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United Kingdom newspapers -- London, Edinburgh, Belfast Gazettes (1665+)

Virginia newspapers index -- Historical Newspaper Index (Fairfax County) (1785-2000)

Historical Newspaper Index (Fairfax County Public Library) -- "provides over one million records from nine local newspapers covering research on the history of local buildings, lists of Civil War veterans, past Board of Supervisors meetings and election statistics, and much more."

  • Alexandria Gazette (1785-1788), (July 25, 1854-December 31, 1855) and (May 3, 1860-January 20, 1865)
  • Arlington County Record (1932-1933)
  • Fairfax City Times (1961-1968)
  • Fairfax County Independent (1929-1932)
  • Fairfax Herald (1886-1973)
  • Fairfax News (1872-1875)
  • Fairfax News - Herndon Observer (1925-1943)
  • The Local News (1861-1862)
  • The Rambler, Washington Star (1912-1928)
  • Reston Times (1965-1973), (1975-January 6, 1977), (1978), (1980-1983), (1985) and (2000)

The UCF Library does not have microfilm for any of these newspapers.

United Kingdom newspaper index -- Guardian & Observer (1791+)

Guardian & Observer: Archives -- Index 1791-2003 (some articles are available online for purchase)

The UCF Library does not have microfilm for this newspaper.

The Guardian (July 14, 1984+)

The Observer (October 07, 1992+)

Indiana State Library Newspaper Indexes (1804-1991)

Indiana State Library Databases provides the following indexes to Indiana newspapers:

  • Indianapolis Newspapers Index, 1848-1888, 1979-1991
  • Logansport Newspapers Index, 1848-1855
  • New Albany Newspaper Index, 1849-1889
  • Vincennes Newspaper Index, 1804-1827

The UCF Library does not have microfilm for any newspapers from Indiana.

New York newspapers -- Northern New York Historical Newspapers (1811-2008)

Northern New York Historical Newspapers provides indexed access to 44 historical newspapers from Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego and St. Lawrence counties.

New York newspapers -- Old New York State Historical Newspapers (1817-2007)

Old New York State Historical Newspapers -- The Old Fulton NY Post Cards site provides digitized versions of many old newspapers from around New York State. A browsable list of the available newspapers is available here

New York newspapers -- Suffolk Historic Newspapers (1839-1960, 1996-2007)

Suffolk Historic Newspapers

  • 1839-1960 Long Islander (Huntington)
  • 1839-1871 Corrector (Sag Harbor)
  • 1869-1879 South Side Signal (Babylon)
  • 1872-1898 Long Island Traveler (Southold)
  • 1885-1898 Sag Harbor Express (Sag Harbor)
  • 1888-1942, 1996-2007 Suffolk County News (Sayville)
  • 1892-1931 Port Jefferson Echo (Port Jefferson)

Illinois newspaper -- Chicago Tribune (1849+)

Chicago Tribune: Archives -- Index 1852+ (some articles are available online for purchase)
-- also indexed in Google News Archives Search

Oregon Newspapers Index (1852-2004)

The Oregon Newspapers Index provides newspaper indexes for:

  • Oregon Daily Emerald (Eugene) (1900-1979) -- University of Oregon campus newspaper
  • Portland Oregonian (1852-1987)
  • Register-Guard (Eugene) (1963-2004)

The UCF Library does not have microfilm for any newspapers from Oregon.

Nebraska newspaper index -- Nebraska Newspaper Extraction Project (1854-2000)

Nebraska Newspaper Extraction Project provides selective indexing (some articles, but mostly births, marriages & obituaries) in many Nebraska newspapers from 1854 through 2000.

Georgia newspaper -- Atlanta Constitution (1868+)

Atlanta Constitution: Archives -- Index 1868-1942 (some articles are available online for purchase)

Pennsylvania newspapers -- Pittsburgh Jewish Newspaper Project (1895+)

Pittsburgh Jewish Newspaper Project (PJN) "is a unique, free, searchable fulltext archive that documents the history and life of the Jewish community in Pittsburgh and southwestern Pennsylvania. To date, it is a digital archive of The Jewish Criterion (1895-1962) and The Jewish Chronicle (1962-present)."

