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Recommended Databases: News and Newspapers

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Rochester Democrat & Chronicle
Complete full-text content of local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded. Covers 1999-current.. MORE DETAILS...

Access NewspaperARCHIVE
Access NewspaperARCHIVE contains tens of millions of searchable newspaper pages, dating from 1759 to 1977. MORE DETAILS...


NOT available off-campus

CountryWatch
Up-to-date information and news on the countries of the world: political, economic, and business information. MORE DETAILS...

Factiva
A joint venture between Dow Jones and Reuters. Search the full-text of 8000 international business and general publications; Screen for U.S. and foreign companies matching your criteria; Get financial profiles for companies worldwide; Get historical stock prices as well as currency data and market indexes, etc. MORE DETAILS...



Hoover's Online
Covers 50,000 public and private enterprises worldwide. Business info includes news, business features, lists, stock quotes, and global industry overviews. MORE DETAILS...

Lexis Nexis Academic
Access to full-text legal, medical, business, biographical and news and information from over 5000 sources. MORE DETAILS...

New York State Newspapers via Infotrac
Provides selected full text for select NYS newspapers (sorry, no longer includes the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle). MORE DETAILS...
Newspaper Abstracts with fulltext via ProQuest Direct
Select full-text from newspapers such as the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and more. Includes articles, reviews, editorials, editorial cartoons, etc. MORE DETAILS...

1989+
Newpaper Source via Ebsco
Provides selected full text for 140+ US and international newspapers. MORE DETAILS...
News of the World via Dialog1
African and Middle Eastern news, Asian, Pacific Rim and Australian news, Canadian news, European news, Mexican, Central American and South American news, United States news. MORE DETAILS...

Wall Street Journal Online
RIT Libraries has access to the full-text of the WSJ via two databases: Factiva and Proquest. Both allow you to browse and search the WSJ but Factiva is superior for browsing and Proquest for searching.

Go to WSJ in Factiva
(best choice
for browsing)


Go to WSJ in Proquest
(best choice
for searching)

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