Newhouse School of Public Communications - Guide to Syracuse University Library Resources 

Your feedback matters:  Which one of these databases do you rely on most frequently (use the "comments" field if you'd like to indicate more than one or the name of a database not listed)?

Here's a link to the full A to Z list of all SU Library subscription databases.

• Primary newspaper and magazine sources:

National Newspapers{Proquest} - covers 27 major newspapers, including New York Times & Washington Post

Newspaper Source{Ebsco} - covers hundreds of regional U.S. newspapers, as well as some international newspapers

New York Times Historic Archive{Proquest} - all NYT articles, fully imaged, from 1851 to 2006

America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1876{Newsbank} - searchable, cover to cover reproductions of more than one million pages from more than 650 historical American newspapers. 

Chicago Defender{Proquest} - Offers full page/full text page and article images with searchable full text, 1905-1975.

Lexis Nexis Academic- coverage varies; lots of coverage for recent decades; not very "browsable," but works best if one is searching for a particular topic;  Also contains helpful search filters to limit results to source categories that include: 
---US/International Newspapers
---Radio and TV Broadcast Transcripts
---Blogs
---Web Publications
---Newswires and Press Releases

Library PressDisplay{Proquest} - Vivid full color image versions of selected U.S. and international newspapers.  Over 240 papers representing more than 50 countries.  Maintains a 60 day rolling archive.  For some titles/articles, the audio "interactive radio" feature will read that article content aloud, in the original language.

Readers Guide FullText {Wilson} - Large repository of articles from popular magazines and trade journals (1983 - present).

Readers Guide Retrospective {H.W. Wilson} - References to older popular magazine content (1890 - 1982).

• Racial, ethnic and women's perspectives (the following all contain a mix of scholarly and news sources):
  GenderWatch 
  Contemporary Women's Issues
  Ethnic Newswatch  

• Alternative Press
  Alternative Press Index (1991-present) and Alternative Press Index Archive (1969-1990) index almost 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines.  Coverage is international and interdisciplinary in scope. 

•           Business sources - including industry snapshots, company profiles and trade journal literature:
  Business & Industry
  Business and Company Resource Center
  Factiva
  Marketline
  MarketResearch.com Academic
  Mintel Reports
  Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage
  WARC {World Advertising Research Center}