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Research By Subject - News Sources
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Newsbank Tennessee Newspaper Collection: Offers full-text of the following Tennessee newspapers: Chattanooga Times-Free Press (12/14/2006 - Current), The Commercial Appeal (6/27/1990 - Current), and the Knoxville News Sentinel (1991 - Current).

Lexis-Nexis Academic News Search: Covers top news, general news topics, and news transcripts; foreign language news sources; company, industry, and market news; legal news, reviews, and more. For foreign language news sources or for foreign news in English from LNA, see the INTERNATIONAL NEWS section below.

National Newspaper Index: Provides quick access to the indexing of America's top five newspapers in one seamless search: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post.

Custom News Database: Indexes 650+ national and international newspapers, with much available in fulltext. Also includes text-to-voice reading software, and the ability to download the audio to an MP3 player.

Plough Library receives copies of

  • The Commercial Appeal
  • The Wall Street Journal
  • USA Today
  • The Christian Science Monitor
  • National Catholic Reporter
  • The Chronicle of Higher Education
  • The Tri-State Defender
  • The Daily News
  • Memphis Business Journal

The most recent issues are displayed on the newspaper stands on the Main (2nd) Floor of Plough Library.

Older issues are kept for 2 months in the Buccup on the Library's 1st Floor.

LOCAL NEWSPAPER WEBSITES NATIONAL NEWSPAPER WEBSITES

REMEMBER: if you need articles from back issues of newspapers, check the Library's Journal Finder to see they are covered by any databases; just search by the title of the newspaper. Newspapers' own web sites generally give access to the past 30 days-worth of articles only.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS RESOURCES

 Foreign Language News

Historic Newspapers

  • Chronicling America: Digital collection of historic American newspapers from the Library of Congress--includes the Memphis Daily Appeal.
OTHER NEWS SOURCES
  • CQ Researcher, CQ Global Researcher, and CQ Researcher Blog: Sources of in-depth overviews on current events, hot topics, and timely issues.
  • Documents in the News: Background documents to enhance news comprehension.
  • EurekAlert: Science news.
  • Google News Archive: Search for historic news. (Although the existing archive will remain available, Google will no longer be adding content or functionality to the site.)
  • Google News Timeline: Unfortunately, Google no longer supports the News Timeline.
  • LexisNexis U.S. Politics & World News: Latest news stories from over 4,000 U.S. and International news sources.
  • Newspaper Map: Geographic directory to current and historic newspapers available online.
  • NewsWise: Press releases in science, medicine, and business (current 30 days with archive).
  • Newseum: Front pages from newspapers around the world, posted daily.
  • Opinion Pages: Editorials from newspapers and magazines.

NOTE: Each Research by Subject page includes links to subject-specific news sources.