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Current Newspaper Databases via URI
- Nexis Uni (LexisNexis) This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? News, law, and business information service. Includes news from national and international newspapers; wire services and articles from hundreds of periodicals; and a number of other reference sources. All sources are full-text. Updated daily.
- Providence Journal (Newsbank) This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? Articles from the Providence Journal. Searchable page images available for 1829-1982 and 2017 to present. Full text available from 1981 to present.
- What dates are covered? 1829 - Present.
Newspaper Archives Available via URI Databases
- African American Newspapers Series 1 and 2, 1827-1998 (America's Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? More than 350 U.S. newspapers covering a century and a half of the African American experience. Includes historically significant papers from more than 35 states and features many rare 19th-century titles.
What dates are covered? 1827-1998
- African Newspapers, Series 1 and 2 (World Newspaper Archive) This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? Online access to more than 100 historical African newspapers. Created in partnership with the Center for Research Libraries and its contributing members, this collection provides news and perspectives from a wide range of counties and cultures and chronicles the evolution of Africa through eyewitness reporting, editorials, legislative information, letters, poetry, advertisements, obituaries and other items.
- What dates are covered? 1800-1925
- Indigenous Newspapers in North America (AM) This link opens in a new window
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- What's included? Publications from a range of North American indigenous communities, with an extensive list of periodicals produced in the United States and Canada, including Alaska, Arizona, British Columbia, California, Nevada and Oklahoma.
- What dates are covered? 1828-2016
- American Prison Newspapers, 1800-2020: Voices from the Inside (Reveal Digital) This link opens in a new window
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- What's included? Hundreds of newspapers, from across the country, published within prisons by incarcerated persons. Represented in the collection are penal institutions of all kinds, with special attention paid to women's-only institutions.
- What dates are covered? 1800-2020
- American Underworld: The Flash Press (Newsbank) This link opens in a new window
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- What's included? More than sixty newspapers from the collections of the American Antiquarian Society. The Flash Press arose and crested between the 1830s and the 1850s. These papers covered the seamier aspects of urban life: crime, scandal, brothels, and blackmail, combined with reviews of the bawdiest theatrical performances on offer and reports on sporting events such as cock-fighting, boxing and horse racing.
- What dates are covered? 1826-1868
- Documenting White Supremacy and Its Opponents in the 1920s (Reveal Digital) This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? Newspapers promoting and opposing white supremacy, published mainly in the 1920s. It brings together for the first time local, regional, and national newspapers published by Klan organizations and by sympathetic publishers from across the US. It also includes key anti-Klan voices from newspapers published by American Black, Catholic, and Jewish communities.
- What dates are covered? 1920s
- Early American Newspapers (America's Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? This growing digital collection of early American newspapers contains thousands of titles from all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The URI Libraries offer Series 1-13 and 18. For descriptions of the different Series, see Early American Newspapers by Series.
- What dates are covered? 1690 - 1922
- Financial Times Historical Archive (Gale Primary Sources) This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? Digitized issues of The Financial Times of London (ISSN: 0307-1766).
- What dates are covered? 1888 - 2021
- Independent Voices (Reveal Digital) This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? Digital collection of the alternative press including newspapers, magazines and journals drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals and the New Left, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBTs, anarchists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines. When completed, the Collection will represent complete runs of over 1,000 titles and 1,000,000 pages.
- What else should I know? The content will become open access in January 2019 or sooner.
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Black Newspapers (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? Primary source material essential to the study of American history and African-American culture, history, politics, and the arts. URI's collection includes page image and full-text access to the Atlanta Daily World; Baltimore Afro-American; Chicago Defender; Cleveland Call & Post; Kansas City Call; Los Angeles Sentinel; Louisville Defender; Michigan Chronicle; New York Amsterdam News; Norfolk Journal and Guide; Philadelphia Tribune; Pittsburgh Courier; and the St. Louis American.
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Le Monde (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? Page image and full-text of the French-language newspaper Le Monde from 1944-2000.
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Leftist Newspapers and Periodicals (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? Collection of English-language newspapers and periodicals spanning the 20th century covering Communist, Socialist and Marxist thought, theory, and practice. Comprised of over 140 titles.
- What dates are covered? 1900-2010.
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Boston Globe (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? Page image and full-text index to The Boston Globe. Additional year of content added annually.
- What dates are covered? 1872 - 2007.
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times with Index (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? Page image and full-text index to The New York Times. Additional year of content added annually.
- What dates are covered? 1851 - 2018.
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Wall Street Journal (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? Page image and full-text index to The Wall Street Journal. Additional year of content added annually.
- What dates are covered? 1889 - 2004.