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Newspapers
Selector: Susan Wishinsky (Interim)
GENERAL PURPOSE OF THE COLLECTION
The library's newspaper
collection is a good source of information for students and faculty
researching contemporary issues or engaged in historical research.
Newspapers from around the United States and from other countries
are acquired selectively. Access to newspaper databases is made available
selectively. Microform backfiles of selected major newspapers, along
with indexes to these collections, are collected. The Newspapers
Research Guide lists newspapers currently available.
Newspapers are valuable sources of current information for students and faculty in the fields of business and management, communication, economics, history, and political science. Newspaper indexes and newspaper backfiles on microform are useful for historical research in these same disciplines. Foreign-language newspapers serve a secondary purpose as teaching aids for faculty and students in modern foreign language programs.
SCOPE OF COVERAGE
1. Languages collected (primary and selective) or excluded: English language and foreign language newspapers are collected very selectively.
2. Geographical areas covered by the collections in terms of intellectual content, publication sources, or both, and specific areas excluded, as appropriate: Geographical coverage is international, and the library subscribes to newspapers published in all parts of the world.
3. Chronological periods covered by the collection in terms of intellectual content, movements or schools, and specific periods excluded, as appropriate: A variety of newspapers is collected in order to provide balanced geographical and political representation both within the United States and from around the world.
4. Chronological periods collected in terms of publication dates, and specific periods excluded, as appropriate: Current newspapers are retained for a few months, and selected major newspapers are preserved on microform.
GENERAL SUBJECT BOUNDARIES AND LIBRARY LOCATIONS
Current issues and microform sets of newspapers are housed in Mugar Memorial Library, except for the current issues and microform sets of business newspapers, which are housed in the Frederick S. Pardee Management Library. LexisNexis Academic and Ethnic NewsWatch, databases providing text from selected newspapers, are available online to the Boston University community. Since newspapers are not assigned Library of Congress classification numbers, they may be located in the Boston University Libraries' online catalog either by name or by searching for "newspaper" as a Library of Congress call number.
Newspapers from African nations are housed in the African Studies Library.
Newspaper indexes and bibliographic works on newspapers may be found in Mugar Memorial Library under these Library of Congress classifications:
| AI 21 | Indexes to Individual Newspapers |
| Z 6940-6967 | Periodicals, Newspapers, and Other Serials, Bibliography |
RELATED SUBJECTS AND INTERDISCIPLINARY RELATIONSHIPS
The Newspapers Selector is responsible for collecting newspapers and newspaper databases, with two exceptions:
African Studies: The African Studies Selector collects newspapers from African nations.
History: The History Selector collects newspapers of primarily historical interest, such as the microform collection of Early American Newspapers.
TYPES
OF MATERIALS
Collected: Reference materials, including indexes and abstracts, directories, and bibliographies.
Collected Selectively: Newspapers, microforms, and electronic resources.
Not Collected: Juvenile newspapers.
OTHER ON-CAMPUS
OR LOCAL RESOURCES
A newspaper morgue, consisting of newspaper clippings from Boston newspapers from the late 1800s to the early 1980s, is available through request at the Pickering Educational Resources Library.
The Newspaper Room of the Boston Public Library (BPL), a Boston Library Consortium member, subscribes to many U.S. and foreign newspapers. The Microtext Department of the BPL has microfilm backfiles of selected U.S. and foreign newspapers.
COMMENTS/NOTES
LexisNexis
Academic and Ethnic
NewsWatch
provide text from selected newspapers; the database New
York Times (Historical) provides text and images of this newspaper
covering 1851-2001. In addition, databases of current and archival
issues of particular newspapers are increasingly available on the
World Wide Web.
The library has been fortunate to receive gift subscriptions to newspapers from student groups and other donors. We are grateful for these donations, and we encourage student groups who would like to assist the library in this way to contact us.
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