Alaska Newspapers Index (1901-1999)

Alaska Newspapers Index -- "Searchable database of Juneau and Fairbanks newspapers. Fairbanks area indexing (compiled by Mr. Mike Brown of the Bureau of Land Management), coverage varies within 1901-1975 and Juneau Empire indexing (compiled by Capital City Libraries staff) covers December, 1992 to August, 1999."

The UCF Library does not have microfilm for any newspapers from Alaska.

Georgia newspaper -- Rome News (1910-1916, 1951-2008)

Rome News (1910-1911, 1913, 1916, 1951-2008) is freely available through Google News Archives.

Arizona newspapers -- Casa Grande (1912-2007)

The Newspaper Archives of Casa Grande Public Library provides searchable, full-text historical newspaper pages from Casa Grande:

  • Arizona City Independent (2000)
  • Bulletin (1913-1927)
  • Casa Grande Dispatch (1912-2007)
  • Cotton and Agriculture (2001-2002)

United Kingdom -- Times (London) (1790+)

Times Index -- indexes the Times, Sunday Times & Magazine, Times Literary Supplement, Times Educational Supplement, Times Educational Supplement Scotland, and Times Higher Educational Supplement.

  • General Collection (1st floor) AI 21 .T46 (1929+)

Official Index to the Times, 1906-1980 "is a collection of short index entries from the 296 printed volumes of the Official Index to the London Times which covers the years 1906-1980 inclusive. Coverage includes all issues of The Times, The Sunday Times, and supplements. These index entries do not contain or link to the full text of the newspaper articles. They can be used to help find articles in printed or microfilm versions of the London Times." See also Palmer's Index to the Times, 1790-1905 -- not available at UCF, but some digitized volumes are available in the Internet Archive.

Collections of News, Headlines & Significant Events (1931+)

Soviet Union newspaper -- Moscow News Weekly (1961-2007)

Alaska newspaper -- Tundra Times (1962-1997)

Tundra Times -- "The Tundra Times was the voice of Alaska Natives from 1962 to 1997. It reported on events that transformed the Alaska Native way of life, including settlement of land claims, founding of Native corporations and the transfer of health and social services to Native-operated nonprofits."

District of Columbia newspaper -- Washington Post (1972+)

Washington Post: Archives -- Index 1877-1986 (some articles are available online for purchase)

Canada newspaper -- Globe & Mail (Toronto) (1974+)

District of Columbia newspaper -- Air Force Times (1974-1999)

CBS News Index (1975-1986)

Provides the transcripts of CBS news television broadcasts from 1975-1986, including:

  • CBS daily news broadcasts
  • CBS News Special Report
  • Special Report for Young People
  • CBS Reports
  • Face the Nation
  • Going Places
  • Inside CBS News
  • Magazine
  • Razzmatazz
  • 60 Minutes
  • 30 Minutes
  • On the Road with Charles Kuralt
  • Universe
  • Your Turn
  • CBS News Daily Broadcast
  • CBS News Special
  • Who's Who
  • West 57th
  • Our Times with Bill Moyers

California newspaper -- Los Angeles Times (1985+)

Los Angeles Times: Archives -- Index 1881+ (some articles are available online for purchase)
-- also indexed in Google News Archives Search

The UCF Library does not have microfilm for this newspaper.

Soviet Union newspaper -- Pravda (1986-1987)

Montana newspaper indexes -- Bozeman and Great Falls Newspaper Index (1987-2007)

Bozeman and Great Falls Newspaper Index provides citations to Montana-related articles from the Bozeman Daily Chronicle (1987-2007) and the Great Falls Tribune (1987-2006).

The UCF Library does not have microfilm for any newspapers from Montana.