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General Overview
Wesleyan University Library offers an exceptionally wide array of
newspaper resources in electronic, microprint and original paper formats.
In recent years with the advent of electronic search engines and full-text
databases, we are proud to be able to offer both powerful search capability as
well as desktop access to current domestic and international news sources. The following
paragraphs describe some of our extensive resources, both in electronic and
hardcopy, and gives further information about
accessing historical newspapers in the library back through the eighteenth
century. Please consult a Reference Librarian for assistance
and advice about how to search our online news services, or with any questions
concerning the use of any of the newspaper resources available at Wesleyan
University.
Factiva
Factiva covers World and national news, financial news, company
profiles. It includes full text of United States and international newspapers,
press releases, magazines, wire services, and journals, news photos, industry
trade and other professional journals, stock market performance. Coverage varies
by title, but can extend back to 1979 (for Wall Street Journal).
Lexis-Nexis
Lexis-Nexis is
Factiva's major competitor in the world of electronic news and business
information services. The two services, however, compliment each other
since many newspapers not available in one of the services, is usually available in the
other. Nexis provides full text access to over 13,500 news
sources including national, regional and international newspapers,
newswires, magazines, trade journals and business publications. Nexis
is the exclusive online archival resource for the New York Times in
the professional market. It also contains national network and
regional television broadcast transcripts, and it also carries Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Daily
Market Summaries. The major news wire services of China, France,
Germany, Japan, Mexico, the United Kingdom, the Russian republics,
and the United States are also searchable through Lexis-Nexis.
Business data offers brokerage house and industry analyst reports,
Dun & Bradstreet corporate information, company records, and tax
information.
Ethnic News Watch
Ethnic News Watch
is a full-text general reference database of over 200 newspapers, magazines and
journals of the ethnic minority and native press of the United States. The
publications of the ethnic and minority press have been presented an alternative
perspective of reality in the United States since the mid-nineteenth century.
With a wide collection of articles, editorials and reviews, Ethnic News Watch
is, therefore, a valuable interdisciplinary resource providing in-depth coverage
of current and historical topics from a point of view different from that of the
mainstream press. Ethnic News Watch can be used for research in such
fields as business, education, ethnic and cultural studies, literature and the
arts, history, journalism, political science, sociology, contemporary culture,
and Spanish language.
Ethnic News Watch supports both English and Spanish
language search interfaces which does not affect results. The researcher
is requested to select one of the two interfaces before entering a search.
The database contains articles dating back to 1990, and it covers the press of
the following ethnic groups:
The sophisticated search engine permits the researcher to enter
free text searches for words that appear in the text of the articles, or for
more specific recall, searches may be limited by a wide range of criteria
including subject terms, title words, author, type of article, ethnic group or
language of articles. Search results can be sorted for print or export,
and an online tutorial is available to assist users in navigating the database.
Wesleyan University pays a subscription fee for access to Ethnic News Watch
which limits usage to persons connecting through the Wesleyan University network
or through the proxy
server.
Free News Services on the Internet
News
Services- Links to Yahoo's extensive alphabetical listing
of the World Wide Web pages of national, international, and
special interest news services.
Newspapers--USA and Worldwide
provides links to the free Internet sites of local newspapers in the United
States arranged by State and town, foreign newspapers by region, country and
city, and national news sites from all over the world. Also has links to
U.S. news archives, and searchable newspaper archives.
CNN Interactive is an
especially popular site for tracking current news stories on the
Internet with news updated several times daily.
USA Today is another popular
Internet news service updated frequently each day.
Newspaper subscriptions in the Wesleyan University Libraries
Wesleyan University Library subscribes to the following American and foreign
newspapers.. Many of these titles are also accessible through Lexis-Nexis
or Factiva and those entries have been appropriately annotated.
Library holdings in hardcopy and/or microform are also noted.
United States Newspapers
- Barron’s (Weekly)
- Hardcopy- Paper copies are retained until receipt of
microfilm. Library owns bound newspapers from 1943-1975 +HG1.B3,
and a microfilm edition from 1975 to present. Micro HG1.B3;
Full-text available from
Factiva (1/5/87 to present)
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- Boston Globe (Monday-Saturday)
- Hardcopy- Library retains latest three months only
Daily Internet
Edition
Lexis-Nexis
Full-text articles without graphics are available retrospective to September
1, 1988.
