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Drew Alfgren
email: alfgren@umbc.edu
phone: 410-455-3608


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Full-Text Online Newspapers

  • Off-campus access restricted to UMBC Students, Faculty and Staff LexisNexis Academic

    Coverage: Full Text
    Includes NEWS: major U.S. and world newspapers, broadcast transcripts, foreign language publications, premium blogs and Twitter® feeds, and foreign language publications; LEGAL: law reviews and journals, Federal and State cases and statutes, and Shepard’s Citation Service; and BUSINESS: company profiles and dossiers, and SEC documents.

  • Off-campus access restricted to UMBC Students, Faculty and Staff National Newspapers (Proquest)

    Coverage: Full Text
    Indexes, abstracts and provides full text for the following:
    Baltimore Sun: 1990 - present
    Christian Science Monitor: 1988 - present
    New York Times + Book Review & Magazine: 1999 - present
    Wall Street Journal: 1984 - present
    Washington Post: 1987 - present
    Does not include pictures or graphics

  • Off-campus access restricted to UMBC Students, Faculty and Staff New York Times Historical (Proquest)

    Coverage: Full Text
    New York Times full page and article images (.pdfs) from 1851-2001. Includes indexing and abstracting with fully searchable text back to the first issue.

  • Free online resource Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (1880-1922)

    Coverage: 1880-1922
    Chronicling America allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).


Newspapers and Microfilm Collections

  • Archives of Maryland Vols. 1-72 [micro in REF]
  • Baltimore Afro-American [various editions 1893-2002 microfilm in SERIALS]
  • Baltimore City Directories: 1752,1799-1930 [Micro in REF]
  • Baltimore Sun 1837- [print copy to 1960s in SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, micro in SERIALS]
  • Challenger (Space Shuttle) data base [Micro in REF TL867.C45]
  • CIA Research Papers (Africa) 1946-1976 [micro in REF]
  • Early English Newspapers (17th & 18th century) [microfilm #476 in SERIALS]
  • New York Times 1851- [micro in SERIALS]
  • Times of London 1785- [micro in SERIALS]
  • Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving in Baltimore 1820-1891 [micro in REF]
  • Schomberg Collection (African American History) [micro in SERIALS]
  • Slavery Collection (primary source documents) [micro in REF]
  • Southern Historical Papers [CD-ROM E483.7.S76 1997 at REFERENCE DESK]
  • Washington Post 1961- [micro in SERIALS]
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