Newspapers @ BPL
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Please note that this list omits databases to which BU also subscribes.
- 19th Century British Newspapers (parts 1-4) Contains full runs of 120 selected newspapers from 1739 to 1950.
- 19th Century US Newspapers Features full-text content and images from numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S.. Among other titles are the Boston Daily Advertiser, 1855-1899; Boston Courier, 1826-1898; Boston Daily Atlas, 1832-1857; Liberator, 1831-1865.
- Archives Unbound Although not primarily a newspaper database, Archives Unbound includes a component of “Confederate Newspapers: A Collection from Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia and Alabama.” This collection is a mixture of issues and papers from Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, and Alabama ranging from 1861-1865. Date Range: 1860-1865
- Boston Herald (2004-2011) Within Gale’s Infotrac Student Edition database. Provides full-text articles for the Boston Herald. Full-text Coverage: 4/1/2004-11/2/2010, Index Coverage: 4/1/2004-5/16/2011.
- Boston Post (1831-1922) via Newspaper Archive Includes full-text coverage of the Boston Post, 1831-1922.
- British Library Newspapers (1741-1950) The British Library Newspapers collection contains full runs of 48 newspapers specially selected by the British Library to best represent nineteenth century Britain. This new collection includes national and regional newspapers, as well as those from both established country or university towns and the new industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing Midlands, as well as Scotland, Ireland and Wales.
- Expanded Academic ASAP From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers with full text and images.Coverage: 1980-present.
- Financial Times Historical Archive 1888-2009 The Financial Times Historical Archive delivers the complete searchable run of this City of London daily business newspaper. Every item ever printed in the paper, from 1888-2009, can be searched and browsed article by article and page by page.
- Gale Newsvault This resource allows users to simultaneously search or browse across multiple historical national and regional newspaper and periodical archive collections licensed from Gale. Collections that may be included are: 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers; 19th Century British Library Newspapers: Part 1; 19th Century British Library Newspapers: Part 2; 19th Century U.S. Newspapers; British Newspapers, Part 3: 1780-1950; Economist Historical Archive; Financial Times Historical Archive; Listener Historical Archive; Sunday Times Digital Archive; Times Digital Archive.
- General Reference Center Gold Use this general interest database to search magazines, reference books, and newspapers for information on current events, popular culture, the arts and sciences, sports, etc. Coverage: 1980-present.
- The Irish Times (1859-2012) The Historical Irish Times collection offers both full page and article digital images in PDF format with searchable full text. Also includes the Irish Weekly Times and Irish Pictorial.
- The Listener History Archive The Listener was a weekly publication, established by the BBC in 1929 as the medium for reproducing radio - and later, television - programmes in print. It is our only record and means of accessing the content of many early broadcasts.
- Slavery and Anti-Slavery: a Transnational Archive Although not primarily a newspaper database Slavery and Anti-Slavery includes a component of 170 newspapers.. Slavery and Anti-Slavery includes collections on the transatlantic slave trade, the global movement for the abolition of slavery, the legal, personal, and economic aspects of the slavery system, and the dynamics of emancipation in the U.S. as well as in Latin America, the Caribbean, and other regions.
- Sunday Times (London) Digital Archive The Sunday Times has provided thoughtful analysis and commentary on the week's news and society at large.
The BPL has numerous lists (PDF) to help patrons locate items in their extensive microfilm collections. listed on the guide Newspapers @ the BPL.These include:
- Ethnic & Racial Newspapers
US newspapers on microfilm at the Boston Public Library arranged by the ethnic or racial group for whom they were published and then by state, city and title. (PDF) - Labor Newspapers on Microfilm
- Religious Newspapers - Boston area on Microfilm (PDF)
- Massachusetts Newspapers
- Boston Neighborhood Newspapers
- Boston Newspapers
- Domestic U.S. Newspapers
- Foreign Newspapers
Compiled Newspaper sets include civil war clippings; James A. Garfield Papers; William McKinley Papers; and the Great Boston Fire of 1872, among others.
Commercial Microfilm sets include:
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Alternative Press CollectionCall Number: PN4888.U5 A55 1986x
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Hoover Institute Supplement to Underground Press CollectionCall Number: PN4888.U5 U54 1988x
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Ireland: Politics and Society Through the PressCall Number: DA905 .I683 2000x
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Irish political and radical newspapers of the twentieth centuryCall Number: AN3.I75I16
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Newspapers from the Russian Revolutionary EraCall Number: AP50 .N48x
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The Boston Public Library has always been the best area source for newspapers domestic and foreign - one of the major newspaper collections in the country. It has a rare collection of original newspaper files, in addition to an extensive collection on microfilm. (Visitors should keep in mind that the majority of files are stored off site, and several days should be allowed for retrieval.) Please also note that, except in rare cases, users will be required to use microfilm copies of the files, provided the Library owns microfilm of the newspaper. Their excellent research/ finding guide is Newspapers @ the BPL. |
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