Primary Popular Culture News Sources

Alternative Press Index
Also Known as: Altpress Index
Indexes over 250 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Includes selected abstracts from research journals. ...   [more]
Holdings: 1991 to present

Center for Research Libraries
Also Known as: CRL CAMP LAMP MEMP SAMP
The Penn Library participates in CRL's area studies programs. A consortium of North American universities, colleges, and independent research libraries. The consortium acquires and preserves tradition...   [more]
Supplemental URLs
    CRL Catalog
    CRL Quick Search Page / General Overview
    CRL Area Studies Programs - CAMP, LAMP, MEMP, SAMP
    CRL Catalog: Newspapers search
    South Asia Microform Project - SAMP

Important Popular Culture News Sources

Alt-Press Watch
Also Known as: AltPress Watch, Philadelphia City Paper, Philadelphia Weekly. Alt-Press Watch (APW)
Provides fulltext for U.S. alternative and independent newspapers, weeklies, magazines, and journals. Topics include the arts, media and popular culture, business and labor, literature and criticism, ...   [more]
Holdings: Coverage varies, from 1990.

Broadcast
Also Known as: Broadcast: The Weekly Newspaper of the Television and Radio Industry
Full text, online access requires password. To access the password for this resource, you will be required to authenticate yourself as an authorized Penn user. If you have further questions, please a...   [more]

Ethnic NewsWatch
Full text, comprehensive archival database providing access to more than 400,000 articles in nearly 200 ethnic, minority and native press newspapers, magazines, and journals. Full text archive of Phi...   [more]
Holdings: Covers 1960 to date. Updated monthly.

Nation Digital Archive
Also Known as: The Nation Digital Archive , Nation
Page images (PDF) and searchable text (OCR) for all issues of The Nation....   [more]
Holdings: 1865-
Embargo: 1 month embargo on full-text

New York Times (1851-2012), ProQuest Historical Newspapers
- from Proquest Historical Newspapers
Full-text of the New York Times. News, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, birth and marriage announcements, historical photos, stock photos, and advertisements are all searchable and avail...   [more]
Holdings: 1851-2011

Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) (NYT & much more)
Also Known as: lexis/nexis, Lexis-Nexis, Lexis Nexis, LN Academic, LexisNexis Academic, Lexis Nexis Academic
Access to full-text national and international newspapers , including the New York Times, and the Times of London business and accounting information, biographical data, and some selected legal mat...   [more]
Supplemental URLs
    LN Academic becomes Nexis Uni transition
    LexisNexis Academic (old interface)

Pacifica Radio Archives
Pacifica Radio Archives is considered by historians and scholars to be one of the oldest and most important audio collections in the world. Chronicling the political, cultural and artistic movement...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Philadelphia Inquirer (2010- ProQuest digital microfilm)
- from ProQuest Digital Microfilm
[more]
Holdings: 2010-

Rock's Backpages
Also Known as: rocks backpages
[more]

Time Magazine Archives, 1923-present
20thcenturymagazines...   [more]
Holdings: 1923-
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Times Digital Archive (1785-2009)
Also Known as: Times Digital Archive, London Times, Times of London
- from Gale Primary Sources - Newspapers
The archive allows key word searching of articles appearing in the Times of London from 1785-2009. Click on "Home" and then "News Vault" to search all historical newspapers hosted by Gale Cengage and ...   [more]
Holdings: 1785-2009

Related Popular Culture News Sources

Contemporary Women's Issues
This full-text database provides international coverage of current issues such as employment and the workplace, social & political issues, violence and exploitation, development and human rights, heal...   [more]
Holdings: 1992 to the present, (selected reports back to 1990).
Supplemental URLs
    old interface

Facts on File
Also Known as: World News Digest @ Facts.com , World News Digest
Full-text of the Facts on File World News Digest from 1980 forward. World News Archive from 1940-79 and Reuters News for the last two weeks. facts.com...   [more]
Holdings: January 1980-present. Weekly updates. Hourly newsfeeds.
Supplemental URLs
    Alternate URL

Gale Primary Sources - Newspapers
Also Known as: Gale NewsVault
Cross searches all Gale newspaper archives including 17th & 18th Century Burney Collection, 19th Century British Library Newspapers, 19th Century UK Periodicals, Economist Historical Archives, Times ...   [more]

Harpweek
Harper's Weekly from 1857-1912. Excellent interface for searching and retrieval....   [more]