HIST 006C: Changing Societies: History and the News
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Prof. Martorella's Factiva Power Search Guide Use Factiva's powerful commands and field tags to effectively search for relevant information.
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Prof. Martorella's guide to creating a custom library of sources This handout will describe how you can create your own library of specific sources, a library of sources published in a particular region or country, or a library of sources about a particular region or country.
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Factiva Newsstand (browsing current articles) This handout describes how to use Factiva Newsstand to browse current (last 2 weeks) articles from popular U.S. newspapers (including NYT, WSJ, Washington Post and others)
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Finding newspaper articles
The following is a list of databases that provide access to newspaper articles. Click here for a full list of newspaper databases.
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Factiva General news and business articles including the full-text of the Wall Street Journal, company profiles, economic reports, and exchange rates.
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New York Times (Gale) Full text of The New York Times (starting in 1985)
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New York Times current Provided by LexisNexis, full text coverage is from June 01, 1980 through current. (Abstracts from January 1, 1969 - May 31, 1980.) Also includes The New York Times on the Web online articles.
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New York Times Historical Coverage of the New York Times from 1851 through 4 years prior to the current year.
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News (Gale) A full-text newspaper resource providing access to more than 1,100 major U.S. regional, national and local newspapers as well as leading titles from around the world. It also includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts.
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Times (London) Digital Archive Digital archive of the London Times, from 1785 to 1985.
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Newspapers
| NEWSPAPER | COVERAGE | DATABASE - All databases can be found here: https://libguides.hofstra.edu/az/databases |
SEARCH INFORMATION |
| The Nation |
Nov. 1975-present |
Academic Search Ultimate | |
| Al Jazeera | 2007-present | Factiva** | Search with: rst=ajazen AND [your search terms] |
| Ha'aretz | 2016-present |
Spelled Haaretz in Factiva; |
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| The Guardian | 1990-present | Gale Research Complete | Do a Publication Search. |
| Le Monde [only in French] | 2022-present |
Do a Publication Search. Articles can be translated here: https://translate.google.com/ |
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| The Nation | 1990-2005 | Do a Publication Search. | |
| The New Yorker | 1977-present | Do a Publication Search. | |
| NPR | 1984-present | Nexis Uni | |
| The Guardian | 1984-present | ||
| The Sunday Times | 1985-present | ||
| The Times (London) | 1985-present | ||
| Politico | 2007-12/2024 with 2 mos. embargo | Proquest Political Science Database | |
| German language newspapers | Varies |
Some of these titles are in Nexis Uni. |
Articles can be translated here: https://translate.google.com/ |
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