How can I find old newspapers online?
Read Old Newspapers and Magazines Online
- Google News – Google News indexes thousands of newspaper websites from around the world and organizes news in clusters for easy reading.
- Google Books – If you’re looking for an older issue of a magazine, Google Books might be the best place to find it.
How do I find an old newspaper article?
Use a newspaper index
- See the Library of Congress list of U.S. Newspaper Archives & Indexes.
- Search Williams WorldCat for [name of newspaper] index (e.g., Boston Globe index) Look for format journal/magazine or newspaper. Be sure to look at what years the index was published.
How do I find news articles by date?
Google News Archive Search The Google News Archive contains newspaper articles from hundreds of newspapers, limited by the date ranges listed beneath each newspaper. Just type the keyword or words you are looking for into the Google News search bar, and then click on Search Archive.
How do I access a newspaper?
Newspapers you can directly access through their websites
- Chronicle of Higher Education.
- Economist Online.
- New York Times Digital.
- Wall Street Journal Digital.
- Washington Post Digital: 1996 to present.
How far back do newspapers go?
First newspapers The term newspaper became common in the 17th century. However, in Germany, publications that we would today consider to be newspaper publications, were appearing as early as the 16th century.
How far back does Google archive go?
Did you know that Google News’ archives go back to the mid-1880s? Google News has an option to search over 100 years’ worth of archived news from newspapers around the world. The service provides both free and paid access to scanned archives of newspapers and links to other newspaper archives on the web.