LibGuides: Types of Resources: Current newspapers

Current News Sources

Looking for current events? While the date ranges will vary, this page lists recommended newspaper databases that cover news from roughly 1980 to the present. Use our OneSearch portal below to search across most current newspapers (note that some current newspaper content can only be searched directly in its respective database):

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.

Business news

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
Contains 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 news

California Digital Newspaper Collection This link opens in a new window
Digitized California newspapers from 1846 to the present. Search help.
NewspaperARCHIVE This link opens in a new window
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.

Ethnic and political news

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.