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Major New Jersey Newspapers on the Web

Group Websites for Smaller New Jersey Newspapers

Selected National Newspapers on the Web

Major Mega-Sites for Newspapers on the Web

Newspapers in the New Jersey State Library Collection

 

MAJOR NEW JERSEY NEWSPAPERS ON THE WEB

Asbury Park Press     http://app.com

COVERAGE:   Monmouth and Ocean Counties

FEATURES:   Local news, some state and national news; business, sports, life and leisure, education, community, opinion, obituaries, classifieds, "Islander" shore guide, casino guide, photo gallery, investigative reports and "web extras".

WEB ARCHIVE:  July 1997 - present.  The current week is free; there is a charge for articles older than the past 7 days; the archives go back to January 1999. Full-text access through General Reference Center Gold from April 24, 2000 to current. NEXIS: Dec. 20, 2002 to present (ASBPP)

Bridgeton News      http://www.nj.com/bridgeton

COVERAGE:   Cumberland County

FEATURES:   State and local news, business, editorials, sports, weather, entertainment, lifestyles, obituaries, classifieds.

WEB ARCHIVE:  Current day plus 14-day free archive.

Burlington County Times      http://www.phillyburbs.com/ Select "Burlington County Times".

COVERAGE:   Burlington County

FEATURES:   Local news, business, communities, sports, weather, obituaries, classifieds, neighborhoods, community guide, lotteries, movie and TV listings, AP wire, forum, area yellow pages.

WEB ARCHIVE:   November 2002 to present. Searching index is free. Payment for downloading full-text articles.

Courier-News     http://www.mycentraljersey.com/

COVERAGE:   Somerset , Hunterdon, Middlesex, and Union Counties .

FEATURES:   Local and state news, today's front page, editorials, letters to the editor,obituaries, weather, business, classifieds, leisure, entertainment, sports, photos, calendar of events,, health, technology, "Central Jersey Living", travel, special reports, special sections.

WEB ARCHIVE:   Past 7 days are free. Archive dates from January 1999 to present, with charge for articles older than 7 days. NEXIS: COUNWS January 1999 to present.

Courier-Post     http://www.courierpostonline.com/

COVERAGE:   Camden County and Southern New Jersey .

FEATURES:   Local and South Jersey news, investigative reports, local sports, weather, obituaries, classifieds, New Jersey School Report Cards for the following counties: Burlington, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem;  Community Guide; coverage of the USS New Jersey.

WEB ARCHIVE:  Past 7 days are free. Archive dates from January 1999 to present, with charge for articles older than 7 days. NEXIS: COUPST June 21, 2003 to present.

Daily Journal ( Vineland ) http://www.thedailyjournal.com

COVERAGE: Vineland , Millville , Cumberland County .

FEATURES: Local news, selected national news, sports, obituaries, classifieds, living, opinion, photos, weather, communities, technology.

WEB ARCHIVE: Past 7 days are free. Paid Archive dates from August 25, 1999 to the present. NEXIS: DLYJNL April 8, 2003 to present.

Daily Record      http://www.dailyrecord.com/

COVERAGE:   Morris and Sussex Counties .

FEATURES:   Local news and sports, obituaries, classifieds, weather, movie times, dining ideas, columnists, government, special reports,

WEB ARCHIVE:  Past 7 days are free. Archive dates from January 7, 2004 to present. Enter search term in box and click "Go"; user will be taken to a screen where a basic search can be performed, with the option of doing an advanced search. NEXIS: DRECRD January 7, 2004 to present.

Gloucester County Times      http:// www.nj.com/gloucester

COVERAGE:   Gloucester County

FEATURES:   Local news, business, columnists, editorials, classifieds, obituaries, sports, weather, entertainment, lifestyles, lottery results, site index.

WEB ARCHIVE:   14 day free news archive; there is no access to older articles.

Hunterdon County Democrat http://www.nj.com/hunterdon

COVERAGE: Hunterdon County

FEATURES: Local news, business, editorials, obituaries, entertainment, classifieds, special features.

WEB ARCHIVE: Current 4 weeks are free. Paid archive from April 1991 to present.

Home News Tribune      http://www.mycentraljersey.com

COVERAGE:   Middlesex, Somerset and Union Counties .

FEATURES:   Local, Central Jersey , and State news; classifieds, real estate, .weather, special reports,

WEB ARCHIVE:   Past 7 days free archive. NEXIS: HOMENT December 20, 2002 to present.

Jersey Journal      http://www.nj.com/jjournal

COVERAGE: Jersey City and Hudson County .

FEATURES: Local news, sports, opinion, obituaries, classifieds, entertainment, cams and radio, special reports, NJ State House news.