- Christian Science Monitor (Weekdays only)
- Hardcopy- Paper copies are kept until receipt of
microfilm. Library owns October 3, 1983 to present on microfilm. Micro AN2.C45
Daily Internet
Edition
Lexis-Nexis
Full-text articles without graphics are available retrospective to January 2,
1980.
- Hartford Courant (Daily)
- Hardcopy- Paper copies are kept until receipt of
microfilm. Library owns 1887 to present. Micro. AN2.H37
Daily Internet
Edition
Lexis-Nexis -
Most recent 6 months.
- Los Angeles Times
- Microfilm- Library receives the microfilm
edition only, and owns from February 1988 to present with about a one month lag until receipt.
Micro AN2.L67.
Daily Internet
Edition
Lexis-Nexis
Full-text articles without graphics are available from January 1, 1985.
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Historical Backfile - Full text from 1881-1984.
- Middletown Press (Monday-Saturday)
- Hardcopy- Current issues kept until receipt of
microfilm. Library owns 1919 to 1997. Micro AN2.M536
- Daily
Internet Edition
- New York Times (Daily)
- Hardcopy- Current issues of the newspaper are kept
until receipt of the microfilm. Library owns 1851 to present.
Micro AN2.N48.
Daily Internet
Edition
Lexis-Nexis
Full-text articles without graphics are available retrospective to June 1, 1980.
Abstracts only are available from January 1, 1969 through May 31, 1980.
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Historical Backfile - Full text from 1851- 2001.
- Village Voice (Weekly)
- Hardcopy- Current issues are retained until receipt of
microfilm. Library owns 1975 to present. Micro AP2.V48
Internet
Edition
- Wall Street Journal (Eastern Edition)
- Hardcopy- Current issues of the newspaper are kept
until receipt of the microfilm. Library owns 1959 to present.
Micro HG1.W2
Internet
Edition
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Factiva Available back to January 2, 1984. Lexis-Nexis
provides abstracted articles only from May 1, 1973 to present.
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Historical Backfile - Full text from 1889-1987.
- Washington Post (Daily)
- Hardcopy- Current issues kept until receipt of
microfilm. Library owns 1974 to present. Micro AN2.W38
Daily Internet
Edition
Lexis-Nexis
Full-text articles without graphics are available from January
1977 to present.
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Historical Backfile - Full text from 1877-1988.
Foreign Newspapers
- Asahi Shimbun (Weekly)
- Hardcopy- Library keeps current issue only.
Internet
Edition (English language news)
- India News (Monthly publication of the Indian Embassy,
Washington, D. C.)
- Hardcopy- Library keeps latest twelve months only.
Internet
Edition
- Izvestia (Daily, except Monday)
- Hardcopy- Library keeps latest twelve months only.
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Factiva provides abstracts only from January 1, 1994 to present.
- Japan Times (Weekly overseas edition) Library keeps
latest twelve months only.
- Hardcopy- Library keeps latest twelve months only.
Daily Internet
Edition
- Jerusalem Post
- Hardcopy- Library keeps latest three months of the Weekly
International Edition.
Internet Edition
(Daily)
Lexis-Nexis
Full-text articles without graphics are available from January 1, 1988 to present.
- Le Monde (Daily)
- Hardcopy- Current issues kept until receipt of
microfilm. Library owns 1948-1974 (Selection hebdomadaire); 1975
to present (Daily edition) Micro AN20.M65
Internet Edition
Factiva contains abstracted articles only from January 1, 1994
to present.
- Moskovie Novosti (Weekly)
- Hardcopy- Library keeps latest twelve months only.
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Factiva provides abstracted articles only from January 1, 1994
to present.
- Pravda (Weekdays)
- Hardcopy-1961-1975 available on microfilm. Micro J7.R4
- Times (London) (Daily except Sunday)
- Hardcopy- Paper kept until receipt of microfilm.
Library owns 1788 to present. Micro AN4.T46
Daily Internet
Edition
Sunday Internet
Edition
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Factiva - full-text Sunday edition, June 23, 1996 to
present
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Factiva
- full-text Daily edition, April 1, 1992 to
present.
Lexis-Nexis
Full-text articles without graphics are available from July 1, 1985 to present.
- Die Zeit (Weekly)
- Hardcopy- Library keeps most recent six months
only.
