American Ethnic Studies - Finding News Articles

The Microform & Newspaper Collections houses the UW Libraries primary newspaper collection and has other indexes available.


News Indexes in Print

Boston Globe index
Index to articles printed in the Boston Globe from 1987-1999.
Location: Microforms Newspapers AI21 .B67

Chicago Tribune index
Index to articles printed in the Chicago Tribune from 1982-2001.
Location: Microforms Newspapers AI21.C57 N37

New York Times index
Index to articles printed in the New York Times from 1913 to 1946 and 1948 to the present.
Location: Multiple
AI21 .N44

Houston Post index
Index to articles printed in the Houston Post from Jan. 1987-1994.
Location: Microforms Newspapers AI21.H68 B44
LA Times index
Index to articles printed in the La Times from Jan. 1984-2001.
Location: Microforms Newspapers AI21.L65 N492
The Times index
1785-1786 | 1906-1913 | Jan.-June 1914-Jan.-Feb. 1957 | Mar.-Apr. 1957-Oct.-Dec. 1972 | 1974-2001
Index to articles printed in the The Times of London.
Location: Suzzallo Reference
USA Today
Index to articles printed in the USA Today from 1987-1999.
Location: Microforms Newspapers AI21.U8 B44
Washington Post
Index to articles printed in the Washington Post from 1989-2001.
Location: Microforms Newspapers AI21.W33 W3721
Wall Street Journal
Index to articles printed in the Wall Street Journal from 1958-1999.
Location: Multiple

Electronic News Indexes

UW Restricted Many of these resources are restricted for use by the University of Washington students, faculty, and staff.

UW Restricted African American Newspapers : The 19th Century
Full-text of 7 African American newspapers from the 19th century including Freedom's Journal and the National Era.


UW Restricted CQ Researcher
Provides in-depth coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy.


UW Restricted Ethnic NewsWatch
Contains a large collection (over 170 titles) of ethnic, minority and native publications currently published in the United States. Selected international publications have recently been added as well. Searched by keyword, title, byline, ethnic group and other fields for full text articles which can then be printed out or downloaded. The database goes back to 1991, contains over 300,00 articles and is updated monthly. The web site can be searched in either English or Spanish. Articles originally published in Spanish are not translated. All other material is in English.


UW Restricted Historical Index to the New York Times
Index to articles published in the New York Times between 1863-1922. Later years will be added in the future.


UW Restricted Historical newspapers online
Contains three historical newspaper citation indexes: Palmer's Index to the Times of London 1790-1905; Official Index to the Times of London 1906-1980; and the Historical Index to the New York Times 1863-1905 and 1913-Sept 1922. This library does not provide access to the Palmer's Full Text Online


UW Restricted Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Contains hundreds of national and international news sources, including some files in Spanish, French, German and Italian. Most files are searchable in their entirety, some going back to the early 1980's and most updated daily.


UW Restricted National Newspapers (Available until 6/30/08)
Indexing and partial full text of 27 U.S. newspapers, including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Coverage varies by newspaper.


UW Restricted Newsbank Infoweb
  • Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800): Based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans.
  • Readex Access UN (1944-2004): Provides access several thousand full-text current and retrospective United Nations documents and publications, as well as more than 265,000 citations.
  • Access World News: electronic access to local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers as well as full-text content of key international sources .
  • Global Newsbank (1996-Current): This fulltext database provides news stories originating from countries around the world. Newspaper articles, radio and television news broadcasts and wire service reports covering political, economic and social news are selected. All texts are in English.
  • Newsbank Newsfile (1991-Current): This comprehensive, full-text news resource consists of more than 500 regional, national and international newspapers and wire services.
  • Newsbank Retrospective (1970-1991): This full-text newspaper information resource covers issues and events from contemporary American history.
  • Foreign Broadcast Information Service Electronic Index (1975-1996): An index to the FBIS Daily Reports issued by the U.S. Government covering political, economic, scientific, and cultural issues and events throughout the world.

New California Media (NCM)
An association of over 400 print, broadcast and online ethnic media organizations – was founded in 1996 by the non profit Pacific News Service and members of ethnic media.


Pacific Northwest Regional Newspaper and Periodical Index
The Regional Index contains citations from hundreds of publications. These include newspapers, periodicals, theses, dissertations and monographs as well as scrapbooks, pamphlets and other ephemera dealing with all aspects of life in Seattle, Washington state and the Pacific Northwest from the 1850s to the present.


UW RestrictedWashington State Newsstand (Available until 6/30/08)
Indexing and partial full text of six Washington State newspapers, with various full text backfile depths:
  • Columbian; Vancouver, Wash. Full Text: 1995 - current
  • Daily News; Longview, Wash. Full Text: 1991 - 1997
  • Eastside Journal; Bellevue, Wash. Full Text: 1994 - 1997
  • The Herald; Everett, Wash. Full Text: 2001 - current
  • Journal of Business; Spokane Full Text: 1991 - current
  • Mercer Island Reporter; Mercer Island, Wash. Full Text: 1995 - 1996
  • The News Tribune; Tacoma, Wash. Full Text: 1993 - current
  • Peninsula Daily News; Port Angeles, Wash. Full Text: 1994 - 1997
  • Puget Sound Business Journal; Seattle Full Text: 1999 - current
  • Seattle Post - Intelligencer; Seattle, Wash. Full Text: 1990 - current
  • Seattle Times; Seattle, Wash. Full Text: 1984 - current
  • South County Journal; Kent, Wash. Full Text: 1997 - 1997
  • Spokesman Review; Spokane, Wash. Full Text: 1991 - current
  • The Sun; Bremerton, Wash. Full Text: 1991 - 1997
  • Tri City Herald; Pasco, Wash. Full Text: 1991 - 1997
  • Valley Daily News; Kent, Wash. Full Text: 1991 - 1997
  • Wenatchee World; Wenatchee, Wash. Full Text: 1991 - 1997
Selected business coverage may extend back further than indicated above.

Created by: Harry Murphy, maurice@u.washington.edu
Last modified: Monday May 12, 2008