WEB ARCHIVE: Past 14 days free archive. Paid archive from 1999 to present.

New Jersey Herald      http://www.njherald.com/

COVERAGE:   Sussex County .

FEATURES:   Local news, sports, weather, classifieds, obituaries, photos, special sections and features, local resources guide.

WEB ARCHIVE: Past 7 days are free by clicking on "Today's Paper" button. Paid archive from May 2003 to present.  

North Jersey Herald & News    http://www.heraldandnews.net

COVERAGE:   Bergen , Essex, Hudson , Morris and Passaic Counties

FEATURES:   Local news, sports, entertainment, education, health, columnists, opinion, obituaries, special reports, classifies, weather, lottery.

WEB ARCHIVE:   Past 12 months are free. Paid archive back to 1993.

Ocean County Observer      http://www.ocobserver.com

COVERAGE:   Ocean County .

FEATURES:   Local news, opinion, sports, business, obituaries, classifieds, seniors.

WEB ARCHIVE:   Past 7 days free. NEXIS: OCEAN covers December 20, 2002 to present.

Press of Atlantic City http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com

COVERAGE:   Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland and Ocean Counties .

FEATURES:   Local, state and national news, opinion, classifieds, sports, obituaries, entertainment, shore guide, photo gallery, special reports.,

WEB ARCHIVE:   Past 7 days are free. Paid archive through News.Library.com goes back to 1988.. User must register and use credit card to pay for articles.

Princeton Packet     http://www.packetonline.com/

COVERAGE:   Mercer, Hunterdon, Somerset , and Middlesex Counties : articles selectively chosen from Princeton Packet newspapers publishing group.

FEATURES:   Local news, business, entertainment, music events, museums, regional theatre listings, historic sites, classifieds, employment, sports, weather, special sections. 

WEB ARCHIVE: Past 14 days are free. Paid archive covers August 14, 2001 to present excluding past 14 days, which are free. Earlier free archive covers February 1998 - August 13, 2001.

Record     http://www.northjersey.com/

COVERAGE:   COVERAGE:   Bergen , Essex, Hudson , Morris and Passaic Counties

FEATURES:   Local news, sports, entertainment, education, health, columnists, opinion, obituaries, special reports, classifies, weather, lottery.

WEB ARCHIVE:   Past 12 months are free. Paid archive back to 1993. INFOTRAC Custom Newspapers from 1996 to present. DIALOG File 743: archive from 1989 to present. State Capitol Universe: State Newspapers of Record, archives from 1985 to present.

Star-Ledger     http://www.nj.com/starledger

COVERAGE:  Essex and other Northern New Jersey counties.

FEATURES:   Local, state and national news, business, sports, classifieds, obituaries, weather, entertainment, forums, cams and radio,

WEB ARCHIVE: Past 14 days free archive. Paid archive from May 1989 to present.

Trenton Times      http://www.nj.com/times/

COVERAGE:   Mercer and Burlington Counties .

FEATURES:  Local, state and national news, business, sports,  classifieds, obituaries, weather, entertainment, health and fitness, New Jersey School Report Cards, various camera views (beach, diner, etc.), traffic report (audio),  clickable map of New Jersey.

WEB ARCHIVE:   Past 14 days free archive. Paid archive from 1993 to present.

Trentonian     http://www.trentonian.com/

COVERAGE:   Mercer County , Central and Southern New Jersey .

FEATURES:   Local, state and national news, sports, obituaries, weather, classifieds, photo galleries, El Latino Expreso.

WEB ARCHIVE:   Not currently working as of December 2005.

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GROUP WEBSITES FOR SMALLER NEW JERSEY NEWSPAPERS

Localsource.com     http://www.localsource.com/

COVERAGE:   Essex and Union Counties, covering the towns of: Belleville, Bloomfield, Clark, Cranford, Glen Ridge, Hillside, Irvington, Kenilworth, Linden, Maplewood, Mountainside, Nutley, Orange, Rahway, Roselle, Roselle Park, South Orange, Springfield, Summit, Vailsburg, West Orange.

Belleville Post, Clark Eagle,Cranford Eagle, East Orange Record, Echo Leader of Mountainside and Springfield, Gazette Leader of Elizabeth and Hillside, Glen Ridge Paper, Independent Press of Bloomfield, Irvington Herald, Leader of Roselle Park and Kenilworth, News-Record of Maplewood and South Orange, Nutley Journal, Orange Transcript, Rahway Progress, Spectator Leader of Linden and Roselle, Summit Observer, Union Leader, Vailsburg Leader, West Orange Chronicle.

FEATURES:   Local news, sports, lifestyles, entertainment, community calendars, classifieds.

