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Title and Description	Some Fulltext	Coverage
17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers (Gale)		17th-18th centuries
Digitized versions of the British Library's Burney Collection. Includes newspapers, newsbooks, pamphlets, addresses, broadsides, proclamations, Acts of Parliament, etc.
19th Century British Library Newspapers (Gale)		1800-1900
Full runs of selected 19th-Century British newspapers including national and regional papers and those from established country or university towns and the manufacturing Midlands as well as Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Includes newspapers that helped lead political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism, and Home Rule and penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes.
Alt-Press Watch (Proquest)		1995-current
Full-text newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press.
Alternative Press Index (FirstSearch)		1991-current
Indexes alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines covering cultural, economic, political and social change.
America's Historical Newspapers (Newsbank)		1690-1922
Currently includes text of early American newspapers. If using Firefox as your browser, use the Firefox Print command, not the Adobe (or Preview) Print option.
Black Studies Center (Proquest)
Gateway to Black Studies: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP), historical black newspapers, and the Black Literature Index.
C19 The Nineteenth Century Index
Integrated access to indexes for nineteenth-century books, periodicals, official documents, newspapers and archives: Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, The Wellesley Index, Poole's Index and Periodicals Index Online, as well as indexing British Periodicals Collections I and II.
Communications and Mass Media Complete (Ebsco)		1915 (a few titles) - current
Communications and mass media
CQ Researcher (Congressional Quarterly)		1991-current
Reports and analysis on political and social issues in the news. Regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy. Includes background and chronology, tables and maps, opposing viewpoints, and bibliographies. Limited to 5 simultaneous users
Custom Newspapers (Gale)		1996-current
Covers over 100 national and international newspapers.
Ethnic Newswatch (Proquest)		1990-current
Newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses
Ethnic Newswatch: A History (ProQuest)		1960-1989
Full-text of newspapers of the U.S. ethnic and minority press in both English and Spanish.
FBIS Daily Reports		1974-1996
Comprehensive media reports (news, interviews, speeches and editorial commentary) translated into English that offer foreign views and perspectives on historical events.
LexisNexis Academic (Lexis-Nexis)		Dates vary
Includes general news, business, legal (law reviews and case law) and medical information. Also includes reference works such as biographical information, polls & surveys, quotations, state profiles, and country profiles.
Los Angeles Times (Proquest)		1986-current
Indexing from 1986-current. Full-text from 12/4/96.
Nation Archive (Ebsco)		1865-
America's oldest weekly magazine and journals of opinion, covering politics, culture, books and the arts
National Newspaper Index (Gale)		1977-current
Covers 5 major U.S. newspapers: New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post.
National Newspaper Index (Proquest)		1977-current
Covers 27 major papers.
New York State Newspapers (Gale)		1996-current
Papers covered: Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY) Herald American (Syracuse, NY) Herald-Journal (Syracuse, NY) Journal News (Westchester, NY) New York Observer (New York, NY) New York Post (New York, NY) New York Times (last 365 days only) Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) Press & Sun-Bulletin (Binghamton, NY) Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, NY)
New York Times (Proquest)		1986-current
Full-text only last four years.
New York Times Historical File (Proquest)		1851-1999
Printing only works on PCs.
Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers (Gale)		1800-1900
Contains full runs of 48 newspapers specially selected by the British Library to best represent nineteenth century Britain. 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. Special attention was paid to include newspapers that helped lead particular political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism, and Home Rule. The penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes are also present in the collection."
Poughkeepsie Journal (NewsBank)		1999-current

Poughkeepsie Journal (Latest Week)

Times Digital Archive (Gale)		1785-1985
Times (London) digital edition with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos. Limited to 1 user at a time. Printing tips: http://library.vassar.edu/resources/databases/tdaprinting.html
Wall Street Journal (Proquest)		1986-current

Wall Street Journal Historical File (Proquest)		1889-1985