LibGuides: Newspapers: Current News Sources

The full list of current news databases offered by the library can be found here. Date ranges for current newspaper access vary, but are generally 1980-. The following are recommended newspaper databases in different categories:

Major newspaper databases

Access World News
Comprehensive news resource of more than 8,000 publications from nearly 200 countries, including major national and international newspapers. Subsections make it easy to quickly search California news, Business news, News sources in Spanish, etc. Tutorial.
Global Newsstream Collection
Users can search recent global news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s. Over 3500 newspaper titles from the US, Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. Tutorial.
Newspaper Power Search - ProQuest
Includes all ProQuest current & historical newspaper databases: ABI/INFORM, American Periodicals Series 1740-1940, Black Newspapers, Ethnic NewsWatch, GenderWatch, LA Times Historical (1881-1993), New York Times Historical (1851-2019) and Global Newsstream (1980-current). Tutorials for historical and current newspapers.

ABI/INFORM Collection
A comprehensive business database that includes newspapers, periodicals, scholarly journals, and trade publications, including the Economist, Sloan Management Review, & the Wall Street Journal. Tutorial.
Business Market Research Collection
Company information from Hoover's Company Profiles, OxResearch, & Snapshots. Includes industry analyses, summary financials, information about key executives and top competitors and more. Tutorial.

California Digital Newspaper Collection
Digitized California newspapers from 1846 to the present. Search help.
Los Angeles Times (1985 to Present)
Indexed newspaper issues covering years 1985 to the present.
NewspaperArchive: California Collection
NewspaperARCHIVE.com provides access to California newspapers from around 1774 to the present. California newspapers in the archive is fully searchable by keyword and date.
San Francisco Chronicle (1865-1984, 1985-current )
Access current and archived newspaper issues.

CQ Magazine
Contains in-depth reports on the status of bills, committee and floor activity, debates and all roll-call votes.

Ethnic NewsWatch
An interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) database of newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses. Tutorial.
LGBTQ+ Source
All of the content available in LGBT Life as well as full text for more than 140 of the most important and historically significant LGBTQ+ journals, magazines and regional newspapers, plus full text for 150 monographs/books. Video tutorial.