ProQuest National Newspaper packages provide your library with online access to the most respected national and regional newspapers from across the U.S.  The titles in ProQuest National Newspapers offer researchers thorough coverage of local, national, and international events with journalistic balance and perspective; together ProQuest National Newspapers provides a comprehensive package to retrieve important articles, and research events over time and from different perspectives.

ProQuest National Newspapers offers the most read and respected papers in the U.S. including:

• The New York Times (1980-present) - the paper of record in the U.S., best known for its analysis of news, issues and social changes.
• The Wall Street Journal (1984-present) - the single most authoritative source of global and national business reporting (ProQuest has co-exclusive rights to this title).
• Washington Post (1987-present) - inside-the-beltway coverage of politics and highly respected investigative journalism.
• Los Angeles Times (1985-present) - the perspective of the American West, lauded for its coverage of immigration, entertainment, and environmental issues (ProQuest is the exclusive provider of the Los Angeles Times).
• Christian Science Monitor (1988-present) - balanced, objective reporting from the most respected field journalists in the industry.

ProQuest National Newspapers is available on the ProQuest interface, meeting the needs of all researchers with basic and advanced search options.  Quality indexing, utilizing ProQuest controlled vocabulary, allows your patrons to find exactly what they need from news, sports, and business to obituaries, reviews, and editorials.

ProQuest National Newspapers is available as three packages.

ProQuest National Newspapers Core:

• The New York Times
• The Wall Street Journal
• Washington Post
• Los Angeles Times
• The Christian Science Monitor

ProQuest National Newspapers Expanded
Includes all of the titles in National Newspapers Core and:

• The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
• The Boston Globe
• Chicago Tribune
• Seattle Post-Intelligencer
• USA Today

ProQuest National Newspaper Premier
Includes all of the titles in National Newspaper Core and Expanded and:

• The Denver Post
• Detroit News
• Houston Chronicle
• Las Vegas Review-Journal
• Minneapolis Star Tribune
• New York Daily News
• Philadelphia Inquirer
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
• The Sacramento Bee
• San Antonio Express-News
• The San Diego Union Tribune
• San Francisco Chronicle
• South Florida Sun-Sentinel
• St. Louis Post-Dispatch
• St. Petersburg Times

Accessing ProQuest National Newspapers

This database is available on the Web through ProQuest®, a premier information access and retrieval system.  With basic and advanced searching, it is suitable for everyone, from novice researchers to experienced information professionals.  Natural language searching, SmartSearch and the Topic Guide are just a few of the features that help users find the exact information they need, quickly and easily.

The ProQuest interface offers additional features for a user-friendly and precise searching experience:

• Narrow searches by date, multiple fields and document types
• Spell check
• Abstracts for every newspaper article
• The interface is available in 17 different languages
• Translate articles on demand
• Open URL Compliant

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