Newspapers at the BPL: Looking Beyond the BPL

If after searching our catalog, and the Commonwealth Catalog, you still haven’t found the item you need, you may wish to consider an Inter-Library Loan request.

FamilySearch's list of online newspaper webpages

Worldwide compilation of freely digitized newspapers searchable as one database

Links to newspapers digitized by Google.

[International Coalition on Newspapers (ICON) , Center for Research Libraries]
This page highlights and links to past, present, and prospective digitization projects of historic newspapers. The focus is primarily on digital conversion efforts, not full-text collections of current news sources.

Includes 564 front pages of newspapers from around the world, with special event archives.

Current periodicals: Approximately 70,000 titles are retained for 18 to 24 months. (Older materials are bound or on microfilm and stored in the Adams and Jefferson Buildings.)
Newspapers: Approximately 350 domestic and 1070 foreign titles are retained on a permanent basis. The collection includes loose papers, microfilm, microprint, and bound volumes. Most newspapers in non-Roman alphabets are not available in this reading room, but are in area studies reading rooms.
Government documents: The collection includes current serial publications of U.S. federal, state and local governments, foreign governments, and international organizations. It also includes the U.S. Federal Depository Collection (1993+), and the U.N. document collection (1945/46+).
These collections are all housed in closed stacks.

This site lists online newspapers from around the world.

This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology. Some newspapers do not allow access to the OCR-converted text until it is proofread. Older newspapers are still in image format, and newer newspapers are available as full text that can be cut and pasted. Most text is in ASCII, some are using Unicode for diacritical marks not available in ASCII. Google now indexes many newspaper archives.

The State Library has a large selection of historic newspapers covering the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. This collection primarily focuses on statewide newspapers. Please ask one of our librarians for assistance if you would like access to this collection.

This list includes microtext holdings as well as databases that can only be accessed by the UMass Amherst community. Massachusetts newspapers and other US titles