Library Research Guides: News: Home

Access the New York Times

New York Times Group Pass
Wellesley now offers free access to the current web version of the New York Times for currently-enrolled students, faculty, and staff, but registration is required. You must be on campus to register; after registering you can access your NYT account from anywhere.

Higher Ed News

Chronicle of Higher Education This link opens in a new window
Weekly source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators, September 1989 to present.

Student Library Research Awards

2024 submissions are open!

These awards were created to reward students who take the time to develop a thoughtful, methodical, and scholarly approach to the research needed for their papers and projects, as well as to encourage students to develop good research techniques.

Find out more at the Student Library Research Awards site

Major U.S. Papers

New York Times, 1980-present This link opens in a new window
Nexis Uni provides current coverage, but only news and editorial content and only in html format.
Boston Globe, 1980-present This link opens in a new window
Searchable full-text of this newspaper
Los Angeles Times, 1996-present This link opens in a new window
The West Coast's major newspaper. More recent coverage is only news and editorial content.
Wall Street Journal 1984-present This link opens in a new window
Financial and economic news in text-only articles (no images), 1986 to present. For earlier issues or for images, see the microfilm (Microfilm Room, Level 1, Clapp Library).

Newspaper Collections

Global Newsstream This link opens in a new window
One of the largest collections of news from the US, Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Australia, many in full text, as well as news sites, blogs, and newswires from the 1980s to the present (dates vary by title).
US Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Search 700+ U.S. newspapers in an easy-to-use interface.

ProQuest International Newsstream
Search more than 660 of the world's top newspapers, including The Times (London), The Bangkok Post, El Norte, Financial Times, The Guardian, Jerusalem Post, South China Morning Post, The Daily Telegraph, Asian Wall Street Journal, and the BBC Monitoring series of publications.

Nexis Uni news sources This link opens in a new window
U.S. newspapers, 1980s to present (dates of coverage vary).
PressReader This link opens in a new window
The past three months of hundreds of newspapers worldwide, in full image versions.
Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window
African American, Latino, Native American, Jewish American & Asian American papers, 1959-present.
Alt-PressWatch This link opens in a new window
Alternative & independent press, 1970-present.
Westlaw Campus Research This link opens in a new window
US and foreign newspapers, 1980s to present (dates of coverage vary). Also includes legal encyclopedias & legal analysis, federal and state court cases and statutes, and law reviews, 1789 to present.

Foreign News in Translation

BBC Monitoring: International Reports
Foreign news broadcasts in translation, 1979-present.

Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) This link opens in a new window
Broadcasts, news agency transmissions, and government statements from around the globe translated into English, 1941-1996.
Current Digest of the Russian Press This link opens in a new window
Summaries in English of news from the USSR and post-Soviet press in Russia, 1949-present.

News: Home