WEB ARCHIVE:   Past 14 days free archive.

Southernocean.com    http://www.southernocean.com/

COVERAGE:  Beach Haven Times, Beacon, Lacey Beacon, Tuckerton Beacon 

FEATURES:   Local news, fishing and boating, vacation rentals, community guide, real estate, classifieds, free vacation guide; links to "Islander"; links to Gannett newspapers.

WEB ARCHIVE:  Current week's local news. Selected stories and recipes archived about 6 months.

Thecoaststar.com    http://starnewsgroup.com/

COVERAGE:   "The Coast Star"   (southern Monmouth County ); "The Ocean Star" (northern Ocean County ).

FEATURES:   Local news, sports, obituaries, weather, classified, letters to the editor.

WEB ARCHIVE:   Archive appears to go back four years and is free, and searchable.

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SELECTED NATIONAL NEWSPAPERS ON THE WEB

Christian Science Monitor      http://www.csmonitor.com/

WEB ARCHIVE:    Current day plus five past days are full text with graphics for free.  Older web archive going back to 1908 is free to search, but there is a charge for downloading stories.

OTHER ELECTRONIC ARCHIVES:     NEXIS:  1980 - present ,  NEWS (CSM).  DIALOG: 1985 - present (file 715).  EBSCOHOST: 1995 - present, with 6 day lag.

New York Times      http://www.nytimes.com/

WEB ARCHIVE:   Current day and most of the past 7 days are available for free in full-text format. The Article Archive from 1996 to the present includes both free and or premium (paid) content, and does not include photographs, charts, and other illustrations. The Article Archive from Sept. 1851 to Dec. 1995 is hosted by ProQuest through their ProQuest Archiver service and all purchases are processed by ProQuest. These articles are in PDF format and do include photos, charts and graphs.

OTHER ELECTRONIC ARCHIVES:   NEXIS: June 1980 - present ( NEWS; NYT).

DIALOG has three separate files:  file 471 (current 90 days); file 474 (NY Times Abstracts, 1969 - present); file 600 ("Early Editions" - current day's paper only).

EBSCOHOST:  Masterfile contains abstracts only from 1989 - present, with a two day time lag for most current articles.

ACADEMIC ABSTRACTS FULL TEXT ULTRA: abstracts only, from 1989 -  present, with a 6 day time lag for most current articles.

 

Philadelphia Inquirer      http://www.philly.com/

WEB ARCHIVE:   Seven day archive available under "Keyword" search box at philly.com home page, which also includes the Philadelphia Daily News.  In  "Sites to Search" box, click "Inquirer-7 day". 

OTHER WEB ARCHIVE:   1981 - present at http://www.newslibrary.com/ .  Searching is free, but printing is $1.95 per article by charge card.

OTHER ELECTRONIC ARCHIVES:   DIALOG:  1983 - present (file 633).  NEXIS:  1996 - present (NEWS; PINQUR);   Philadelphia Inquirer Abstracts, May 1989 - present (NEWS; PHI).

USA Today      http://www.usatoday.com/

WEB ARCHIVE:   1994 - present, full text for free.

OTHER ELECTRONIC ARCHIVES:   DIALOG: 1989 - present  (file 703) and  most recent paper (file 600: Early Editions).  NEXIS:  1989 - present (NEWS; USATDY).

Wall Street Journal      http://www.wsj.com/

WEB ARCHIVE:   No free access.  Costs $59 per year, or $29 per year for subscribers to the print edition.  24 hour access to the daily edition if $.75.

OTHER ELECTRONIC ARCHIVES:   Dow Jones.   DIALOG: 1973 - present,  Wall Street Journal Abstracts (file 475).

Washington Afro-American      http://www.afro.com/

WEB ARCHIVE:   Current year plus two past years.  Searchable only by date.

OTHER ELECTRONIC ARCHIVE:   NEXIS: 1991 -  (NSAMER; ENW).

Washington Post     http://www.washingtonpost.com/

WEB ARCHIVE:   Current 14 days full text for free.  To search the older archive (from 1977 - up to two weeks ago)is free, but to retrieve full text of stories, you must establish an account.  The prices are:  $2.95 per article on weekdays, 6 am to 6pm Eastern Time, and $1.50 per article all other times.

OTHER ELECTRONIC ARCHIVES:   DIALOG May, 1983 - present (file 146), and today's paper on "Early Editions" (file 600).  NEXIS: 1977 - present  (NEWS; WPOST).

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MAJOR MEGA-SITES FOR NEWSPAPERS ON THE WEB

Newspapers - US and Worldwide
http:www.refdesk.com/papers.html

Lists newspapers by state and country; lists national news websites. Portal to newspaper archives.

