Guides: Journalism: Databases

Ebsco MegaFILE

EBSCO databases

All of these databases can be searched together as one. No matter which one you "come in on," once in, look for "Choose Databases" at the top to see the full list of databases; click on the ones that pertain to your topic before starting your query.

Alternative Press Index
Indexes over 250 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines, 1991- present.
Alternative Press Index Archive
Index of journals (1969-1990) covering cultural, economic, political & social change
America: History and Life
A bibliographic database indexing books, book chapters, and over 1,800 journals relating to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.

Communication Source
Offers abstracts and indexing as well as full-text content from publications worldwide pertaining to Communication, Linguistics, Rhetoric and Discourse, Speech-Language Pathology, Media Studies and other fields relevant to the discipline. Includes Communication Abstracts and Communication and Mass Media Complete.

EBSCO MegaFILE
General, multidisciplinary periodical database, covering all scholarly disciplines, with many general and popular magazines, and news sources. Includes bibliographic citations with indexing and abstracts for more than 16,000 periodicals.
Historical Abstracts
Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada).
Left Index
Bibliographic citations for the "literature on the left". Topics include anarchism, art and esthetics, community organizing, culture studies, ecology and environmental studies, economics, gay and lesbian studies, globalization, history, indigenous people's rights, labor, law, philosophy, politics, prisons and criminal justice, race and ethnicity, social theory and sociology, and women's studies and feminism.
MLA International Bibliography
Covers literature, languages, folklore, and linguistics. Includes English and foreign languages.

Nation Archive Premium Edition
Full text of America's oldest weekly magazine of opinion since its inception in 1985, long regarded as one of the country's definitive journalist voices on politics, culture, books, and the arts.
The New Republic Archive
Full text of a leading journal of opinion, politics, foreign policy and culture since 1914
The National Review Archive
Full text of a leading journal of public opinion since its inception in 1955.
Time Magazine Archive
Cover to cover capture of the American popular magazine, Time, published by Time, Inc. since 1923.

Databases--News

Accessible Archives
Accessible Archives offers several historic collections, from African American newspapers to Civil War periodicals.
Alt-Press Watch
Provides fulltext for U.S. alternative and independent newspapers, weeklies, magazines, and journals. Topics include the arts, media and popular culture, business and labor, literature and criticism, politics, government and public policy, from 1990 to present.
Ethnic NewsWatch
Full text, comprehensive archival database providing access to more than 400,000 articles in nearly 200 ethnic, minority and native press newspapers, magazines, and journals. Full text archive of Phila Tribune, Jewish Exponent , and nearly 200 other ethnic, minority and native press newspapers, magazines, and journals -- both English and Spanish.
Factiva
Current and historical news from thousands of publications worldwide in over 20 languages. Company overviews and stock data are available for public companies.
FBIS: Foreign Broadcast Information Service Electronic Index (1975-1996)
Contemporary coverage of political, economic, scientific, and cultural issues and events worldwide, relying upon international and local language news sources. The FBIS Electronic Index provides access to the FBIS Daily Reports microfiche collection by subject (including personalities), date, country, and region.
Newsbank Access World News
Searchable fulltext of international and U.S. national, regional, and local newspapers. Coverage for current issues (i.e., yesterday in most cases) with extensive backfiles. Business and Management, Communication, Education, Philadelphia Studies, Political Science, Public Policy and Administration, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences, Sociology, Urban Studies.
Nexis Uni
Access to full-text national and international newspapers , including the New York Times. News sources also include magazines, broadcast transcripts, wire services, and Congressional publications
PressReader
The last 60 days of 225 newspapers from 55 countries.
Proquest Historical Newspapers
Multi-database search interface that allows for simultaneous searching of the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Defender, Pittsbugh Courier and Wall Street Journal
World News Connection
English translations of non-U.S. media sources.
World Newspaper Archive
Searchable page image reproductions of pre-1923 newspapers, worldwide. Based largely upon the holdings of the Center for Research Libraries, these newspapers are released in regional collections.

Multimedia/Broadcasting Databases

Vanderbilt Television News Archive
Searchable abstracting service for national television network news broadcasts. CNN and NBC broadcasts available as RealMedia video streams, 1998-present. VTNA lends videotapes of broadcasts or item compilations to individuals for a fee
AP Photo Archive
Contains over one million Associated Press photographs (with searchable captions) in two collections, downloadable as JPEG (jpg) images: North American national, regional, state, and local photos with "the best international photos"; Euro/Asian photos.
American History in Video
Rich collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion. The collection includes commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries.

Open Access Digital News Archives

Chronicling America
CJR’s Guide to Online News Startups
Independent Voices
Open access collection of the alternative press of the 60s, 70s and 80s, over 1000 titles from the special collections of over a dozen libraries
JTA Jewish Newspaper Archive
NewspaperCat
TV News Archive (Internet Archive)
Clips from Television news shows since 2009.

International Coalition on Newspapers (ICON)

Newspaper digitization projects
Links to past, present, and prospective digitization projects of historic newspapers.
by country and in the United States by state.

Proquest Databases

All of these databases can be searched together as one. No matter which one you "come in on," once in, look for "Databases" at the top to see the full list of database options; click on the ones that pertain to your topic before starting your query.

Sociological Abstracts
Covers sociology, case work, demographics, policy studies, political science, family studies, feminist studies, and social security programs.
Alt-Press Watch
1970- present.
American Periodicals Series Online 1740-1900
Includes digitized images of the pages of 1,100 American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century.
Humanities Index
Abstracting and indexing tool for research in the humanities, covering over internationally respected humanities journals and weekly magazines published in the UK and other English speaking countries, as well as quality newspapers published in the UK.
An abstracting and indexing tool for research in the humanities, Humanities Index covers over 320 humanities journals and weekly magazines published in the UK and other English speaking countries, as well as quality newspapers published in the UK. Topics include architecture, archaeology, art, antiques, education, economics, foreign affairs, environment, cinema, current affairs, gender studies, history, language, law, linguistics, literature, music, painting, philosophy, poetry, political science, religion, and theatre.
Ethnic NewsWatch
Full text, comprehensive archival database providing access to more than 400,000 articles in nearly 200 ethnic, minority and native press newspapers, magazines, and journals.
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
Bibliographic citations and subject indexing for the international journal article and book literature in anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology.
GenderWatch
GenderWatch, formerly titled Women 'R', contains 40,000 articles from more than 100 journals, magazines, newsletters, special reports, unpublished papers and conference proceedings devoted to gender and women's issues.
Proquest Historical Newspapers
Full text going back to first editions for these papers: Chicago Defender, Chicago Times, Los Angeles Times, New York Amsterdam News, New York times, Philadelphia Tribune, Pittsburgh Courier, The Times of India, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post.

Kantar Media

Also known as Standard Rate and Data Service (SRDS)
Advertising rates and information for magazines, newspapers, radio, television, and out-of-home. Search by media type or designated market area