Database Spotlight: Ethnic NewsWatch

Looking to search ethnic and minority newspapers? Try Ethnic NewsWatch! Ethnic NewsWatch (access restricted to current Columbia affiliates), a full-text database of newspapers and journal articles from ethnic, minority, and native press.  Ethnic NewsWatch includes both English and Spanish languages titles from across the U.S., and the interface includes the ability to narrow your search […]

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American Newspapers at Columbia University Libraries

Looking for a state-by-state list of all American newspapers available at Columbia University Libraries?  This comprehensive list, arranged by state and city of publication, is a great place to start!  It includes currently received paper issues, newspapers in microform, and newspapers available through our online database subscriptions. All call numbers (F, FA, FN, etc.) refer […]

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All the News That’s Yellowing and Brittle – Historical Newspapers Online

Need newspaper articles that pre-date the stories in Factiva or Nexis (access restricted to current Columbia affiliates)? Curious what was happening in your neighborhood a century ago? Historical newspapers are proliferating on the web, so here’s a quick roundup of both plain text and scanned microfilm (actual page images) databases… ProQuest Historical Newspapers (access restricted […]

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