New Database: Massachusetts Newsstand

When searching for newspaper articles on a topic, most of us look to LexisNexis Academic as our primary resource. And in most cases, this would still be your best research tool for wide-ranging access to daily newspaper content from around the world....Despite its new and harder-to-use interface!

However, if you are researching a local story or issue in Massachusetts, then a new database-- just added this summer--called Massachusetts Newsstand, might be an easier and more efficient research tool. A product of ProQuest, the same company that provides us with our Wall Street Journal database, Massachusetts Newsstand provides full-text coverage of most of the major newspapers of the Bay State. Here is what is available:

The Berkshire Eagle; Pittsfield, Mass. Full Text: 2005 - current

Boston Globe; Boston, Mass. Full Text: 1987 - current

Boston Globe (pre-1997 Fulltext); Boston, Mass. Full Text: 1980 - 1996

Boston Herald; Boston, Mass. Full Text: 1991 - current

BusinessWest; Chicopee Full Text: 1992 - current

Gazette; Haverhill, Mass. Full Text: 1992 - 1997, with some exceptions

New England Business; Dublin Full Text: 1975 - 1992

North Adams Transcript; North Adams, Mass. Full Text: 2005 - current

The Patriot Ledger; Quincy, Mass. Full Text: 1991 - current

Plymouth County Business Review; Pembroke Full Text: 1991 - current

Sentinel & Enterprise; Fitchburg, Mass. Full Text: 2005 - current

Standard Times; New Bedford, Mass. Full Text: 1992 - 1997

The Sun; Lowell, Mass. Full Text: 2004 - current

Telegram & Gazette; Worcester, Mass. Full Text: 1989 - current

To search across all content, simply put your search terms in the Basic Search box on the opening screen. Click the grey tab below the box for "More Search Options" whether its to pinpoint a specific field like Author or to look for specific Document Types like Editiorials. And look at the tabs near the top for other approaches. For example, click the "Publications" tab to easily select a single newspaper to search.

[FIND Massachusetts Newsstand on our "Databases by Subject" List in the "General Resources" category.]