Research Guide: News

News & Current Events Databases

AP Images
Offers images of current events, people in the news, historical figures, political leaders, sports greats, and more. (more info)
CQ Global Researcher
In-depth coverage of global affairs from a number of international viewpoints. (more info)
CQ Researcher
Full text of CQ Researcher reports on major U.S. social, economic and political issues. (more info)
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1974 - 1996
Created by the U.S. intelligence community to benefit policy makers and analysts, FBIS Daily Reports offer foreign views and perspectives on historical events translated into English. (more info)
Google News Archive Search
Searches back issues of selected newspapers and magazines (more info)
InfoTrac Newsstand
Access to more than 1,000 major U.S. regional, national and local newspapers, and leading titles from around the world. (Does not include The Oregonian). (more info)
Left Index
Leads to articles in left-leaning periodicals about politics, economics, and society. (more info)
LexisNexis Academic
Full text of national, regional, and international newspapers, business, and legal sources and more. (more info)
Newspaper Abstracts
Indexes articles from 1989 to the present from Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Houston Post, Los Angeles Times, and others (more info)
NewspaperDirect PressDisplay
Online access to today's newspapers from around the world in full-color, full-page format. (more info)
Newspaper Source
Selected full text for 300 U.S. and international newspapers. (more info)
New York Times - Historical
Provides access to full text articles, photos, and advertisements in the New York Times from 1851 through 2003. (more info)
Oregonian (on LexisNexis Academic)
Full text of The Oregonian newspaper. (1987 - present) (more info)
Oregon Index
Indexes several Oregon newspapers. (more info)
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature
Index of articles in 350 popular, general-interest magazines published in the U.S. and Canada. (1983-present) (more info)
World News Connection
Compiled from thousands of non-U.S. media sources, the information in WNC covers significant socioeconomic, political, scientific, technical, and environmental issues and events. (more info)

Guide to Indexes

Guide to Oregon Newspaper Indexes
A guide to state newspaper indexes maintained by libraries in Oregon.
Oregon Newspapers Index
Index to The Portland Oregonian from Dec. 1850-1987; The Register-Guard, and UofO campus newspaper.

Individual news publications

Chronicle of Higher Education
Provides news reports and editorials on all facets of higher education in the United States, Canada, and abroad, with reference lists of relevant research, books, seminars, workshops, fellowships, and grants; for senior administrative, business, and academic officers.
Wall Street Journal
Provides full-text articles for the Wall Street Journal from Jan. 2, 1984 through current issue. (more info)

Guides to online publications

Online newspapers from around the world.
Searchable newspapers directory, with links organized by continent/country or in a title index.
NewsDirectory.com
Directory of English-language media, with more than 14,000 links to newspapers, magazines, television stations, colleges, visitor bureaus, governmental agencies and more.
NewsVoyager
The Newspaper Assn. of America provides links to U.S. daily and weekly newspapers, Canadian and international dailies, newspaper groups, associations and other media organizations.
Media-Link
Kidon Media-Link is an independent non-profit site on the internet. The newspapers and other news sources on Media-Link are listed by continents; there are also eight pages organized by language.
NewPages
An online guide focusing on non-corporate sources of news.
NewsLink
9,000 links to newspapers, magazines, broadcasters and news services worldwide.
Television News Archive
Begun in 1968, this archive of television news holds "more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks, and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline..."
U. S. News Archives on the Web
From the News Division of the Special Libraries Association. (*Watzek Library provides alternative (i.e. free) means of obtaining past articles - ask a librarian for assistance).

Consumer Reviews

Consumer Search
This site offers invaluable, unbiased consumer product information. ConsumerSearch.com strives to provide "the latest and best competitive analysis of products" for free. The site divides goods into basic, logical categories, and for each product, offers three distinct and related services. Fast Answers is an at-a-glance compilation of reviews (gleaned from other sources) of each specific product; it also rates the best products according to the reviews. For an in-depth analysis of both the product and the experts that reviewed the products, readers will want to peruse the Full Story section. Also, includes citations to reviews in repected print magazines like consumer reports. All the Reviews Reviewed consists of the ConsumerSearch.com's editors's descriptions, ratings, and opinions of each of the review sources.

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