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Factiva
- Abstracts only from May 1, 1998 to June 21,
2001. Filed discontinued.
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Historical Newspaper Resources in Olin
Library
In addition to back files and Internet access to current newspapers described
above, Olin Library also has a rich collection of historical newspapers. These are mostly English language sources
dating, in some cases, to the
early seventeenth century. The historical newspaper resources
outlined below are easily accessible in the Microforms Center
located in the lower level of the library. They serve as invaluable
primary research documents for serious research in American Studies,
British and colonial history, and literature. The Schomberg Center
Clipping File is an important resource for African-American history
from 1925-1974. Here are brief descriptions of our major holdings in
this area:
- Early American Newspapers, 1690-1820. (Micro
AN2.A2)
- A collection of early American newspapers based on the History
and bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820 by Clarence
Bingham (Ref Z6951.B86). This resource is valuable for a wide
variety of academic areas especially American history and religion, journalism,
and political science from the seventeenth
through the early nineteenth centuries. The collection contains the full-text of over 700 newspaper titles, arranged by state, and
then by city. Early American Newspapers complements the Early
American Imprint series also held in the Olin Library Microforms
Center. The imprint series gives access to full-text of all books
published in the English colonies and the early United States from
1639 to 1800. Each title is fully searchable by author, title and subject
through the CTW online catalog.
- Early English Newspapers, 1603-1818. (Micro
AN4.E2)
- In 1818 the British Library, then known as the British, acquired the
newspaper collection of Dr. Charles Burney, one of the most
extensive English newspaper collections ever formed. It contained
700 volumes of English newspapers published from 1603 to 1818. The British
Library, in 1865, purchased the newspaper collection of the
Bodleian Library in Oxford. Early English Newspapers, produced by
Research Publications, Inc. brings together these two superb collections of
early English newspapers on microfilm, The gaps in one collection are filled
by the
holdings of the other. Early English Newspapers; Bibliography and
Guide to the Microfilm Collection, compiled by Susan M. Cox and
Janice L. Budeit available upon request in the Microforms Center
is a hardcover, alphabetical guide to the microfilm collection
which keys individual newspaper titles to the reel of film on
which it appears. Early English Newspapers is an important
archival record of the social, intellectual, and political history
of Europe from the seventeenth through early nineteenth centuries,
and it is an unparalleled primary resource on all aspects of the
history of that period.
- Deutsch-amerikanische Zeitungen, by Ernest
Steiger. (Micro AP31.S74)
- This four reel set of negative microfilm is a collection of
nineteenth-century German American newspapers and
periodicals.
- Schomberg
Center for Research in Black Culture.
- The Schomburg Center is one of the research libraries of the
New York Public Library. The Schomburg collection is the richest
repository of books, periodicals, and other historical materials
on African-American history and culture. The Olin Library
Microforms Center owns the following two extensive sets which give
scholars access to rare newspapers and newspaper clippings which
are important to the study of all aspects of African-American
history and civilization:
- 1. Schomburg Center clipping file, 1925-1974 (Micro
E185.5.S35 1975) The clipping file is a huge microfiche collection
of primary research material organized under about 10,000 subject
headings dealing with African-American and West Indian history. It
includes newspaper clippings, broadsides, leaflets, book reviews,
pamphlets, leaflets, and printed ephemera of all kinds. To find
specific items in this resource it is necessary to consult Index
to the Schomburg clipping file (E185.5.S35 1975 Index). This one
volume index is housed in the Microforms Center. Please consult
the attendant in the Microforms Center for the location of the
index volume, and inquire at the Reference Desk for advice on
using it efficiently.
- 2. A selection of titles from the Schomburg Center for
Research in Black Culture: series 1-2. (Micro E185.5.S36) This
is a massive collection of 599 reels of microfilm containing
full-text of African-American newspapers, periodicals and books
that would be otherwise very difficult to obtain in their original
editions. It is one of the most significant primary resources for
the serious study of African-American history in all of its
aspects, with source materials on slavery, slave trade, race,
Abolitionism, social life, customs, and literature. Each item in the
Schomburg Collection is fully searchable in the CTW catalog by author,
title, or subject. The key to finding the film of the specific item is
to make a note, from the CTW record, of the microfilm reel number on which
it is found. A companion
printed index in two volumes can also serve as a key to the collection. It is
housed in the Microforms Center (E185.5.36 Index). Please consult the attendant in the Microforms Center for the
location of the index volumes.
- Star (Johannesburg, South Africa)
- The Johannesburg Star began publication in 1887. Olin
Library owns a microfilm edition beginning in 1889 and ending in
1951. It is an excellent primary resource for the study of all
matters relating to the history of South Africa during this time
period.
Last updated on August 25, 2004
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