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Communication & Mass Media Complete
Full-text access to articles, books, and more in all areas of communication
Gale OneFile: Communications and Mass Media
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Articles cover all aspects of the communications field, including advertising, public relations, linguistics, and literature.
OpenAIRE
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Search and access over 24 million publications and data from research projects funded by governmental and non-governmental organizations all over the world (primarily European Union).
Academic Search Complete
With access to full-text articles in journals from many disciplines, this is an excellent resource for any subject.
Gale Academic OneFile
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Search millions of articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sourcesincluding thousands of podcasts and transcripts from NPR and CNN as well as videos from BBC Worldwide Learning.
CQ Researcher
Full-text, fact-checked reports on important global news issues written by professional journalists.
Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints
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Utilizes many different sources to provide information on multiple sides of controversial topics worldwide.

Finding Newspapers

Newspaper Source Plus
A full-text resource of U.S. state, regional, and national, as well as international, newspapers.
Gale OneFile: News
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Search more than 2,300 major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers, as well as leading titles from around the world. Also includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts.
New York Times
Online access to NYTimes.com content.
All users must create an individual account with an SFA email address through this link: https://sfasu.libguides.com/nytregister.
To activate your SFA-sponsored New York Times account:
1. Go to the NYT registration page
2. Login to OpenAthens with your MySFA username and password
3. Select your status from the list: Student, Faculty/Staff, or Other/Non-Academic. NOTE: Students should also select their 'Graduation Year' from the dropdown menu and enter an alternate email address
4. Click the 'Sign Up' button
5. Agree to the Privacy Policy, Subscriber Agreement, and Cookie Policy.
6. Click 'Create' to complete registration
Once you have an account you can go directly to: https://www.nytimes.com/.
NOTE: Student members accounts stay active until their graduation date. Faculty and staff need to validate their memberships once a year from the SFA site: https://sfasu.libguides.com/nytregister
Wall Street Journal
Access the last 4 years of the digital edition of the Wall Street Journal.
All users must create an individual account with an SFA email address through the SFA WSJ Registration page: https://wsj.com/SFASU
To activate your SFA-sponsored Wall Street Journal account:
1. Go to the WSJ registration page
2. Select an 'Account Type' from the dropdown: Student, Staff, or Professor
3. Enter your first and last name
4. Enter your SFA email address and create a password. The email address and password will allow access on other devices outside of the university network.
5. Agree to the Privacy Policy, Subscriber Agreement, and Cookie Policy
6. Click 'Create' to complete registration and create your WSJ subscription
7. Once you have an account you can go directly to: https://www.wsj.com/
NOTE: Student members accounts stay active until their graduation date. Faculty and staff need to validate their memberships once a year from the SFA site: https://wsj.com/SFASU

WSJ does not allow 2 simultaneous subscriptions for the same user. You can cancel your existing subscription and then go through the activation process via SFA. Call Customer Service to cancel at 1-800-JOURNAL (1-800-568-7625) and ask for the Education team.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
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Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1777-1963. Sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Austin American Statesman
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Provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. Covers 1871-1980.
Austin Statesman
- The Democratic Statesman (1871-1872)
- Daily Democratic Statesman (1873-1880)
- The Austin Daily Statesman (1880-1889)
- The Austin Statesman (1889-1891)
- Austin Daily Statesman (1891-1902)
- The Austin Statesman (1902-1915)
- The Austin Statesman and Tribune (1915-1916)
- The Austin Statesman (June 1916 - Sept 1916)
- Evening Statesman (Sept 1916 - Oct 1916)
- The Statesman (1916-1921)
- The Austin Statesman (1921-1973)
Austin American
- The Austin American (1914-1973)
Austin American Statesman
- The Austin American Statesman (1973-1980)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: El Paso Herald/El Paso Times
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Provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. Covers 1881 - Present.
El Paso Herald
- El Paso Daily Herald (1896-1901)
- El Paso Herald (1901-1922, 1925-1929)
- El Paso Herald El Paso Evening Post (1931)
- El Paso Herald - Post (1931-1997)
El Paso Times
- El Paso times (1881)
- Paso Daily Times (1883-1886)
- Paso Times (1886-1889)
- El Paso International Daily Times (1889-1902)
- El Paso Daily Times (1902-1908)
- El Paso Morning Times (1908-1921)
- El Paso Times (1921-2009)
- El Paso Times (2010-)

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