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• I need to know whether Dartmouth has a newspaper and for what years.
• I need to search Factiva for articles from a particular newspaper (e.g. The Wall Street Journal).
• I need English translations of foreign newspaper articles.
• I need a transcript from a network news broadcast on television.
• I need a newspaper that the Dartmouth Library does not have.
• I need to do historical research using newspapers.

I need to know whether Dartmouth has a newspaper and for what years.

The best way to search for a newspaper is by doing a TITLE search in the Dartmouth Catalog. A search in the catalog will search for electronic, microfilm and paper versions of a newspaper. Oftentimes, the library will have some years electronically and other years in microfilm, making a search in the catalog important in determining how much of a newspaper the library has.

I need to search Factiva for articles from a particular newspaper (e.g. The Wall Street Journal).

Go to Factiva. You may want to open a second web browser window, in order to read these instructions and use Factiva simultaneously.

Click on "Source". A search box will appear; type "wall street journal" in the box. Click on the Wall Street Journal:"Publication: The Wall Street Journal". Clicking twice will select and then undo your selection. "The Wall Street Journal" should now appear to the right of "Source". Click on "Save"; a new window will appear. Click "Done". Now enter your search terms in the "Free Text" box and change "All Dates" in the pull-down menu, if need be. Hit "Run Search", and you will retrieve a list of articles only from The Wall Street Journal. If you want to search another publication click on "Wall Street Journal" to unselect it and then redo the above.

I need English translations of foreign newspaper articles.

I need a transcript from a network news broadcast on television.

I need a newspaper that the Dartmouth Library does not have.

I need to do historical research using newspapers.

In doing historical research using newspapers, the first question is: What newspapers does the Dartmouth Library have for whatever city or region of the United States or for whatever country and for what years? The Jones Media Center (2nd level of Baker-Berry Library) has a binder that lists which American newspapers Dartmouth has on microfilm by time period: 1700-1788; 1789-1865; 1866-1899; 1900-1939; and 1940 to the present. The binder also lists which foreign newspapers Dartmouth has on microfilm by country including the years the library has of each. Some of the foreign newspapers date back to the 18th century; for example The London Times dates back to 1785.

The Jones Media Center also has print indexes to many major American and the The London Times (1785 to the present) and Le Monde (1944 to the present); the print index to The New York Times is in Baker-Berry Reference on the Level 1 (AI21.N452).

The Dartmouth Library does get the fulltext electronic historical backfile of some American newspapers. The historical backfiles are listed on the bottom half of the "Home" page of this website.

If you have a specific newspaper in mind and want to know whether Dartmouth has it and how much of it, the best place to start a search is by doing a TITLE search in the Dartmouth Catalog. The Dartmouth Catalog will tell you whether the library has the newspaper and how much of it Dartmouth has in print, electronically and/or microfilm. For assistance in finding a newspaper in the catalog or in understanding the catalog record, see a reference librarian.

If Dartmouth does not have the newspaper you need, consult: I need a newspaper that the Dartmouth Library does not have. The Dartmouth Library may still be able to get you the newspaper you need. However, it may take 2-3 weeks via DartDoc.