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Newspapers

In Paper

The Boston Globe and the Boston Herald are available in paper on the second floor of Snell Library

See a list of foreign language newspapers and magazines available in paper in Snell Library

Online Newspaper Collections:

• America's Historical Newspapers (1690 - 1922) (Boston Public Library Card required for access.)
  

  Includes "Early American Newspapers, Series I, II & III" and features cover-to-cover fully text-searchable facsimile images of over 1,000 historical newspapers from all 50 states from the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. Access courtesy of Boston Public Library.

• Dow Jones Factiva, with the Wall Street Journal, Barron's and hundreds of other titles, mostly with text and not pictures or charts
• Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe (good for finding full text, but does not provide pictures or charts)
• Massachusetts Newsstand (Proquest) (Current NU Only)
  Boston Globe (1980-current), Boston Herald (7/26/1991-current), BusinessWest, Gazette (Haverhill), Lowell Sun, North Adams Transcript, Patriot Ledger, Plymouth County Bulletin, Sentinel and Enterprise (Firchburg), Standard Times, Worcester Telegram & Gazette
• Press Display which displays pictures and page layout of the complete paper, international titles and many languages

Popular Individual Newspapers

• Access World News (Current NU Only)
  Provides full-text English language coverage of U.S. and international media reports.
• Boston Globe 1980-present (Proquest Mass Newsstand) (Current NU Only)
  
• Boston Globe 1988 - present (Lexis-Nexis) (Current NU/not available to Law affiliates)
  
• Boston Globe, 1872-1924 (Boston Public Library Card required for access.)
  The Historical Boston Globe collection offers both full page and article digital images in PDF format with searchable full text back to the first issue. Access courtesy of Boston Public Library.
• Boston Herald 1991 - present (Proquest Mass Newsstand) (Current NU Only)
  Full text from 1991 - present
• Boston Herald, 1991 - present (Lexis-Nexis) (Current NU/not available to Law affiliates)
  
• New York Times (1980-present) (NU Only)
  Online full text of the NY Times from 1980 to the present is available from Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
  
  Print Locations Snell 2nd floor:
  locate and copy complete articles from 1851 to six weeks ago in the Snell Library Microforms Department, and a six-week paper backfile is in Current Periodicals.
• New York Times (Gale) (Current NU Only)
  Search the full text of The New York Times starting in 1995. (Does NOT include the Book Review.)
• New York Times, Historical (1851 - 2004) (Current NU Only)
  The Historical New York Times collection offers both full page and article digital images in PDF format with searchable full text back to the first issue.
• Times Digital Archive (Current NU Only)
  London Times access *not including the Sunday edition* from 1785 to 1985. An invaluable source for primary historical research.
• Wall Street Journal
  Available from Dow Jones Factiva. Click on "sources" to limit your results to WSJ articles only.