Newspapers at the UGA Libraries: How To...

For online coverage through UGA subscriptions:

Thousands of newspapers are available full-text online through UGA Libraries database subscriptions, with both current and historical coverage. To find a specific newspaper, search for the newspaper title in the Find Journal by Title search tool, which will show you links to online databases that provide full-text articles. The display also indicates the specific years of full-text coverage available from each database.
 

For newspapers on microfilm at UGA:

A large collection of newspapers on microfilm is located in the basement of the UGA Main Library, organized by call number. To find newspapers available on microfilm at the UGA Libraries, search the Unified Newspaper Database or use the Find Journal by Title search tool. The Unified Newspaper Database offers convenient search features that let you target newspapers from a particular city, county, or time period. Please note that we may not have all the issues of a newspaper for a particular year – the Find Journal by Title search tool will provide the most detailed list of specific issues available on microfilm, if there are some issues missing. The UGA Libraries do not retain paper issues of newspapers.

Another useful resource is our guide to African-American Newspapers on Microfilm at the UGA Libraries which includes listings by title, by state, and chronologically.
 

Look for free digitized historical newspapers online:

Search NewspaperCat (Catalog of Digital Historical Newspapers) by title or location.
 

Don't know a specific newspaper title? 

• The holdings list of the Georgia Newspaper Project lists GA newspaper titles by city or county, and can be useful for tracing title changes as local papers combined.
• The Unified Newspaper Database is searchable by location. Enter a city, county, or state to view a list of newspapers available on microfilm.
• Try a keyword search in our GIL library catalog for the location name and "newspapers".

Current or Recent News

If you are not looking for a specific newspaper but just want to find some news articles on a topic, you can search these large databases to find full-text news articles from thousands of different newspapers, ranging from today's latest headlines going back several decades:

• Global Newsstream 
• Access World News 
• Gale OneFile 
• Factiva
• Newspaper Source Plus 

Historical News

The UGA Libraries offer access to many online databases that provide full-text articles from historical newspapers.

• Historical Newspapers Online (ProQuest):
  • Atlanta Constitution (1868-1984)
  • Christian Science Monitor (1908-2006)
  • New York Times (1851-2014)
  • Wall Street Journal (1889-2002)
  • Washington Post (1877-2002)
• Georgia Historic Newspapers at Digital Library of Georgia (multiple papers, dates 19th-20th century)
• The Red and Black: an Archive (1893-2010)
• Flagpole Magazine Archive (1987-2012)
• America's Historical Newspapers (digital reproductions of historical newspapers including 22 publications from Georgia covering the years 1763-1925)
• Accessible Archives (African American newspapers, Civil War newspapers, and assorted other historical newspapers)
• Service Newspapers of World War Two (over 200 service newspapers published during World War Two from nations around the globe)
• American Indian Newspapers (45 newspapers from the U.S. and Canada spanning 1828-2016)
• The Times Digital Archive (London, 1785-2012)
• Burney Newspapers Collection (digital collection of British newspapers from the 17th-18th centuries from the British Library)
• Nichols Newspapers Collection (digital collection of British newspapers from the 17-18th centuries from the Bodleian Library at Oxford)
• Latin American Newspapers (NewsBank) (56 historical newspapers from Latin America, 1805-1922)
• African Newspapers (NewsBank) (67 historical newspapers from Africa, 1800-1924)

We also have print volumes indexing historical newspapers, allowing you to look up a keyword or subject and determine on what specific dates articles were published relating to that subject. Armed with the date and page number, you can then find the call number for the microfilm of the newspaper (by looking in the UGA Unified Newspaper Database or GIL catalog) and go to the microfilm to find the relevant article. 

Lists of these indexes are available under the tabs for Georgia, National, and International Newspapers in this guide.

Looking for information about a newspaper, its circulation, history, or parent company?  Try the following database:

• Ulrich's Periodicals Directory