Chronicling America Historic American Newspapers
chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
This site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

Directory of Open Access Journals
www.doaj.org
The aim of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact. This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.

Google Book Search
books.google.com
Google Book Search as begun indexing magazine archives. You can search for magazines through Google Book Search. Try queries like [obama keynote convention], [hollywood brat pack] or [world's most challenging crossword] and you'll find magazine articles alongside books results. Magazine articles are tagged with the keyword "Magazine" on the search snippet.

Google News
news.google.com/nwshp
Search and browse 25,000 news sources that are updated continuously.

Google News Archive
news.google.com/archivesearch
News archive search provides an easy way to search and explore historical archives. Can be set for free items only with "no price."

Google Scholar
scholar.google.com
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.

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