News Sources

News Sources Subject Guide

Newspaper Directories
Indexes & Databases
Internet Sites


Newspaper Directories

Europa World Year Book
--Ready Reference-- JN 1 .E85
Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media
--Ready Reference-- Z 6951 .A97
The Louisiana Newspaper Project Printout
--Ready Reference-- Z 6945 .L68


Indexes and Databases

Alternative Press Index-- Indexes international alternative, radical and left newspapers and magazines covering cultural, economic, political and social change.

Bayou State Periodical Index-- Indexes articles in popular Louisiana magazines and newsletters.

Business Source Complete-- Indexes, abstracts and provides full-text of articles from magazines and scholarly journals, industrial/technological periodicals, company and industry profiles, country economic data, accounting standards, encyclopedic dictionaries and handbooks.

CountryWatch.com-- Provides Country Reviews, 50-100 page reports with demographic, historical, political, economic, business and environmental background and contemporary issues for 191 countries and Country Wire, daily news from 12 international news services.

LEXIS®-NEXIS® Academic-- Provides full-text of: U.S. and international newspapers; business, industry and market news; accounting literature; company financial reports and profiles; legal news and reviews; state and federal case law; state, U.S., Canadian, Commonwealth and E.U. codes and regulations; patents; medical news and journals; state and country profiles; biographies and quotations; polls and surveys and a world almanac.

The New York Times Index, 1851-present
--Ready Reference-- AI 21 .N45

Regional Business News-- Indexes, abstracts and provides full-text articles from regional business journals, newspapers and newswires across the United States. Louisiana publications include the Greater Baton Rouge Business Report and New Orleans CityBusiness.

The Times-Picayune Index, 1972-present
--Ready Reference-- AI 21 .T66 N49

Wall Street Journal-- Indexes, abstracts and provides full-text of selected articles from The Wall Street Journal from 1984 to present.


Internet Sites

ABC News -- Online news, breaking news, feature stories, and more.

The Associated Press -- The essential global news network.

Cable News Network -- Search the latest top stories and breaking news.

CBS News -- Online news, breaking news, feature stories, and more.

FOX News Network -- Online news, breaking news, feature stories, and more.

Louisiana Newspaper Project -- This page, maintained by LSU Libraries Special Collections, provides access to Louisiana newspapers around the state.

Media Matters for America -- A not-for-profit progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.

MSNBC -- Online news, breaking news, feature stories, and more.

NewsDirectory.com -- Search for magazines and newspapers by title or browse by country.

NewsLibrary.com -- The world's largest news archive. Including 393 newspapers and other news sources.

Sims Library Serials Department Newspapers on the Web -- This page, maintained by the Sims Memorial Library Serials Department, provides links to selected U.S., International, Louisiana online newspapers.

Television News Archive -- A guide to the Vanderbilt University collection of network television news programs.



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