Newspapers on Microfilm
This guide is a selected list of newspapers on microfilm; please check the Local Catalog to search the library's holdings for other titles.
- See also this page for digital historical newspapers, and try a Google search on the name of the paper to see if it is has been digitized, particularly for newspapers before about 1923. See this box for current news.
- PLEASE NOTE: The Oklahoma Historical Society has the largest collection of Oklahoma newspapers. See their site for more information.
- PLEASE NOTE: only the general range of holdings is listed. For complete holdings, click on title.
Most microforms are in off-site storage: use Sooner Xpress to have materials retrieved from storage. Once you receive the microforms you requested through Sooner Xpress, there are machines on the east side of the fourth floor (see map) that will allow you to read, scan, or print from the microform. See this link for more information.
- American Indian Periodicals from the State Historical Society of WisconsinMicrofilm 1078. Click to see all titles in the collection.
- American Indian Periodicals in the Princeton University LibraryOn microfiche, call numbers vary. Click to see all titles in the collection.
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution1940-2025
- Black Chronicle (Oklahoma City)African American newspaper. 1995-2022.
- Black Dispatch (Oklahoma City)African American newspaper. 1917-1981 on microfilm. Online: 1917-1929, 1950-1959.
- Boley Progress (Boley, Oklahoma; and title variants)African American newspaper. 1905-1926
- Chicago Tribune (and title variants)1858-2009 on microfilm. Online: 1849-present.
- Christian Science Monitor1908-2007
- Confederate NewspapersMicrofilm 1304. The collection is a mixture of issues of newspapers published in Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, and Alabama between 1858 and 1866. Click to see titles.
- Contemporary Newspapers of the North American IndianMicrofilm 1093. Click to see all titles in the collection.
- Dallas Morning News1963-2024
- Early American NewspapersClick to see all titles in the collection. Most titles available online in America's Historical Newspapers
- Frankfurter Allgemeine1979-1985
- Globe and Mail (Toronto)1979-2000
- Hoover Institution Supplement to the Underground Newspaper CollectionMicrofilm 395 and guide. Supplements the Underground Newspaper Collection (below) with previously missing issues of 88 alternative press titles and 178 new titles. See a list of titles in the supplement.
- Houston Post (and title variants)1883-1995
- Izvestii͡a (Moscow)1970-1991
- Japanese Camp NewspapersLink is to digital edition from Library of Congress. Microfilm 177.
- Journal Record (Oklahoma City)1985-2022. Online: Apr 2, 1985 - present (delayed 1 week)
- Le Monde (Paris)1944-2024
- Los Angeles Times (and title variants)1881-2009 on microfilm. Online: 1881-present.
- Marcha (Montevideo, Uruguay)1939-1972 on microfilm. Paper: Nichols Collection, 1939-1966
- Miscellaneous Collection of Articles from Newspapers on 19th Century Labor History in EnglandMicrofilm 480. Articles from a collection of newspapers in the Newcastle Central Library.
- Newspapers from the Russian Revolutionary EraClick to see all titles in the collection.
- New York Amsterdam News (and title variants)African American newspaper. 1922-1967 on microfilm. Online: 1922-2010.
- New York Herald1840-1966.
- New York Times (and title variants)1851-2009 on microfilm. Online: 1851-present. Also see NYTimes.com. An account is required to access NYTimes.com; click here to set up your account.
- Norman Transcript--1889-July 2022. 4th floor East, outside former Government Documents Department.
--Online 2008-present. (Text only.) - Oklahoma Daily (OU student newspaper)4th floor East, outside former Government Documents Department. 1911-2018.
Online:
--All OU student papers see University of Oklahoma Student Newspapers (1905-2017).
--Oklahoma Daily (1916-2017). - Oklahoma Eagle (Tulsa)African American newspaper.
1939-2019 - Oklahoman (and title variants; Oklahoma City newspaper)1894-2024 on microfilm. For ways to access online content see this blog post.
- Pravda (Moscow)1970-2023 on microfilm. Online: 1912-2024.
- Times (London; see also the Sunday Times)1785-2025 on microfilm. Online: 1785-2019.
- Tulsa World1906-2018. Online 1989-present. (Text only.)
- Underground Newspaper CollectionClick to see all titles in the collection. U.S. and British alternative/underground newspapers from 1963-1985. Also known as the UMC [Missouri-Columbia] Library Underground Newspaper Collection. Also see Hoover Institution Supplement, above.
- Wall Street Journal1889-2009 on microfilm. Online: 1889-present. Also see Wall Street Journal (current) Users must create an account using their OU credentials in order to use this resource and will need to refresh their access on an annual basis.
- Washington Post (and title variants)1877-2009 on microfilm. Online: 1877-present.
- Zeit (Hamburg, Germany)1946-2022