2023 News Literacy Week (Recordings)
Finding National & International Newspapers
- World-Newspapers.comThis is a robust compendium of newspapers from around the globe. The website has been mentioned as "the best free reference website" by Reference and User Services Association (RUSA). All newspapers listed are in English.
- Newspapermap.comThis interactive map will help you locate more than 10,000 newspapers from around the world. Color coded by language the map provides a link to each publication. You can choose to read the content in it's original language or have Google translator deliver the content in English.
- 50states.comA good source for finding newspapers from all the 50 states in continental USA. The states and their corresponding newspapers are arranged alphabetically.
- NewsLinkA helpful tool for finding newspapers, magazines, TV/Radio channels and others. Sorted by state, national and type categories, among others.
- ABYZ News LinkA great gateway to newspapers from across the globe.
Today's Front Pages
- Browse/Read Today's Front Pages From Around the WorldYou can browse or read hundreds of TODAY'S newspaper front pages from around the world using this website. Titles can be viewed in either gallery, list or map modes and sorted by region using the drop-down menu. Click on any title then select the PDF tab. A more legible version will pop-up.
Finding Newspapers
This guide provides information and links for accessing current and historical newspapers. The information is available mostly online but some historical content is available on microfilm.
Below is a list of quick links to some of the Indexes & Databases the University Library subscribes to:
- Newspaper Search on "Quick Search" (Not a Database)Newspaper Search is a dedicated, separate search box in the library's discovery tool that returns results exclusively for newspaper articles, magazine articles, and news items. This meets the expectations of users who prefer not to mix newspaper articles with other scholarly content. Contains articles from both current and historical publications.
- Access World News This link opens in a new windowThis is a collection of more than 12,000 newspapers and other news sources from nearly 200 countries, from 1980 to the present. It provides full-text access to several major national and international newspapers, as well as local and regional titles. Almost 20 different languages are represented. Platform is updated daily making it good source for current events.
Click here for tutorial - Gale OneFile: News This link opens in a new windowTo find newspapers using Gale OneFile: News, please follow these steps:
1.) Click "Advanced Search"
2.) Select "Publication Search"
3.) Type the publication title in the search box. e.g., "The Washington Post"
then click the lens icon to execute the search
4.) Click on the publication title
5.) Click the dropdown years menu on the left
6.) Select the year and date you want
7.) Articles are only available in plain-text - Des Moines Register - ProQuest Access This link opens in a new windowThis database provides full-text access to the Des Moines Register. It goes back to 1999. For earlier issues dating from 1871, please use ProQuest Historical Newspapers: U.S. North Central collection.
Click here for tutorial - Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new windowContains full-text coverage for more than 1,200 newspapers, newswires, television and radio news transcripts from around the globe.
Click here for tutorial - Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new windowThis unique database provides historic and current full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the U.S. ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives, 1959-present. Strong coverage of African American, American Indian, Asian American, and Latino newspapers; also includes coverage from many other ethnic groups in the US, including Arab American, Jewish American, and ethnic European perspectives.
Click here for tutorial - Regional Business News This link opens in a new windowThis platform contains full-text material for regional business publications. Content is mainly from publishers of business news and includes newspaper articles, radio and television news transcripts, trade publications and newswires.
Click here for tutorial - Alt-Press Watch This link opens in a new windowLeveraging the freedom of independently published grassroots newspapers, magazines, and journals as a counterweight to corporate controlled mainstream media perspectives, Alt-Press Watch is the go-to place for alternative voices above the din of the profit driven news sources. With coverage dating back to 1970, the database features about a million articles from over 270 publications, offering a wide range of unfettered, critical coverage of the news.
Click here for tutorial - Factiva This link opens in a new windowSearch the world's leading business & news publications, incl. WSJ & Barron's. Includes 35,000 sources in 60 languages. Some content is unavailable to academic accounts.
- ABI/INFORM Global This link opens in a new windowThis is mainly an index of business periodicals but it also contains a few national and international newspapers including the current and past issues of the Wall Street Journal. Simply click the "Publications" tab and then select "Newspapers" on the side-bar. Articles can only be read as plain text, meaning that there are no accompanying images and other illustrations.
Media Bias Charts
- AllSides Media Bias Chart"Helps you to easily identify different perspectives so you can get the full picture and think for yourself. Knowing the political bias of media outlets allows you to consume a balanced news diet and avoid manipulation and fake news."
- Interactive Media Bias Chart (IMBC)"A data visualization that displays both bias and reliability ratings for news (and “news-like”) content. Source types now include Websites, Podcasts, and specific TV Shows."
- Blue Feed, Red Feed: See Liberal Facebook and Conservative Facebook, Side by Side"Facebook’s role in providing Americans with political news has never been stronger—or more controversial .... To demonstrate how reality may differ for different Facebook users, The Wall Street Journal created two feeds, one “blue” and the other “red.”
- Media Bias Fact Check (MBFC)"...an independent website that has promoted awareness of media bias and misinformation by rating the bias, factual accuracy, and credibility of media sources, large and small."
Your Librarian
Intersecting News & Scholarship
- JSTOR DailyThis is a free “online publication that contextualizes current events with scholarship. Drawing on the richness of JSTOR’s digital library of more than 2,000 academic journals, thousands of monographs, and other materials, JSTOR Daily stories provide background—historical, scientific, literary, political, and otherwise—for understanding our world"
Directories
- Ulrichsweb: Ulrich's Periodicals Directory This link opens in a new windowDirectory of magazines, journals (i.e. serials) ... each title includes ISSN, publisher, country of publication, start year, peer-reviewed status, where it is indexed, and more.
Click here for tutorial
Media Literacy Resources
- Media Literacy GuideThis embedded libguide contains library and online resources on media literacy. It focuses primarily on Fake News, Misinformation, Disinformation and Mal-information.