Newspapers

ICON: Newspaper Digitization Project
Provides a freely accessible database of information for over 25,000 U.S. and international newspapers.

U.S. Historical Newspapers
This guide from Bowling Green State University provides links by state.

Chronicling America, 1880-1910
Search and view newspaper pages from 1860-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.

Historical Newspapers online
This site, compiled by the University of Pennsylvannia libraries, is a comprehensive guide listing historical newspapers by state. These historical U.S. newspapers are available online at no cost.

By going to a newspaper's website, check if free online archives are available. For example:

• Staufener Wochenblatt (1875-1968) Browsable by date.
• Sudetendeutsche Zeitung (1951-1955)
• Die Zeit (1946-present) Text only, browsable.
• BF Onlinearchiv 1922-2007 Searchable archive of a weekly Social Democrat publication.

The bibliographic indexes below allow you to identify newspaper articles from specific time periods in papers we own and in papers we do not own. If OSU does not collect a copy of the newspaper you are looking for, and you are an OSU student, faculty, or staff member, you may request a copy of a newspaper article through Inter-Library Loan if a full and accurate citation is provided to the ILL office. Submit an ILL request.

Antislavery Newspapers and Periodicals (E449 .A621)
Volume two provides an annotated index of letters in the Liberator, Anti-Slavery Record, Human Rights, and the Observer, 1835-1865.

Early American Newspapers, Series I, Online: 1690-1876
Also known as America’s Historical Newspapers. Series I offers more than 700 historical American newspapers from 23 states and the District of Columbia printed between 1690 and 1876. Focusing largely on the 18th century, Series I is based on Clarence S. Brigham’s “History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820″ and other authoritative bibliographies.

The University of Oregon Libraries maintains a large collection of newspapers published in Oregon, the United States, and around the world, both current and historical. For more information about this collection, please refer to the University of Oregon Libraries guide, Finding Newspapers http://libweb.uoregon.edu/guides/newspapers/papers.html
Access to this material would be in person at the University of Oregon's Knight Library or through interlibrary loan with very specific citation information in order to quickly and easily located a desired article.

Eugene Newspaper Index: 1855-1870 (AN .U5 E8)

Library Association of Portland Newspaper Index(AI3 .P78) Indexes issued in 1980 cover state and local news, ca. 1905-1979, from the Oregon Journal, the Oregonian (with selected indexing from the Portland Telegram (1919-1931), and the Portland Reporter (1960-1964), and retrospective indexing to 1851 from miscellaneous sources. Indexes issued in 1985- cover the Oregonian, Oregon Journal, Willamette Week, and Business Journal.

Newspaper Indexes: A Location and Subject Guide for Researchers: (REF AI3 .M5 1977)

Oregon Newspapers on Microfilm: (REF Z6952 .O7 O71 & REF Z6952 .O7 O71 1989)

Oregon Spectator (Indexes) 1846-1854 (AI21 .O7)

Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature  (REF AI3 .R4)
Sometimes refers to NY Times articles.

NEW! California Digital Newspaper Collection is a database of digitized newspapers. With coverage back to the mid-1800's titles include:

• Amador Ledger
• Black Voice News
• California Farmer and Journal of Useful Sciences
• California Star
• California Star & Californian
• Californian
• Daily Alta California
• Imperial Valley Press
• La Jolla Village News
• La Jolla Village News Readers Choice Awards
• Los Angeles Herald
• Marinscope
• Pacific Rural Press
• Placer Times
• Sacramento Daily Union
• Sacramento Transcript
• San Diego Downtown News
• San Francisco Call
• Santa Cruz Sentinel
• Sausalito News
• Trinity Journal

Here is a list of newspapers, historical and current, on microfilm at Valley Library.

Search these full-text databases for historical news:

American Periodicals Series a database of magazines and newspapers from 1740-1900. This unique and valuable collection contains digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals that originated between 1741-1900, when Andrew Bradford's American Magazine and Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine were launched. Deriving from the acclaimed American Periodicals Series microform collection, APS Online features over 1,100 periodicals spanning nearly 200 years-from colonial times to the advent of American involvement in World War II. Titles range from America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository, to popular magazines like Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal.

America's Historical Newspapers a database of newspapers from 1690-1876. Also known as Early American Newspapers, Series I, 1690-1876. This historical collection contains hundreds of historic newspapers listed in Clarence Brigham's authoritative bibliography and in additional subsequent bibliographies.

Here is a list of historical Oregon newspapers in microfilm on the 3rd floor of The Valley Library.

For locating historical citations from newspapers, you can try Google News Archive. After identifying citations, check if OSU Libraries holds the newspaper and if we don't, request it from interlibrary loan.

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