Back issues in print and microfiche.

Current Digest of the Chinese Press This link opens in a new window
The Current Digest of the Chinese Press offers a comprehensive understanding of current events and happenings from the Chinese point of view through English translations of key Chinese newspaper articles. Articles are chosen across a wide range of topics, including politics, international relations, security, economics, education, public health, culture and more.

FBIS Daily Report (microfiche & partially online)
Translations of radio and TV broadcasts, newspaper and magazine articles, wire services and speeches. Some reports available FULL-TEXT via Hathitrust. Foreign radio broadcasts listed separately. The library has reports on microfiche for Latin America ('90+), Sub-Sahara Africa ('91+), Asia & Pacific/East Asia ('85+), USSR & East Europe/Central Eurasia ('78-'96), China ('79+), Eastern Europe ('87+). Use theIndex to the FBIS Daily Reports - Govt Docs Reference DJ - DS. Reports issued on microfiche, located in Gov Docs microfiche cabinets under PREX 7.10. For more detail, see the FBIS handout. See also JPRS reports and JPRS handout.
Watching America.com
Non-partisan internet site that translates into English foreign news articles about the U.S. Great for getting a non-U.S. perspective on events involving the U.S. and for monitoring world opinion of the U.S. The site uses a combination of machine translation and human editors.
World Press Review
Provides articles reprinted and/or translated from the foreign press, as well as originally written material. Latest issues online (now a website). Older issues in Bound Periodicals AP2 .A83 2001 - 2004 and Microfiche 1980-2000.

Newspapers Research Guide
Find additional newspaper databases and titles in the collection of print, microform, and electronic subscriptions in the Libraries at Middlebury. Read articles online, or find out their library location.
CRL Newspapers Catalog
Search the Center for Research Libraries' catalog for newspapers. Browse by country and other options. Midd users can request issues on microfilm via our Interlibrary Loan service. Note the CRL number in your request.