Reference Resources & Quick Facts
Newspapers
- Local Newspapers
- Humboldt County News Online - Links to local news media.
- Northwestern California Newspapers website - History, maps and more about local journalism from its earliest days to the present for this region.
- Humboldt Room Newspaper Collection - Everything about historical local newspapers is linked here.
- California Newspaper Project Catalog - Includes a union catalog of California newspapers and where they are located. See also the California Digital Newspaper Collection to search online issues of the San Francisco Call and the Daily Alta California. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers includes national newspaper pages from 1880-1922 as well as directory information about U.S. newspapers from 1690 to the present.
- Databases: News/Current Events - Includes newspaper indexes and fulltext of newspapers post-1985 as well as other news sources and the New York Times Historical. See also the guide Opposing Viewpoints to help identify different viewpoints on a topic.
- Finding Newspaper Articles: Indexes and Microfilm - Essential guide to pre-1985 newspaper indexes and microfilm call numbers for early newspapers at HSU.
- ipl2: Internet Public Library 2 - Newspapers - A portal to major newspaper websites. See also Newseum with today's front pages for 865 newspapers worldwide.
- News Sources - A guide to current and historical news sources created by the Communications Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.
- Preserving Newspapers. The Library of Congress - Describes how preservation has been done and how to do it, from proper storage to microfilming to digitization.