LibGuides: Newspapers and News Sources : Home

About This Guide

Welcome to our guide to newspapers in the University of Idaho Library. Newspapers are an excellent source of both timely and historical information for your research.

This guide contains information on finding articles in the library's print newspapers and electronic databases, including links to selected newspaper websites and news sources.

Current Newspapers in Print

Current Newspapers Online

Finding Specific Newspapers

Follow these steps to locate print or electronic articles in specific newspapers through the UI Library website:

Begin by searching the Library Catalog:

Type the newspaper title in the catalog search bar.
In search results,limit Resource Type to Journals.
Then, limit Genre Type to Newspapers.

If the newspaper title doesn't appear in your search results, request the article using Interlibrary Loan.

Finding Newspaper Articles

Nexis Uni - formerly Lexis-Nexis Academic This link opens in a new window
Nexis Uni™ (formerly Lexis Nexis Academic) includes full-text access to local, national, and international newspapers; television and radio broadcasts; and newswires and blogs.
Click here to access Nexis Uni FAQs

Unlimited users

New York Times This link opens in a new window
In partnership with ASUI, the UI Library offers all UI students, faculty, and staff online access to the New York Times. For more information about setting up an account and access options please see our New York Times Information Guide.
Coverage: 1851-present (limitations on accessing 1923-1980)
Users: unlimited
Access Type: UI-affiliated
Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new window
Contains comprehensive full text for major newspapers as well as television and radio news transcripts.
The database contains comprehensive full text for major newspapers such as New York Times (from January 1985 to present), Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Chronicle, The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), The Times (UK), Toronto Star, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times (DC) and others. Also contains nearly 913,000 television and radio news transcripts, including ABC News (American Broadcasting Company), ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), CBS News, CNBC, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, MSNBC, National Public Radio, PBS and more. Access funded by the State of Idaho through LiLI - Libraries Linking Idaho.
America's Historical Newspapers - Pacific Northwest Historical Newspapers Archive This link opens in a new window
Access to historical newspapers from Washington, Oregon and Idaho from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Titles included in the archive: Blackfoot Register 1880-1886 Idaho Statesman 1864-1922 Idaho Falls Times 1891-1920 Idaho Register 1886-1916 Owyhee Avalance 1865-1900 Twin Falls News 1918-1922 Oregon State Journal 1864-1880 Democratic Standard (Portland) 1854-1859 Oregonian 1861-1922 Bellingham Herald 1903-1922 Morning Olympian 1891-1922 Olympia Record 1902-1922 Hokubei Jiji (Seattle) 1916-1918 Tacoma Daily News 1890-1898

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Newspapers and News Sources : Home

About This Guide

Finding Specific Newspapers

Finding Newspaper Articles

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