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Complete digital archives of The Times (1785-1985). May not be compatible with Mozilla Firefox.
ABI/INFORM is an extensive business research database with full-text articles from business journals, business and trade magazines and newspapers.
Accessible Archives offers access to primary source material from prior to 1900 that has been fully digitized and is full-text searchable. To view the collections UIC subscribes to, see more .
Digitized British historic newspapers with curatorial materials from Gale Artemis Primary Sources. This database may not be compatible with Mozilla Firefox.
Research Chicago history through the Chicago Sun-Times Historical Archive. Study trends, issues, events, advertisements, companies and more through historical full newspaper pages from 1929 through 2018.
The Economist has presented global news since 1843. The Historical Archive delivers a complete searchable copy of every issue from 1843 to 3 years ago as a primary source of research covering the 19th and 20th centuries. May not be compatible with Firefox.
From the first newspapers established by Peter the Great to the fall of the Romanovs, the Imperial Russian Newspapers collection chronicles 189 years of Russian history. From Peter the Great’s founding of the Russian empire, through the empire’s expansion during Catherine the Great, the abolishment of serfdom by Alexander II, the tumultuous years of Nicholas II, and everything in between.
The Imperial Russian Newspapers collection comprises out-of-copyright newspapers spanning the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, up to the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. With no less than 500,000 pages, the collection’s core titles are from Moscow and St. Petersburg, complemented by regional newspapers across the vast Russian Empire.
The HathiTrust Digital Library catalog provides access to the immense collections of the over 50 partner institutions who have contributed their works to be accessible in digital form. Logging in is optional, but it allows for full text downloading.
The HathiTrust Digital Library catalog provides access to the immense collections of the over 50 partner institutions who have contributed their works to be accessible in digital form. Logging in is optional, but it allows for full text downloading.
Complete digital archives of The Times (1785-1985). May not be compatible with Mozilla Firefox.
Less than 1% of the world's preserved historic documents, manuscript collections, and papers have been digitized, so serious researchers are encouraged to make arrangements to visit libraries and archives preserving the papers of historic figures and organizations in person.
ArchivGrid is a powerful tool to locate relevant archives and manuscript collections around the world, while Explore Chicago Collections searches local archives. For either search, type in the names of individuals, organizations, issues, or campaigns related to your historical research to find relevant archival collections and where they are located. Many collections will have finding aids posted online, where you can see how the papers are organized into separate boxes and folders for records of different activities (meetings, correspondence, promotional materials, press, etc.).
Contact curators at the institutions where these special collections are housed about how much material they may have relevant to your topic to see if planning a visit makes sense. Materials in a special collection are not always available for immediate use. If you decide to use materials in a special collection, arrange ahead of your visit for the materials to be ready when you arrive.
Microforms @ UIC Library
Prior to the advent of digital imaging, some historical materials and many historic runs of newspapers and other fragile publications were photographed and shrunk down into reels of microfilm which most libraries, like ours, have special readers for, allowing you to scroll through daily newspapers from other countries, languages, or centuries page-by-page. As you go, you can save images of specific pages or articles to the computer for use in your research. While it is time-consuming and does not allow you to search the entire corpus of the paper for specific words the way digitized materials do, for many local newspapers or other publications which no longer exist, it is often the only option.
Contact the history librarian, Jeff Wheeler (jwheel9@uic.edu) for assistance in using microfilm reels. Search them using the link below
ArchiveGrid is a database for searching through historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives around the world. Thousands of libraries, museums, and archives have contributed nearly a million collection descriptions to ArchiveGrid. Researchers searching ArchiveGrid can learn about the many items in each of these collections, contact archives to arrange a visit to examine materials, and order copies.