While there are a number of freely available online newspapers, many continue to have "paywalls" requiring a paid subscription for full content access. Luckily, the ECC Library is already subscribing to a great number of newspapers (both nationally & regionally) that are accessible via the following databases. Note: Off-campus access will prompt a requirement to login using your ECC email & password.
Explore the Full-Text Periodical Finder to search for a specific publication title to see if it is accessible from any of our subscription databases.
Explore the Database A-Z Directory for a full listing of e-resource content available from the ECC Library.
US Major Dailies provides access to the five most regarded US national newspapers, including: The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and Chicago Tribune. The content is available by 8am each day and provides archives stretching as far back as 1985.
U.S. Newsstream enables users to search the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format. Access includes major dailies including the Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, and the Chicago Tribune. US Newsstream also offers one of the largest collections of local and regional newspapers.
A full-text database containing newspapers, magazines, journals, and newsletters of the ethnic, minority, and native press. Publications offer additional viewpoints from those offered by the mainstream press.
This database is a digital collection of the world’s major news outlets. It offers full-text access to more than 1,200 national and international newspapers including the Orange County Register, San Jose Mercury News, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Full-text television and radio transcripts from the Associated Press, National Public Radio, PR Wire, CNN, CBS News, MSNBC, Fox News, and others are also included.
Gale's 19th Century U.S. Newspapers -- a full-text searchable, facsimile-image database providing an as-it-happened window on events, culture, and daily life in nineteenth-century America. The collection features publications of all kinds, from the political party newspapers at the beginning of the nineteenth century to the mammoth dailies that shaped the nation at the century's end. Every aspect of society and every region of the nation is found in the archive -- rural and urban, large cities and small towns, coast to coast, etc. Includes major newspapers as well as those published by African Americans, Native Americans, women's rights groups, labor groups, the Confederacy, and other groups and interests. Also included are illustrated papers that bring the nineteenth century to life through the drawings of many artists.
Archives are cross-searchable from the Gale Primary Sources platform accessible from the Databases A-Z list.
Regional Business News provides full-text access to more than 100 regional U.S. and Canadian business publications dating back to 1990. Content is provided by leading publishers in business news. Key resources include newspapers, radio and television news transcripts, trade publications, magazines and newswires.