News and Current Events Subject Guide
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We have many news sources in the Libraries. We subscribe to a number of printed newspapers. In Waldo Library these are shelved on the Lower Level at the end of the Current Periodicals area. One section holds U.S. and Michigan newspapers, the other a selection of newspapers from other countries.
Many more news resources are available online. This guide will help you select among these resources. Keep in mind that a question involving a newspaper or some other news source may also be answered in a popular magazine, a scholarly journal, a book, or a reference resource that fits into another category other than news.
If you need help wth a News Question, contact us at Ask a Librarian.
Here are some useful questions to help you select one or more appropriate news sources.
Looking for Today's News? Go to the newspaper Directories or Network News.
If you want immediate access to today's news you can go to one of the television news networks, public radio, your favorite daily print newspaper or its online version. OnlineNewspapers leads you to the free online Web versions of many US and international news sources. Coverage is not as complete as the news sources in the next category nor can you search as precisely.
Looking for In-Depth Coverage of Recent News? Use the Article Indexes.
Here are links to indexes which searchi full-text newspapers for WMU users that University Libraries pay a fee to access. You can search for more precise subjects and find many more articles than in the free newspaper directories.
Are you looking for newspaper photographs?
AccuNet/AP MultiMedia Archive has hundreds of thousands of current and historical photos from the Associated Press, some going all the way back to the 1840s.
Do you have a Specialized News Question?
Local News - Kalamazoo or WMU news resources.
Other Michigan Newspapers - Various Michigan newspapers.
National Newspapers - Major papers read by people all over the United States.
International News - Indexes to sources of international news.
Looking for Less Recent News and Historical Information?
1. Daily Newspapers
It helps to know the date or date range of the event you are researching. We have a complete run of the New York Times on microfilm from 1851 to the present at Microfilm AN2 (Lower Level, Waldo Library) with an index in Reference at AI 21 .N44 and at New York Times On the Web. For another perspective we also have The Times (of London ) from 1788 to the present at Microfilm AN1 (Lower Level, Waldo Library) with an index in Reference at AI 21 .T46.
2. Weekly News Summaries
Although the next two resources are not daily newspapers they are very useful weekly summaries of news events. While they don't present the detail of daily newspapers you don't have to search them on microfilm - these resources are in handy binders in Reference:
Facts on File 1940-present.
D410 .F3 (Ref)
Covers the whole world, but with more emphasis on the US.
Keesing's Contemporary Archives (later Keesing's Record of World Events) 1931-present.
D 410. K4 (Ref)
Covers the whole world, but with more emphasis on Great Britain.
3. Magazine Articles
Some news events are better covered in magazines than newspapers. You might search indexes of such magazines such as InfoTrac OneFile or Reader's Guide.