Find and Access Newspapers by Title

A quick walkthrough of how to find and access a specific historical newspaper through The University of Alabama Libraries website. Want to see if we provide electronic access to 19th century issues of the Wall Street Journal? This tutorial will show you the easiest way to do so.

Transcript:
Hi, my name is Alex, and in this tutorial I'm going to show you how to find and access individual newspapers on The University of Alabama Libraries' website.

In a previous tutorial, I showed you how to find historical newspaper databases. But what if you just want to see if The University of Alabama Libraries has access to a specific newspaper? Today we'll show you how to do that in a quick and easy way.

So let's get started - for the purposes of this video let's say that I want to find out if I can acccess The San Francisco Chronicle. Instead of looking through our historical newspaper databases one by one, I’ll start by looking at Scout or The Libraries Catalog.

Let’s try Scout first. I’ll put this in quotations…and change the drop-down from keyword to title – both of those should help us be as specific as possible.The first result, the electronic resource, is what we’re really looking for. And here you see all the online access we have for this paper. It’s available online from 1985 to the present in two different databases, and it’s available from 1869-1922 on Proquest Historical Newspapers. That does mean that we don’t have electronic access to this paper from 1923-1985.The other links are for microfilm versions of this paper, which would likely be your only option if we didn’t provide electronic access.