Links for Historical Research – for Secondary Sources
- CONSORT (request books from other CONSORT schools, takes about 4 days)
- OhioLINK (request books, takes about 10 days)
- Worldcat (at worldcat.org, can order books using ILLiad, details at borrowing)
- Academic Search Complete (combined databases, from ebscohost)
- JSTOR
- Databases at the College of Wooster Library (a full list of all databases)
- America:History and Life (ebsco, subsets of Academic Search Complete)
- Historical Abstracts (ebsco, subsets of Academic Search Complete)
- Summon (the lazy person’s search engine! search all catalogs and databases at once)
Links for Reference Works – For Initial Research
- Quick Reference Page at COW (dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, at COW library)
- Gale Virtual Reference Library (historical encyclopedias and more, from Ohiolink)
- Literary Reference Center (at EBSCOhost)
- Oxford Reference Premium Online
Major News Archives
- Chronicling America at the Library of Congress
- Wikipedia List of Online News Archives
- WorldPressReview
- Project Gutenberg (Online Book Catalog)
- Hathi Trust Digital Archive
- Google Book Search
- America’s (Newsbank) (1980s to present, 2k+ sources)
- Gale Newsvault (multiple news databases 17th c. to present)
- British Library Newspapers (Gale database)
- Full listing of Gale databases
- Proquest News and Newspapers (cross-search Proquest news databases, includes Chicago Defender, LA Times, NYTimes, Times of India)
- Newspaper Source (EBSCOhost, recent news, 40 US newspapers, hundreds of local papers, some radio and tv transcripts)
- Proquest Databases (29 databases including American newspapers, British periodicals, early English books online, global news, ethnic newswatch, and much more)
- Google News Archive
Single-Paper Archives
- Harper’s Weekly
- London Times Digital Archive (1785-)
- Guardian (UK) (digital archive at Newspapers.com)
- The Japan Times Archive (1897-2015) (from COW database)
- The Sunday Times (London) (Gale) (1822 – 2006)
- Times of India (1838-2007) (Proquest, from Ohiolink)
- New York Times with Index (1851-2013) (Proquest, from Ohiolink)
- Los Angeles Times (1881-1993) (Proquest, from Ohiolink)
- Chicago Defender (1909-1975) (Proquest, from Ohiolink)
- Chicago Tribune (1985-current) (Proquest, from Ohiolink)
Multiple-Paper Archives
HISTORICAL NEWS ARCHIVES
- Burney Collection Newspapers 17th and 18th c. (Gale database, from Ohiolink)
- Eighteenth-Century Online (Gale database, from Ohiolink)
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online (Gale database, from Ohiolink)
- Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers (Gale database, from COW database) (1801 – 1899)
- Ohio’s Digitized Newspapers (part of Ohio Memory Project)
- Chronicling America at the Library of Congress
- America’s Historical Newspapers (1690 – Recent past) (NewsBank, from COW database)
CONTEMPORARY NEWS ARCHIVE
- Newspapers Expanded (Proquest Newspapers, from COW database): the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites
- Newsstand (Proquest, from COW database): 1300 newspapers, news websites, and blogs from leading publishers worldwide, with recent backfiles
- America’s News (Early 1980s – present) (NewsBank, from COW database): full-text newspapers articles from 2004+ sources from 53 states and territories
CONTENT-SPECIFIC ARCHIVES
- The African-American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920
- African-American Newspapers, Series I (1827-1998) (NewsBank, from COW database): Covers life in the Antebellum South through the Civil Rights movement, etc.
- Columbus News Index: news articles covering people, places, and events in Franklin County and its surrounding counties. The index includes abstracts only of selected articles from 1960-1997 and obituaries from 1932-1997
- Independent Voices: alternative press newspapers, magazines, and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were 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 during the latter half of the 20th century
- Black Studies Center (Proquest, from COW database): full-text backfile of the influential black newspapers
- Ethnic NewsWatch (ProQuest, from COW database): journals, magazines, and newspapers from ethnic and minority presses
- Readers’ Guide Retrospective (1890-1982) (EBSCOhost, from COW database): popular and general-interest magazines published in the United States
- Women’s Magazine Archive (Proquest) (late 19th century – 2005): full backfiles of leading women’s interest consumer magazines.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS ARCHIVES
- Global Newsstream (ProQuest, from COW database): the most recent global news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring content from newspapers, news wires, and news sites
- World News Connection (Eastview) (from COW database): news from around the world, translated into English, obtained from newspaper articles, television and radio broadcasts, online sources, conference proceedings, periodicals, and non-classified reports
- The Handwritten Newspapers Project (59 BC-AD 2011): bibliographical data, images, resource links, and research notes for hundreds of rare manuscript publications produced under extraordinary conditions in remarkable settings
- Biafran Database: items from African newspapers, photographs, interviews, archival materials, declassified intelligence reports, thesis, dissertations, etc.
- The European Library – Newspapers
- Newspaper Abstracts: newspaper abstracts and extracts from eight countries (United States, Canada, Ireland, Scotland, Australia, England, Norway, Wales)
Foreign Language Archives
- Gallica Digital Library (at the French National Library)
- Petit Journal Illustré Online (1890-1930) (select year on left under les journaux, année)
- Le Monde (Paris, France, since 1987)
- Biblioteca Digital Hispánica (at the Spanish National Library)
- Frankfurter Allgemeine Archiv (Frankfurt, Germany, since 1993)
- taz – die tageszeitung (Berlin, Germany, since 1986)
- El Pais (Madrid, Spain, since 1976)
Photographs and Art
Broadcast News
- Wikipedia List of Online News Archives
- Radio News (by correspondent and by event, at “Radio Days”)
- Vanderbilt Television News Archive (since 1968)
- Foreign Broadcast Information Service (1975-1996)
- World War II Era Audio Recordings (at archive.org)
- Radio News from the 1960s (at archive.org)
- BBC Archive (British Broadcasting Corp, 1930s to present)
- CBC Digital Archives (Canada Broadcasting Corporation)