COMM 296: Deliberation and Democracy

Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) is a large database of news, legal, and business information. It includes full-text news articles from major U.S. and some international newspapers (1970s - present), along with news transcripts, wires, and press releases. Visit our Nexis Uni guide for tips and tutorials. Nexis Uni includes articles from the New York Times and Baltimore Sun, but not the Washington Post or Wall Street Journal. Most content is text only.

Factiva provides full-text access to many major national and international newspapers, magazines, wire services, websites, and industry (trade) sources, with a focus on business-related news. It includes articles from the Wall Street Journal, as well as the Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, Baltimore Banner, and New York Times. This link takes you to the classic view of the database, better for complex searches. (Learn how to search Factiva.) If you want to read the news in a specific source, click Switch Factiva at the top for the newer interface.
PLEASE NOTE: Factiva requires login with University ID and access is restricted to current UMCP staff and students. Data mining and excessive downloading are prohibited. Factiva may suspend UMD's access if they detect these activities.

Ethnic NewsWatch is a collection of "ethnic media" publications – newspapers, magazines, and journals published by and for people from marginalized racial, ethnic, religious, immigrant, and diasporic communities. The collection includes more than 2.5 million articles from over 300 historical and current periodicals (1959 - present). The majority of content comes from African, African American, Arab American, Asian American and Pacific Islander, Caribbean, Eastern European, Hispanic and Latino, Jewish, Middle Eastern, and Native American publications based in the U.S. and Canada. Most articles are in English, but around 25% are in Spanish.

Search full-text historic content from 28 major U.S. newspapers, including several African American and Jewish periodicals. Each newspaper has its own separate database, and each database contains several publications (different editions of the same paper). Tips:

• Click Change Databases at the top to select which ProQuest newspaper databases to search.
• Once in a specific newspaper's database, click Publications at the top to see which editions are included.

Click to view the full list of available papers and date ranges covered.
[BNP] = Historical Black/African American newspapers
[JNP] = Historical Jewish newspapers

Full-text, full-color digitized scans of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced from the 1950s to the 2010s (with a few more recent publications) by feminists, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists and dissident GIs, Black Power advocates, Latino and Chicano Movement activists, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press, and alternative literary magazines.

Ethnic NewsWatch is a collection of "ethnic media" publications – newspapers, magazines, and journals published by and for people from marginalized racial, ethnic, religious, immigrant, and diasporic communities. The collection includes more than 2.5 million articles from over 300 historical and current periodicals (1959 - present). The majority of content comes from African, African American, Arab American, Asian American and Pacific Islander, Caribbean, Eastern European, Hispanic and Latino, Jewish, Middle Eastern, and Native American publications based in the U.S. and Canada. Most articles are in English, but around 25% are in Spanish.

We subscribe to over 60 historical newspaper archives. Many historical newspapers have been preserved and digitized in scattered batches, so you may find content in multiple places and formats.