Online Reference - News (see also
Newspapers page)
News Databases:
Proquest Direct: Includes National Newspapers, Baltimore Sun, National
Newspapers Abstract, Ethnic News Watch.
Database remote access instructions
EBSCO Host -Regional Business News .
Database remote access instructions
General News Web Sites:
CNN Interactive Most frequently
updated news site. Includes feature stories, world and local news,
weather, sports, science technology, travel, showbiz, health,... Able to
search year of a past articles.
Baltimore Sunspot Articles from the
Baltimore Sun newspaper (full text articles for the last two weeks are
free)
New York Times Articles from the
New York Times (only current article free - charge for previous full
text article)
USA Today Concise articles on
broad categories in news, money, sports, life, weather, and USA snapshots
Washington Post Articles
from the Washington Post newspaper (full text from the last two weeks
are free)
Links to News Sites and articles:
Daypop- a current
events/weblog/news search engine.Search thousands of news sites and
weblogs from around the world. Updates every hour.
Google news
connects you to reports culled from numerous news services Google
continuously monitors. Search results group similar articles together.
Links to the News Resources
for researching current topics in the news since January, 1995.
Excellent site from the Poynter Institute for Media Studies. These
current news topic include a a good list of links to it.
News Library Search the
archives of newspapers in the Knight-Ridder chain and other papers.
Search and retrieval of citations with brief abstract is free.
Subscribing gets you full-text access.
Special topic news: Top
Public Agenda Online
Subtitled "the journalist's inside source for public opinion and policy
analysis," this site addresses 18 controversial issues: abortion, crime,
the economy, education, government, family... Information includes an
overview, facts and trends, different perspectives, links to news
stories, and results of public opinion polls.
Vanderbilt Television News
Archive Collection at Vanderbilt University is an extensive archive
of television news. Includes over 30,000 individual network evening news
broadcasts with special news programming including Nightlines since 1989.
Alternative News Source: Top
Alter Net Provides a mix of news,
opinion and investigative journalism on subjects ranging from the
environment, the drug war, technology and cultural trends to policy
debate, and health issues. (Independent Media Institute-supporting
independent and alternative journalism.)
Corporate Watch Counters
corporate-led globalization through education and activism.They try to
foster democratic control over corporations by building grassroots
globalization--a diverse movement for human rights, labor rights and
environmental justice.
MoJo Wire (Mother Jones)A
magazine and a media organization from the nonprofit Foundation for
National Progress.
The Nation Effort to discuss the
political and social questions in a critical spirit, with a different
perspective from the mainstream political writing.
