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These databases will help you find journal, magazine, and newspaper articles, books, book chapters, statistics, and more. If you are not sure of your topic, start with Academic Search Complete.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
From the Library of Congress, search and view newspaper pages from 1890-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Ultimately, this will be a national, digital resource of historically significant newspapers from all the states and U.S. territories published between 1836 and 1922.

Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980      Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's computers and computing accounts.
Full text of about 350 Hispanic American newspapers from 1808-1980, some published only in Spanish and some published in English and Spanish. All areas of the country are represented but full runs of most newspapers are not included as they often do not exist.

Historical New York Times
Fulltext of the New York Times from 1851-2008

InfoTrac Custom Newspapers      Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's and other TexShare institutions' computers and computing accounts.
Provides full text access (1996-present) to The Austin American-Statesman, The Houston Chronicle, The New York Times, Financial Times, The Times (London), Christian Science Monitor, Knight-Ridder Newswire, and more than a hundred others.

International News Archives on the Web
Links to United States news archives available on the Web, organized by region and country

Lexis-Nexis      Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's computers and computing accounts.
Legal codes and cases; company financial information; full text magazine and newspaper articles. Documentation and a source list for the database are available.

New York Times Article Archive
The complete backfile of The New York Times can be searched, over 13 million articles in all. Most, but not all, articles are available in full-text for free

NewsDirectory.com
Links to English language newspapers and news reports from around the world

NewsIndex
Search the content of more than 100 newspapers; some of those listed below are covered by the search but most are not

Newspaper Source      Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's and other TexShare institutions' computers and computing accounts.
Provides selected full text for nearly 30 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers. Updated daily.

NewspaperCat: Catalog of Digital Historical Newspaper
Search for historical newspapers published in the U.S. and the Caribbean. Links to over 1000 fulltext historical newspapers. The fulltext of the newspapers is _not_ directly searchable from this site.

Online Newspapers
An international listing of newspapers from the Internet Public Library; most have no online archives but are useful if you want only today's news for a particular place

Regional Business News       Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's and other TexShare institutions' computers and computing accounts.
Newswire database that incorporates business wires from all over the world including A&G Information, Africa News Service, Inter Press Service, Resource News International, South American Business, M2 Communications, PR Newswire, Business News Wire, Canadian Corporate News, News Bytes News Network and Phillips Business Information Highlights

San Antonio Express-News
Search the archives for free. Full text is available for a fee.

Television News Archive
Searchable achive of over 30,000 nightly news programs and special news-related programs such as presidential press conferences, Watergate hearings, etc. Abstracts are available online and loans of the programs themselves for a fee.

U.S. News Archives on the Web
Links to United States news archives available on the Web, organized by state

Wall Street Journal       Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's computers and computing accounts.
Searchable full text of the Eastern edition of the Wall Street Journal, January 2, 1984 to the present.

Yahoo News and Media Listing
A lengthy listing of news media; most have no online archives but are useful if you want only recent news



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