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GSU News Databases

Why pay for journalistic news content when it's included in your tuition? GSU Library has many news databases.

Remember, libraries collect news into databases for archival purposes. The existence of news within our databases does not guarantee its: currency, relevance, or reliability. Scroll down for a reminder of how to determine these factors.

19th Century U.S. Newspapers
This database provides access to over one million pages of primary source newspaper content from the 19th century.
Atlanta Historic Newspapers Archive This link opens in a new window
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Coverage spans from 1847-1922 for the following titles: Atlanta Daily Examiner, Atlanta Daily Herald, Atlanta Georgian, Atlanta Intelligencer, Atlantian, Daily/Georgia Weekly Opinion, Gate-City Guardian, Georgia Literary and Temperance Crusader, New Era, Southern Confederacy, Southern Miscellany and Upper Georgia Whig, Southern World, Sunny South, and the Weekly Constitution.
Georgia Historic Newspapers This link opens in a new window
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Includes newspaper titles from around the state. The collection provides historical images that are both full-text searchable and can be browsed by date, title, region, city, and newspaper.
Global Newsstream This link opens in a new window
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Global coverage of newspapers and newswires from the U.S., Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Australia.
LGBTQ+ Source This link opens in a new window
This database contains LGBT journals, relevant bibliographic data from NISC's Sexual Diversity Studies, an LGBT thesaurus, author supplied abstracts and keywords, and searchable cited references.
Los Angeles Times (ProQuest Newspapers) This link opens in a new window
Coverage ranges from 1985 - current for this resource provides access to top news stories and the information contained on various sections of the papers
News & Newspapers This link opens in a new window
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Full text of U.S. and international news sources. Includes coverage of several major U.S. and international newspapers such as The Atlanta Journal Constitution, The New York Times, and the Times of London.
Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new window
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Provides selected full text coverage for 245 national and international newspapers, newswires, and other sources.
New York Times (ProQuest Newspapers) This link opens in a new window
Coverage ranges from 1980 - current. The New York Times is considered the official U.S. newspaper because it publishes the complete text of important documents, speeches and presidential press conferences.
TOPICsearch This link opens in a new window
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This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics, including controversial opinions and viewpoints.
US Newsstream This link opens in a new window
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US Newsstream enables users to search current U.S. news content featuring top newspapers, wires, broadcast transcripts, blogs, and news sites in full-text format.
Wall Street Journal (ProQuest Newspapers) This link opens in a new window
This indexing provides access to top news stories, and covers bibliographic information, companies, people, and products ranging from 1984 - current.
Washington Post (ProQuest Newspapers) This link opens in a new window
This indexing provides access to top news stories, and covers bibliographic information, companies, people, and products ranging from 1987 - current.

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Fact Checking Tookbox

BBB Scam Tracker
This resource is a database of reported and investigated scams, compiled and researched by the Better Business Bureau (BBB). BBB is a nonprofit organization that accredits businesses.
Business Source Complete
Business Source Complete is a scholarly business database that provides full-text access to many peer-reviewed business related journals, including disciplines such as marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics.
Charity Watch
This resource, parented by an independent nonprofit, began back in 1992, and it researches the efficiency, accountability, and governance of nonprofit organizations. It aims to expose wasteful and unethical charities, and it spotlights top ethical charities.
Community Foundation Locator
Find community foundations in your area by clicking on a map.
Fact Check Explorer
Use this fact-checking search engine, powered by Google, to search for a questionable "fact."
Hoaxy beta
This tool helps you to visualize data showing the spread of misinformation on Twitter.
Internet Archive (Wayback Machine)
The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit digital library of Internet sites and other digital artifacts. It provides free access.
InVID
This Chrome plugin helps you investigate questionable videos.
Mergent Online
Provides U.S. company data for over 15,000 public companies and their SEC filings, U.S. annual reports, plus international company data for approximately 17,000 companies, international annual reports, FactSheets, and country information.
Politifact
This nonprofit-owned investigative team rates political statements for accuracy based on their independent news expertise and then awards them a score on a “truthometer.”
Retraction Watch
This blog reports on retractions of scientific papers and related topics.
Snopes Fact Check
Snopes’ fact checking feature offers an archive of investigated rumors and questionable claims. The oldest and largest online fact-checking site, Snopes’ contextualized analysis uses evidence-based practices to fact-check the media.
TinEye
Want to determine if an image is an original, and from where it originated? Paste the image into this reverse image search.
U.S Business Database
Contains a total of 79 million businesses including 17 million verified and 62 million unverified businesses that are updated weekly. It includes parent companies, year established, contact information, sales volume, and more.

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