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Local Newspaper Databases
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Access World NewsComprehensive current news database, with hundreds of local and regional newspapers.
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ProQuest NewsstreamProQuest has many local newspapers.
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ProQuest Historical Newspapers(Searches through citations and the full text)
Full-text and full-image articles for six major United States newspapers plus Le Monde, the Jerusalem Post and the Times of India. Each paper is available from its first issue through about 2013 (depending on the paper). Earliest papers start in 1851. -
Nexis Uni(Searches through citations and the full text)
Access to the full text of newspapers (foreign and domestic), as well as business, legal, medical, and reference publications.
News Research Guides and Directories
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NewslinkLists of the local newspapers by state and metro area
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Gould Library Newspaper Research GuideFinding newspapers at Carleton
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onlinenewspapers.comlist of newspapers by metro area around the country
Alternative and Ethnic Press
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Alternative Press Index(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and abstracts)
An index of alternative, radical, and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines from around the world. It focuses on emerging theories and practices of radical social change, socialism, national liberation, labor, Indigenous peoples, gays/lesbians, feminism, ecology, democracy, and anarchism. Covers 1969 - current. -
Ethnic NewsWatch(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and some full text)
Search through the full text of newspapers, magazines, and journals published in the U.S by ethnic, minority, and native presses. Covers 1991 - current.
Strategy: Local News
1. Know what the local sources are. Use indexes and directories (like Newslink) to help you know this information.
2. Use a newspaper index like Nexis Uni or Proquest to strategically search for articles across many newspapers or for a specific date.
3. Use the library resources to get to paid archives.
Advanced Google Searching
Knowing these Google operators often helps you to uncover more relevant documents, such as nonprofit briefs, trade newsletters, and more. Here are some tips.
| Operator | What It Does |
| ~ (tilda) | searches for synonyms |
| inurl:gov; inurl:org; inurl:edu | searches only these domains |
| filetype:pdf; filetype:xls; filetype:ppt | searches for only these types of documents |
| date..date (2008..2009) | searches for documents relevant to those years |
| site:carleton.edu | searches for documents only at Carleton's domain |
Examples:
1. "hurricane katrina" "new orleans" ~environment ~race 2009..2010
2. ~katrina "new orleans" ~environment ~minorities inurl:gov filetype:pdf 2009..2010
3. "new orleans" katrina ~environment data 2010 site:epa.gov
