Kibbee Library: Communications and Journalism: Articles (Newspaper/Magazine/Scholarly)

Recent Newspaper and Magazine Articles

In Print:

Kingsborough subscribes to many periodicals both in print and online. If you would like to look at a print copy of a recent newspaper or magazine, you may find copies of the following in the periodicals section on the 3rd floor of the library (this is not a complete list -- see Journal Search for comprehensive subscription information):

*The New York Times*	*The Wall Street Journal*
*Barron's*	*The Chief*
*Women's Wear Daily*	*The Village Voice*

Online:

For very recent news stories, you may find a lot of information via Google News or other similar search engines which bring you hits from the open web. Many news sites store much of their content behind paywalls, however. As Kingsborough library users, you can get access to many of these articles. The Kingsborough Library subscribes to many, many more news and magazine publications through our databases. For recent articles from popular news sources, try searching the following databases:

US Major Dailies This link opens in a new window
Access to the five U.S. national and regional newspapers: The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and the Wall Street Journal. The content is available by 8 AM U.S. Eastern time each day and provides archives back to 1980.
New York Times Academic Pass This link opens in a new window
Free access to The New York Times digital edition is available to anyone with a valid cuny.edu email account. Includes smartphone and tablet apps. The subscription lasts for one year. Please use this link to renew a subscription.
Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new window
Full text of the Eastern edition from 1984 to present.
Newspapers – InfoTrac Newsstand This link opens in a new window
Full-text national, international, state, and local newspapers with coverage starting from 1980.
Ethnic Newswatch This link opens in a new window
Full text of newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic minority press, providing access to often overlooked perspectives. Coverage goes back to 1990.
LexisNexis This link opens in a new window
Full-text of newspapers, federal and state case law and legislative materials, law reviews, and company news and financial information. Updates and coverage vary by section.

Historical Newspaper and Magazine Articles (Primary Sources)

Historic newspapers and magazines are excellent primary source documents. The Kingsborough Library subscribes to a number of databases which can greatly assist you as you find primary sources for your research.

Multiple Publication Databases:

Historic American Newspapers (Chronicling America)
Search America's historic newspapers pages from 1836-1922 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is a freely available database sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.

17th and 18th Century Burney Collection (British Newspapers) This link opens in a new window
Full text of early English newspapers, newsbooks, Acts of Parliament, addresses, broadsides, pamphlets, and proclamations. Titles are from London, British Isles, and colonies.
19th Century U.S. Newspaper Digital Archive This link opens in a new window
Primary source newspapers with strong coverage for the Civil War and Reconstruction, African-American culture and history, the Western expansion, Native American culture and history, the Victorian era, and more.
Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 This link opens in a new window
Indexing for magazines including full coverage of the original print volumes of Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature.

Single Publication Databases:

New York Times 1851-2016 (Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new window
Digital files of The New York Times from 1851 to 2016
Economist This link opens in a new window
The Economist has published more than 8,000 issues since 1843, focusing on international political, business, scientific, technological and cultural developments. This database provides a full archive of The Economist up to four years ago. For more recent issues, try the Academic Onefile or General Onefile databases.

Ethnic Newspapers:

Academic and Scholarly Articles

For more in-depth discussion and analysis of a topic or of the subject of journalism itself, you may want to consult articles from scholarly journals. Several suggested databases are listed below; you can find more recommendations on our A-Z List of Databases page.

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Newspapers, magazines and scholarly journals covering all academic areas of study. Recommended starting point for research in periodical literature in most fields of study.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR provides access to more than 1,500 academic journals, books and primary sources dating back to the early 20th century. Offers an excellent alternative to the items found in EBSCO and Gale databases.
Gale Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
Full text academic journal articles and reference sources covering a variety of topics. Strong coverage for the sciences, medicine, engineering and business.
Communication and Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
Full text and abstracts from journals covering communications studies, some going back as far a 1915. Strong coverage for broadcasting, language and speech, linguistics, and mass media.

Google Scholar
A multidisciplinary database from Google. Offers little customization but extensive results.