Introduction
This guide describes sources of current, contemporary (recent past), and historical newspapers available in print or electronically via the Boston College Libraries and/or on the Internet.
The guide also includes sources of information useful for identifying, finding, and searching newspapers, such as: availability of newspapers at other institutions; newspaper directories; and newspaper indexes.
For further information on these resources or to schedule a research consultation, contact Kenneth Liss, reference librarian/bibliographer for Communication, via e-mail, IM, or phone (Contact info is in the box on the right side of this page.)
NEW! Digital Microfilm
View scanned images of the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and other papers online exactly as they appear in print via ProQuest Digital Microfilm.
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The Newspaper Is Dead: Read All About It!

If newspapers, as we so often hear, are dead or dying, why are there so many of them in the BC Libraries? And why should you care?
Check out this article in the Spring 2007 edition of ugrads@bc.library, the Libraries' undergraduate newsletter, to learn how newspapers can help you and how new kinds of access make them usable in ways that couldn’t have been conceived just a few years ago.
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