News & Current Issues

Newspapers, news magazines and broadcast transcripts

• US Newsstream
  Contains hundreds of local, regional, and national newspapers. Includes the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, LA Times and Boston Globe.
• Infotrac NewsStand
  Full-text articles from more than 150 newspapers from around the globe plus an additional 300 sources of selected news and business coverage. Includes recent issues of the New York Times.
• New York Times (This link should only be used for creating an account)
  Current and historical New York Times content. In order to take full advantage of this resource, first use the link above to an create account with your Northern Vermont University email address. After you have created an account you can access NYT through their website or through the NYT app. The app can be downloaded from the NYT website, Google Play, or the iTunes store.
• Chronicle of Higher Education 
  The Chronicle of Higher Education is the No. 1 source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators.
• Regional Business News
  Full text for more than 80 regional US and Canadian business publications.
• Popular Magazines Collection
  Contains full content from the 1,000 most-read Infotrac magazines.
• Caledonian-Record (back files)
  Contains recent back issues of the Caledonian-Record. A complete collection up to 12/31/18 is available on microfilm at the Samuel Read Hall Library. 
• Basement Medicine – NVU-Johnson student newspaper
• The Critic – Lyndon Student Newspaper Archives
  (See also LSC Yearbooks Archives)

 

Current issues

• CQ Researcher
  Detailed reports on current issues in politics, economics and science. Each report contains background information, opposing viewpoints and references for further reading.
• Opposing Viewpoints in Context
  Extensive news content, organized around current issues. Each topic page contains an overview, periodical articles, images and essays that articulate opposing perspectives.

 

Historical news coverage

• Library of Congress: Chronicling America
  Digital images of local newspapers published between 1836 and 1922, including several hundred thousand pages of Vermont newspapers. Each image can be searched for keywords.
• The New York Times Historical Archive
  Complete content from the paper of record, back to 1851. (Be sure to open your FREE account here)
• Vermont Newspaper Project Catalog
  Contains nearly 1,000 bibliographic records for Vermont newspaper titles that date from the 1836-1922
• Burlington Free Press / Rutland Herald Index
   The index contains data from the years 1984 – April 2009.