Article Databases
- America: History and LifeProvides access to citations and abstracts of journal literature, reviews, and dissertations on the history and culture of the U.S. and Canada from prehistoric times to the present. Covers over 2,000 journals.
- Historical AbstractsCovers events from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada). The database provides annotated bibliographic entries from 2,000 journals published worldwide.
- Criminal Justice Database (ProQuest)Indexing, abstracting, and selective full-text of research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends. Coverage includes U.S. and international scholarly journals; corrections and correctional and law enforcement trade publications; and reports, news, crime statistics, and crime blogs.
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowFull-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. Indexes and abstracts more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, and conference proceedings. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals.
- JSTORSearchable full-text journal backfile collection. Individual titles are listed in E-Journals A-Z.
Kentucky News Resources
- Kentucky Digital Newspaper ProgramFor more than sixty years the University of Kentucky Libraries have preserved Kentucky newspapers, making them freely available to researchers, geneaologists, and the general public. Today, the Kentucky Digital Newspaper Program (KDNP) brings those newspaper collections to a global audience through an online interface that's fully keyword searchable, repleat with color page images, calendar browsing, and web-based html newspaper content alongside traditional print media.
- Local History Index (Lexington, Kentucky newspapers)Very selective index to Lexington, KY newspaper articles pertaining to significant people, places, events, churches, businesses and organizations in Lexington and Fayette County, Kentucky.
News Databases
- Alt-Press WatchFull-text database of approximately 190 newspapers, magazines and journals from alternative and independent presses.
- America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1998Full-text access to colonial and early American history, with titles from 23 states and D.C. Also covers large collection of African American publications. With issues from over 700 titles (for many titles the holdings are scattered); includes Kentucky titles.
- Chicago Defender (1909-1975)A leading African-American newspaper, with more than two-thirds of its readership outside Chicago.
- Chronicling America: Historic American NewspapersAccess to scanned newspaper pages from 1880-1910 (currently from newspapers from California, District of Columbia, Florida, Kentucky, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, Texas, Utah, and Virginia) and information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.
- Early American NewspapersFull-text, mostly late 18th/early 19th century, covering colonial and early American history, with titles from 23 states and DC.
- Ethnic NewsWatchProvides full-text of newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, with more than 280 publications offering both national and regional coverage. Includes publications from Asian-American, Jewish, African-American, Native-American, Arab-American, Eastern-European, and multi-ethnic communities. Nearly 25% of the publications Spanish language.
- Google News ArchiveSearch newspapers back 200 years. Generate timelines of matching stories.Sources include Time.com, Factiva, HighBeam Research, Guardian Unlimited, AccessMyLibrary.com (Thomson Gale), and LexisNexis.
- Lexington Herald-Leader Digital ArchiveSearchable full text of all articles except records lists (e.g., births, police reports) and PAID obituaries. Also find records lists for the archives and the most current seven issues by using the search box at the bottom of the page at the Herald-Leader's archives page.
- Newspaper SourceProvides selected full-text for 40 national (U.S.) and international newspapers, including USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post, The Times (London), and The Toronto Star. contains selective full text for 489 regional (U.S.) newspapers. In addition, full-text television & radio news transcripts are also provided.
- New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993)The leading Black newspaper of the 20th century reached its peak in the 1940s. The Amsterdam News was a strong advocate for the desegregation of the U.S. military during World War II, and also covered the historically important Harlem Renaissance.
- New York TimesSearchable full-text of all articles except records lists (e.g., births, police reports) and PAID obituaries.
- New York Times Historical EditionSearchable full-text of the NYT from ProQuest, with keyword searching and date limiting. Coverage is from 1851-2015.
- Nexis UniIncludes access to over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical and reference publications (most full-text, the rest abstracted), primarily newspapers, magazines and journals. Includes the New York Times​.
- Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002)One of the most nationally circulated Black newspapers, the Pittsburgh Courier reached its peak in the 1930s. A conservative voice in the African-American community, the Pittsburgh Courier challenged the misrepresentation of African-Americans in the national media and advocated social reforms to advance the cause of civil rights.