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Access World News  (Newsbank)
 
Access World News from NewsBank provides full-text information and perspectives from over 600 U.S. and over 700 international news sources, each with its own distinctive focus offering diverse viewpoints on local, regional and world issues. Coverage: Varies by news source and newspaper.

America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1876  (Newsbank)
 
Early American Newspapers, Series 1, 1690-1876 offers 350,000 fully searchable issues from over 700 historical American newspapers. Focusing largely on the 18th and early 19th centuries, this online collection is based on Clarence S. Brigham´s " History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820" and other authoritative bibliographies. Includes coverage of the Newport Gazette, 1777; Newport Herald, 1787-1791; and Newport Mercury1758-1886; as well as newspapers from 23 states and the District of Columbia.

Chronicle of Higher Education
 
Username and password available at the Reference Desk (401-341-2289).
Published weekly, The Chronicle is the No. 1 news source for college and university faculty members and administrators." --The Chroncicle

Historical New York Times Access  (ProQuest)

Newspaper coverage dating back to the first issue in 1851, is available. Current years (latest 10 years are covered in Lexis-Nexis). Each issue of every newspaper is indexed so that finding articles on the editorials, editorial cartoons, obituaries, and letters to the editor from well-known people, arts, sports, business, and popular culturecan be easily found.

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
 
Academic Universe from Lexis-Nexis is a news, law, and business information service. Includes up to date news; company and industry news from newspapers, trade journals, and other periodicals; company financial information from Disclosure, Standard & Poor's, and Hoover's; archival SEC filings; and accounting, auditing, and tax literature. All sources are full-text. Updated daily.

Newport Daily News  (Newsbank)

The Newport Daily News, established in 1846, covers the people and events of Newport, RI.
Coverage: May 14, 2001 - present.

America's Historical Newspapers contains: Newport Gazette, 1777; Newport Herald, 1787-1791; and Newport Mercury, 1758-1866.

Newspaper Abstracts  (FirstSearch)
 
Newspaper abstracts from over 25 newspapers.

Newspapers - Selected Direct Links

Links to the homepages of selected e-Newspapers including local papers.

Newspapers of the World

Gives access to hundreds of newspapers and news magazines from all continents. Newspapers may be selected by country or by title.

Providence Journal  (ProQuest)
 
Daily newspaper from Providence, Rhode Island. Coverage: 1988-current

Wall Street Journal  (ProQuest)
 
Eastern edition ( 1984 - current )