Video: How to Find a Particular Newspaper/Journal
- Video :How to Find a Particular Newspaper/JournalThis 5 minute video shows how to find articles from specific journals, such as NY Times, WAPO, via the library databases.
Newspaper Articles, Late 1980s to Present
- ProQuest Global Newsstream This link opens in a new windowProvides full text articles for 500 U.S. and international newspapers.
Newspapers for Local Topics
- California Newspapers (Newsbank) This link opens in a new windowProvides full text of articles from many California newspapers, most from the mid-1990s on. It also includes articles from the San Luis Obispo Tribune from 2001 to the present.
- California Digital Newspaper Collection This link opens in a new windowCDNC is a freely accessible repository of digitized California newspapers from 1846 to the present.
- Cal Poly Student Newspaper Online ArchiveKennedy Library's Special Collections has digitized original printed campus newspaper issues under various titles from 1916 to 2011.
Historic Newspapers (Often solid as primary sources)
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new windowYou can search back issues of the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times here back to the 1800s.
- San Francisco Chronicle (Historical Archive) This link opens in a new windowDigital archive offering full-text and full-image articles from the San Francisco Chronicle (1869-1984).
Looking for newer content? Search historical and current content together. - Los Angeles Sentinel (Historical Archive) This link opens in a new windowDigital archive offering full-text and full-image articles from the Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2010). The Los Angeles Sentinel is one of the oldest, largest and most influential African-American newspapers in the Western United States.
- Hispanic Life in America (Newsbank) This link opens in a new windowThis primary source collection offers a window into centuries of Hispanic American history, culture, and daily life, as well as the ways the dominant culture has portrayed and perceived people of Hispanic descent. The content is sourced from American and global news sources, including Spanish-language or bilingual publications, from the early 18th century to the present day.
- Indigenous Newspapers in North America (Adam Matthew) This link opens in a new windowFrom historic pressings to contemporary periodicals, explore nearly 200 years of Indigenous print journalism from the US and Canada. With newspapers representing a huge variety in publisher, audience and era, discover how events were reported by and for Indigenous communities.
- British Library Newspapers (Gale Primary Sources) This link opens in a new windowA primary source digital collection of British local and regional newspapers published during the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. A crucial channel of information in towns and major cities, this collection provides researchers with a unique, first-hand perspective on history. With more than 160 newspaper titles, the series is comprised of approximately 5.5 million pages of historic content, from articles to advertisements.
- San Luis Obispo Tribune (Complete Archive) This link opens in a new window
Full image digitized newspapers from 1869 to the present day. Includes San Luis Obispo Tribune (1869-1883), San Luis Obispo Daily Telegram (1906-1939), San Luis Obispo Telegram (1908-1912), San Luis Obispo Telegram-Tribune (1939-1999), and print editions of Tribune (San Luis Obispo) (1999-current) and The Cambrian (2012-2023).
- California Digital Newspaper Collection This link opens in a new windowCDNC is a freely accessible repository of digitized California newspapers from 1846 to the present.
- Chronicling AmericaMany historic American Newspapers from various eras and regions.
- Google NewspapersPartial runs of newspapers from various eras and regions in North America.
- New York State Historic NewspapersFree site of digitized historic New York newspapers; you can even click on a county, city to search for that area.
