Research Guides: Literary Journalism: Home

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Hello and welcome the the UCI Libraries LibGuide for Literary Journalism.

In this guide, you will find numerous research resources. The guide's tabs will direct you to resources organized by genre. If you have any questions, feel free to contact Robert Cho, your research librarian for Literary Journalism. If you need to connect to the library from off campus, be sure to download the VPN software. Finally, be sure to take advantage of UCI Libraries' Quick Reference Guide for answers to common reference questions.

Key Resource (News and Newspapers)

Access World News
Access World News from NewsBank provides full-text information and perspectives from over 600 U.S. and over 700 international sources, each with its own distinctive focus offering diverse viewpoints on local, regional and world issues. Date coverage varies with individual newspaper.
Newspaper Source Plus
1,200+ newspapers, 40 news magazines, 130 newswires, and television and radio transcripts.
ProQuest News and Newspapers (Los Angeles Times, New York Times, etc.)
Access a variety of current and historical newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Times Historical, the New York Times, and the New York Times Historical.
CRL: International Coalition on Newspapers
Links to past, present, and prospective digitization projects of historic newspapers, listed alphabetically by country.
California Digital Newspaper Collection
The California Digital Newspaper Collection contains over 1,500,000 pages of significant historical California newspapers published from 1846-present, including the first California newspaper, the Californian, and the first daily California newspaper, the Daily Alta California.
Newspapers.com
Newspapers.com is the online home of 200+ million pages of historical newspapers from 6,100+ newspapers from around the United States and beyond. Newspapers provide a unique view of the past and can help us understand and connect with the people, events and attitudes of an earlier time

Key Resources (Archives and Archival Collections)

UCI Libraries Special Collections and Archives
Special Collections and Archives houses the UC Irvine Libraries' collections of rare books, manuscripts, archives, photographs, and other rare and special materials. We welcome students, researchers, and the community members to visit and use our collections and services within our reading room.
OC & SEAA
The Orange County & Southeast Asian Archive (OC & SEAA) Center at UCI Libraries provides a collaborative space with services and resources to guide users seeking to document and study the history of the Orange County area and its changing demographics.
UCI Space
UCIspace @ the Libraries is an open access service for the UCI community to publish, manage, and preserve diverse kinds of research output. Collections include the Online Archives of UCI.
ArchiveGrid
Find primary source materials held in archives, libraries, museums and historical societies.
Online Archive of California
Provides access to descriptions and finding aids for materials such as manuscripts, photographs, and works of art held in libraries, museums, archives, and other institutions across California.

Key Resources (Databases)

Factiva
Factiva offers "news and business information from a unique collection of nearly 8,000 world-class, universally indexed content sources in 22 languages from 118 countries."
Justia Virtual Chase
Find online sources of public records as well as other Web-based people finding tools. Contains links to public records, reverse telephone directories, e-mail address finders, etc.
Academic Search Complete
Covers all topics, and contains both scholarly and popular resources, like magazines and newspapers.
Nexis Uni
Provides access to more than 5,800 full-text sources, including federal and state case law, law reviews, foreign and U.S. newspapers, magazine and trade journals, broadcast transcripts, company financial information, and more.
Reporter's Desktop
A collaborative, noncommercial web site containing tools for reporters.
Television News Archive
The collection holds more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since 1989.
Internet Archive Wayback Machine
The Internet Archive, non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, it provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, the print disabled, and the general public. Its mission is to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge.
CQ Researcher
CQ Researcher is often the first source that librarians recommend when researchers are seeking original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news. Founded in 1923 as Editorial Research Reports, CQ Researcher is noted for its in-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the economy.