A Metropolitan Library (OKC public) database. Sign up for a library card if you don't have one. Hundreds of African American newspapers from across the United States published during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Includes Freedom's Journal, The Colored American, The North Star, The National Era, Provincial Freeman, Frederick Douglass Paper, and The Christian Recorder.

Periodicals from the Black Power, Black Arts, Black Nationalism, Separatism, and Black Feminism movements.

Part of the America's News database. American and global news sources, including over 400 current and historical Black publications.

The official newspaper of the Black Panther Party. Part of the database Black Thought and Culture.

Nearly 300 digitized African American newspapers from nearly every U.S. state.

Newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press.

A list of historical African American Newspapers available online as part of digitization projects at libraries and historical societies as well as digitization projects done by Google.

Includes these historically Black papers:
-Atlanta Daily World, 1931-2010;
-Chicago Defender, 1909-2010;
-Los Angeles Sentinel, 1934-2010;
-New York Amsterdam News, 1922-2010;
-Norfolk Journal and Guide, 1916-2010;
-Pittsburgh Courier, 1911-2010.

Part of the Gateway to Oklahoma History digital collection.

Early American newspapers. (NOTE: library does not own all the series in this collection.)

A Metropolitan Library (OKC public) database. Sign up for a library card if you don't have one. Similar to the database above, but contains different newspapers than ours.

Digital History Cooperative founded to recover and preserve rare Indigenous newspapers, photographs, and archival materials from all across Native North America.

Includes national, local, and student publications from Indigenous peoples of what is now the U.S. and Canada. In English and Indigenous languages.

Hundreds of newspapers from prisons in every state. Includes penal institutions of all kinds, with special attention paid to women-only institutions.

Includes some digitized newspapers and a directory of newspapers published 1690-present.

Newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press.

U.S. and world newspapers and business and company information. Html text only. No images. NOTE: Database opening screen is "company snapshots." Click Search > Search Builder for newspapers. Some newspapers are not available in the academic version of Factiva.

Online repository of Oklahoma history. Originally covered newspapers up to the 1920s but later years are increasingly being added. Includes African American newspapers.

(Also in paper, issues missing: 1983-1992; 2002-2006, Bizzell, 2nd floor: HQ 75 .G39.) Newspaper for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community in OKC and Tulsa. See also the webpage.

Newspapers published in parts of Canada and the United States.

Spanish and Spanish-English newspapers printed in the U.S.

Jewish newspapers from around the world, including the U.S.

Includes these U.S. papers:
-Chicago Tribune, 1849-present;
-Los Angeles Times, 1881-present;
-New York Times, 1851-present;
-Wall Street Journal, 1889-present;
-Washington Post, 1877-2007, 2008-present.
(The UK's Guardian and Observer, 1791-2003, is also included in this search as are papers from the Historically Black Newspapers collection.)

Alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines.

Alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals.

Produced by interned Japanese-Americans during World War II. In English and Japanese, typed, handwritten and drawn.

A Metropolitan Library (OKC public) database. Sign up for a library card if you don't have one. Newspaper out of Philadelphia.

A Metropolitan Library (OKC public) database. Sign up for a library card if you don't have one. U.S. and international newspapers. NOTE: Sometimes if a paper is not in Newspapers.com, it will be in this database.

A Metropolitan Library (OKC public) database. Sign up for a library card if you don't have one. Full runs and portions of runs of well-known, regional and state titles to small local newspapers in the United States and other countries. NOTE: The library edition does not have all newspapers that the personal subscription includes.

See NYTimes.com, below, for current issues.

News, business, and legal sources. Html text only. No images. NOTE: OU Libraries will cease subscribing to Nexis Uni, effective July 1, 2024. More information about this decision, as well as a list of databases covering the content in Nexis Uni, is available.

Newspapers from the 1800s.

Text only. No ads, pictures, etc.

In 1916, the Oklahoma City Times became an evening supplement to the Daily Oklahoman. In 1984, it was incorporated into the Oklahoman and ceased publication.

University of Oklahoma student newspaper. Also see The University of Oklahoma Student Newspapers Collection below.

Text only, 1981-2019. Scanned images of the paper available from 2020-present.

