If you’re a frequent user of the ProQuest Newspapers database, you’ll know it’s missing! We had access to that database through BadgerLink, a selection of databases the WI Dept. of Public Instruction provides to residents of the state. Well, they’ve negotiated for a different newspaper database, starting this July:
Newspaper Source Plus (EBSCOhost) includes over 1,500 full-text newspapers and newswires, providing more than 27 million full-text articles. In addition, the database features more than 583,100 television and radio news transcripts, videos & podcasts. Several Wisconsin newspapers are in the database, including full-text staff articles from
- Eau Claire’s Leader-Telegram (since mid-Feb. 2008),
- The Janesville Gazette (since mid-Mar. 2005),
- La Crosse Tribune (since Dec. 2005),
- Madison’s Wisconsin State Journal (since Sept. 1997),
- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (since Sept. 1997), and
- Superior’s Daily Telegram (since mid-Jan. 2005).
We also continue to have access to newspapers through the LexisNexis Academic and Campus Research databases.
But give the new resource a try! We hope you’ll like it.
