Reference Resources & Quick Facts
Newspapers
- Local Newspapers
- Humboldt County News Online - Links to local news media and the 10-year searchable index of the North Coast Journal.
- Northwestern California Newspapers website - History, maps and more about local journalism from its earliest days to the present for this region.
- 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 1900-1910 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.
- Finding Newspaper Articles: Indexes and Microfilm - Essential guide to pre-1985 newspaper indexes and microfilm call numbers for early newspapers at HSU.
- Librarians' Index to the Internet - Newspapers - A portal to major newspaper websites.
- Preserving Newspapers. The Library of Congress - Describes how preservation has been done and how to do it, from proper storage to microfilming to digitization.
- Research Guides: Journalism - Includes Journalism Resources on the Web and Information Competencies for the Journalism Professional.