Current Events, Consumer Info, & Popular Culture (Electronic Reference Sources)

A current-awareness resource with links to thousands of headline news stories each day from hundreds of newspapers, broadcast, and online sources. While the homepage offers links to the day's front page stories, users can also browse current stories in the business, health, lifestyles, sports, technology, or weather sections. Headlines can be sorted by source or time.

A gateway to online news sources, primarily newspapers. Also includes many broadcast stations, internet services, magazines, and press agencies. Organized geographically and searchable.

A multidisciplinary database offering information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more.

Complete searchable full-text content of world news as well as local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Includes a variety of New Jersey newspapers, plus the Philadelphia Inquirer.

International news with separate pages for geographic regions such as Africa, the US and Canada, Latin America, and the United Kingdom.

Search for articles on any subject in the full text of leading business newspapers; magazines; trade journals; newsletters; and television and radio transcripts. Includes the Star Ledger and several other New Jersey newspapers.

A Web-based news organization providing international news coverage via a team of in-country correspondents.

Search and browse thousands of news sources updated continuously. Supplemented by the Google News Archive Search which allows searching of both free and fee-based historical content.

Links to U.S. and international news sources organized by location, subject, or media type.

Links to thousands of U.S. and non-U.S. newspapers; magazines; radio and television stations; and networks. Sources are cross-indexed geographically and by category.

Billed as "the genuine news aggregator for the latest web buzz," the site aggregates headlines from sources as diverse as Wired, The New York Times, and The Onion.

Includes only a small number of newspapers, but notable among them are the Home News Tribune (East Brunswick), 2010 to the present, and the Courier-Post (Camden), 2011 to the present.

Weekly reports produced by the well-regarded Washington reporting service, Congressional Quarterly Inc., from 1991 to the present.

From the Center for Responsive Politics, the site tracks the money behind the candidates in all current Presidential, Congressional, and local elections. Provides information including the total amount raised, top contributors, a searchable database, and more.

Covers major public issues such as education, healthcare, land use, and welfare reform on a state level. Includes a daily news, plus links to state home pages, legislative information, and state data.

A gateway to online news sources, primarily newspapers. Also includes many broadcast stations, internet services, magazines, and press agencies. Organized geographically and searchable.

Complete searchable full-text content of world news as well as local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Includes a variety of New Jersey newspapers, plus the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Current news on Africa, obtained from more than 130 newspapers, news agencies, and publications all over the African continent.

Links to the latest news and information provided by online Southeast Asian newspapers.

Includes the full image of articles published in the Chicago Defender, the most influential African-American newspaper of the 20th century, from 1909 to 1975.

Online version of the Rutgers University student newspaper, serving the New Brunswick and Piscataway area campuses.

A full-text collection of newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press in the English and Spanish languages. Includes complete articles dating back to 1959.

Search for articles on any subject in the full text of leading business newspapers; magazines; trade journals; newsletters; and television and radio transcripts. Includes the Star Ledger and several other New Jersey newspapers.

Search and browse thousands of news sources updated continuously. Supplemented by the Google News Archive Search which allows searching of both free and fee-based historical content.

Images of the front pages of newspapers from countries worldwide. Pages are posted daily by 9:30 a.m.

Search thousands of United States newspapers singly or in groups. Searching is free, but there is a charge to retrieve full text. Photos, graphics, and charts are not included.

This guide will lead to many newspaper sites with online searchable archives, as well as to physical collections of newspapers.

Rutgers affiliates can create free NYTimes.com personal accounts, which provide full access to NYTimes.com and The New York Times app.

Provides the full image of articles published in the New York Times from its first issue in 1851 until two years prior to the current year. Searchable by keyword, subject, author, and article title. Includes illustrations and advertisements.

Includes links to online newspapers from around the world, arranged by country (or state/province). For each country or state/province, newspaper titles are listed with links to the respective homepages.

Includes only a small number of newspapers, but notable among them are the Home News Tribune (East Brunswick), 2010 to the present, and the Courier-Post (Camden), 2011 to the present.

Full-text coverage of NJBiz, Crain's New York Business, and 70 business news magazines, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

Searchable archives of assorted small town newspapers from across the United States.

The online version of the popular national newspaper. Includes a free searchable archive dating back to 1987.

Provides PDF images of essentially all the content published in The Wall Street Journal from its first issue in 1889 through 12 years prior to the current year. It is searchable by keyword, author, article title, and first paragraph (abstract). It includes editorials, illustrations and advertisements, anything that appeared in the original edition.

The daily online edition of the newspaper. Site includes a freely searchable archive dating back to 1877, but a fee is charged for retrieving articles.

Provides the full image of articles published in the newspaper from 1877 until 16 years prior to the current year. Searchable by keyword, subject, author, and article title. Includes illustrations and advertisements.

Includes the full text of newspapers including The New York Times, Boston Globe, Atlanta Journal and Constitution; magazines such as Newsweek, Consumer Reports, and Publisher's Weekly; newswires; newsletters; and broadcast transcripts.

One of the nation's leading news resources, updated 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Site is divided into separate sections for World and U.S. News; Politics; Business; Sports; Technology; and more.

Search for articles on any subject in the full text of leading business newspapers; magazines; trade journals; newsletters; and television and radio transcripts. Includes the Star Ledger and several other New Jersey newspapers.

Enables users to search the content of television programs from leading TV content providers including PBS, the NBA, Fox News, and C-SPAN, among others.

Full news coverage of the day's events; updates on breaking stories; and in-depth reports, many in full multimedia, with audio and video clips from MSNBC reporters.

Links to Web sites for radio and television networks and stations in the U.S.

National Public Radio's latest news headlines; program listings and descriptions; live Webcasts; etc. Includes a "find stations" directory of local stations.

Includes program listings, television schedules, a station listings, news, and more for the Public Broadcasting Service.

"Includes listings of local radio stations on the web, radio station that offer streaming webcast services, and in depth listings of local radio broadcast stations including digital radio throughout North America. Also featured are national and regional broadcast networks, shortwave radio, satellite radio, hospital radio, cable radio, closed circuit/campus radio and radio service providers, as well as a growing list of links to sites that deal with the radio broadcasting industry."

Includes programs collected since 2009 from national U.S. networks and stations in San Francisco and Washington D.C. The archive is updated with new broadcasts 24 hours after they are aired. Older materials are also being added. -- Use the index of searchable text and short, streamed clips to find programs. DVD-ROM copies may be borrowed for a fee. Part of the Internet Archive.

Searchable abstracts for evening news broadcasts of the three major television networks, ABC, CBS, and NBC, from 1968 to present, plus additional materials. Videotapes of the broadcasts may be ordered from the Archive for a fee.

Includes the full text of newspapers including The New York Times, Boston Globe, Atlanta Journal and Constitution; magazines such as Newsweek, Consumer Reports, and Publisher's Weekly; newswires; newsletters; and broadcast transcripts.

This popular and controversial news site includes reports on national politics, natural disasters, entertainment news, political scandals, and more.

The latest science headlines, including engineering news; news from the social and behavioral sciences; and news from the international scientific community.

Full-text coverage of NJBiz, Crain's New York Business, and 70 business news magazines, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

Lists recent Rutgers news headlines with links to full-text articles. The page also includes links to additional news and media sources at Rutgers.

"Covers discoveries in all fields of the physical, biological, earth and applied sciences."

Also known as the Urban Legends Reference Pages, this popular site is an extensive repository of information on urban legends.

Daily Web-only news from TIME magazine.