Tips on Locating Newspapers
This tab will help you locate newspaper databases that contain PDF page image version of stories. Note that Westlaw and LexisNexis contain many newspapers, but they are not in PDF page image format.
Locating Newspaper in Print and Microfilm
- OU Libraries CatalogUse the library catalog to search for print and microfilm versions of newspapers.
Locating Newspaper Stories
PDF versions of newspapers are difficult to find. Only a few major newspapers have historical archives. Use the library catalog link on the left to locate microfiche and print versions of newspapers that are not available online in PDF page image format.
- America's Historical Newspapers(01/01/1690 - 12/31/1922)
Features early American newspapers with cover-to-cover reproductions of hundreds of historic newspapers, providing more than one million pages of full text, searchable facsimile images - New York Times Archives(01/01/1851 - 12/31/2008)
Archives the historical New York Times, including full page digital reproductions of every page from all available issues. Full text available. - Wall Street Journal Historical Archives(01/01/1877 - 1990 )
Archives the historical Washington Post, including full page digital reproductions of every page from all available issues. Full text available. - Chicago Tribune Historical Archive(01/01/1849 - 12/31/1987)
Archives the historical Chicago Tribune, including full page digital reproductions of every page from all available issues. Full text available. - Los Angeles Times Historical Archive(01/01/1881 - 1986)
Archives the historical Los Angeles Times, including full page digital reproductions of every page from all available issues. Full text available. - Washington Post Historical Archive(01/01/1877 - 1990)
Archives the historical Washington Post, including full page digital reproductions of every page from all available issues. Full text available - Newspaper Source PlusNote - this database does not contain PDF page image versions of most newspapers. Indexes and abstracts over 170 newspapers and related sources, including 140 regional U.S. newspapers, eighteen international newspapers, six newswires, nine newspaper columns, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Los Angeles Times. Some full text available.