A Pioneer Library System (Norman) database. Sign up for a library card if you don't have one. The Oklahoman, formerly The Daily Oklahoman. Full text of images to 1991. Text only 1992-2019. NOTE: Scroll down and click on Oklahoman Archive - Newsbank. Click link for additional login options, type Pioneer for library name, and then enter your library card number. This database may not work on the OU campus.

—Update: as of 2-5-2024, the database is still available. Due to the large size of the archive, searches may need to be limited with a date range in order to return results.
Because Gannett found this database unprofitable, beginning February 3rd, 2022, the full Oklahoman Archives will no longer be available. Access to 1981-present. For other ways to access online content see this blog post.

A Metropolitan Library (OKC public) database. Sign up for a library card if you don't have one. The Oklahoman, formerly The Daily Oklahoman. Full text of images to 1991. Text only 1992-2019.

Scroll all the way to the bottom of this page for a list of digitized newspapers from various sources such as libraries and Google. Dates vary.

From Illinois. Link to freely available digitized newspaper collections.

Available through the Metropolitan Library (OKC public) Historical Newspapers collection. Sign up for a library card if you don't have one.

Collection will contain approximately 75,000 pages drawn from special collection libraries and archives around the country. Materials intended for inclusion are wide-ranging in nature: Circulars, leaflets, fliers, pamphlets, newsletters, campaign materials, protest literature, clippings, periodicals, bulletins, letters, press releases, ephemera; and meeting, demonstration, conference, and event documentation.

Historical Texas newspapers from 1850-1930.

Includes the Oklahoma Daily. The University of Oklahoma Student Newspapers Collection comprises work produced across various publications that have chronicled the evolution of the University of Oklahoma since its earliest days.

1889-2009 available on microfilm in storage.

1877-2009 available on microfilm in storage.

More than 40 African newspapers. English and foreign language titles from Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe.

Liberia's English language best-known independent national newspaper.

Includes Daily Nation (Kenya, 1958-2002), The Ethiopian Herald (Ethiopia, 1943-1989), and The Monitor (Uganda, 1992-2003)

English language digital version of the Japanese newspaper.

The press of over twenty cities is represented, spanning the Chinese mainland.

Articles published by major communist Chinese newspapers and translated into English by the CIA.

Newspapers from India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.

Newspapers from Myanmar (formerly Burma), Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam, and more.

Sixty-nine regional and local newspapers.

A key international business paper based in London, the Financial Times Historical Archive provides access to fully searchable digital reproductions of every issue from 1888-2021. Coverage includes critical financial and economic events, industry, energy, international politics, and more recently management, personal finance and the arts.

The British newspapers, Guardian, 1821-2003, and Observer, 1791-2003.

More than 1000 pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks and newspapers from the period.

Does NOT include the Sunday edition.

Over 900 newspapers from over 340 Ukrainian cities.

Originally the official organ of the former German Democratic Republic. Continues today as one of Germany’s national dailies, offering contemporary communist and socialist perspectives from German society.

Newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press.

Jewish newspapers from around the world, including the U.S.

Spanish-language daily newspaper published in the Dominican Republic. A chronicle of national and international news, both for the Dominican Republic and the broader Caribbean region.

In Spanish. Digital National Newspaper Archives of Mexico.

More than 1,000 titles from Mexico’s pre-independence, independence and revolutionary periods.

More than 35 nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American newspapers.

Puerto Rican newspaper.

Includes access to over 80 publications, including Jumhuriyah (الجمهورية, Egypt), Filastin (فلسطين, Palestine), Al Akhbar (الاخبار, Lebanon), Al Riadh (الرياض, Saudi Arabia), and Ad Dustour (الدستور, Jordan). Content is primarily in Arabic, but includes key titles in English and French.

A list of open access historical newspapers and periodicals.

Russian-language press materials translated into English.

Core titles are from Moscow and St. Petersburg, complemented by regional newspapers across the Russian Empire.

Newspapers from post-Soviet Russia.

Articles from Pravda translated into English by the CIA.

In Russian. Pravda was the official voice of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Russia) between 1918 and 1991.

U.S. government translations of foreign broadcasts, publications, and government statements. FBIS was followed by the Open Source Center (OSC) in 2005 and was included in the database World News Connection, which the library does not have. The CIA discontinued public access to the OSC in 2013.

Newspapers published in parts of Canada and the United States.

U.S. government translations of foreign language materials from regions throughout the world. Includes monographs, reports, serials, journal and newspaper articles, and radio and television broadcasts.