All Guides: News Sources: Newspapers

About This Guide

This guide includes UMBC subscription access to current news sources and free (open access) news sites. To access historic news sources, see the Primary Source Collections guide.

Additional news content is available for UMBC community members through local public libraries.

Wall Street Journal
Search all UMBC-available Wall Street Journal content and filter by content type.
General content: Jan 2, 1984 - current; excludes images and graphics
Online extras: Jan 8, 2010 - current; excludes images and graphics
WSJ Magazine: Jun 2011 - current; some exceptions

Baltimore Sun
Sep 16, 1990 - current, some exceptions; excludes images and graphics

Local public libraries like the Baltimore County Public Library (BCPL) and Enoch Pratt Free Library (Pratt) provide temporary subscriptions to a number of major newspaper websites.

Newsbank
Newsbank is a full-text news resource consisting over 11,000+ local, regional, national and international sources (6,800+ US and almost 4,200 international sources). Updated daily, it offers researchers and students valuable primary source information on today’s issues and events from newspapers, newswires, transcripts, video clips, web only, and blogs.
News (Gale OneFile)
Gale OneFile: News is a full-text newspaper resource providing access to major U.S. regional, local, and national newspapers, as well as leading titles from around the world. It also includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts.
National Newspapers (Proquest)
Coverage: Full Text
Indexes, abstracts and provides full text for the following: Baltimore Sun: 1990 - present, Christian Science Monitor: 1980 - present, New York Times + Book Review & Magazine: 1980 - present, NYT in Espanol, 2020-, Wall Street Journal: 1984 - present, Washington Post: 1987 - present
Does not include pictures or graphics
Alternative Press Index [API]
Coverage: Some Full Text
API is a bibliographic database of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from over 300 international alternative, radical, and left periodicals. API coverage is both international and interdisciplinary. Coverage begins in 1991.
UMBC holds the Alternative Press backfile, with the print index for 1971-1990, in Special Collections. .