U.S News Archives on the Web http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/internetarchives.html

Provides tables of newspapers and their archives. Maintained by volunteers of the Special Libraries Association News Division.

NewsVoyager http://www.newsvoyager.com

Descriptions of websites of and links to U.S. and international newspapers, magazines, city guides, associations, radio and TV stations.

NewsDirectory.com     http://www.newsdirectory.com/

Can search multiple publications simultaneously by topic or keyword to see citations and beginning paragraph of articles.

NewsLibrary.com     http://www.newslibrary.com/

COVERAGE:  Free searching of the archives of about 73 U.S. newspapers.  Dates of archives vary with newspaper.  FULL TEXT stories available for a fee:  $1.95 per story.  Sophisticated search engine with detailed searching instructions

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NEWSPAPERS IN THE NJ STATE LIBRARY COLLECTION

ASBURY PARK (Monmouth County)
Asbury Park Press (1968 - current)

ATLANTIC CITY (Atlantic County)
Atlantic City Press (1968 - current)

BORDENTOWN (Burlington County)
Register (May13 - June10, 1932)
Register News (Jan. 3, 1974 - June 27, 2002)

BRIDGETON (Cumberland County)
Bridgeton Evening News (1968 – 1977)
Bridgeton News (current four months)

BRIDGEWATER (Somerset County)
Courier News (current four months)

BURLINGTON (Burlington County)
New Jersey Gazette (1777 – 1778)
Burlington County Times (current four months)
Burlington Gazette (1835 – Aug. 25, 1848)
Dollar Newspaper and Burl. Co. Advtsr. (1856 – 1867)

CAMDEN (Camden County)
Courier-Post Oct. (1949 - current)

CAPE MAY (Cape May County)
Cape May County Herald Times (current four months)

ELIZABETH (Union County)
Daily Journal (Oct. 1, 1990 – Dec. 31, 1991)

ELMER (Salem County)
Elmer Times (June 1881 – 1987)

FREEHOLD (Monmouth County)
Monmouth Press (March 17, 1888 – Jan. 25, 1890)

GLOUCESTER COUNTY (Woodbury, NJ)
Gloucester County Times (current four months)

HACKENSACK (Bergen County)
Record Jan. (1960 – current)

HIGHTSTOWN (Mercer County)
Hightstown Excelsior (June 13, 1857 – March 26, 1859)
Hightstown Gazette (1965 - 1999)

HUNTERDON COUNTY (Flemington, NJ)
Hunterdon County Democrat (current four months)

JERSEY CITY (Hudson County)
Jersey City Telegraph (1847 – 1849)
Evening Telegraph (1849 – 1850)
Daily Telegraph (1850 – 1859)
American Standard (1859 – 1875)
Evening Journal (1867 – 1887)
Argus (1875 – 1884)
Jersey City Argus (1884 – 1891)
Jersey Journal (1941 – 1947) and current four months
Jersey City Reporter (Jan. 20, 1984 - Dec. 29, 2002

LONG BRANCH (Monmouth County)
Long Branch News (May 11, 1976 – May 7, 1979)
Atlanticville (May 14, 1979 – Dec. 30, 1999)

MEDFORD (Burlington County)
Central Record (Jan. 7, 1993 – June 27, 2002)

MORRISTOWN (Morris County)
Daily Record (current four months)

MOUNT OLIVE (Morris County)
Mt. Olive Chronicle (Jan. 2, 1992 – Dec. 30, 1999)

NEW BRUNSWICK (Middlesex County)
New Brunswick Daily Times (1871 – 1891)
Daily Times (1891 – 1907)
Weekly Times (1903 – 1906)
New Brunswick Times (1907 – 1916)
Home News Tribune (current four months)

NEWARK (Essex County)
Centinel of Freedom (1796 – 1820)
Newark Evening News (Sept. 1, 1883 – Aug. 31, 1972)
(strike from May 26, 1971 through April 4, 1972: no paper for this period)
Evening Star & Newark Advertiser (July 1, 1907 – Jan. 29, 1916)
Newark Star-Ledger 1945 - current
Sunday Evening News (Nov. 24, 1946 - Aug. 31, 1972)
(this is on "Newark Evening News" and "Evening News" microfilm).

OCEAN COUNTY (Toms River, NJ)
Ocean County Observer (current four months)

PARAMUS (Bergen County)
Suburban News (Feb. 1987 - Feb. 1992)

PASSAIC (Passaic County)
Herald News (current four months)
Passaic City Record (June 11, 1890 – Nov. 30, 1907)
Passaic Herald News (1968 – 1977)

PRINCETON (Mercer County)
Princeton Packet (current four months)

RIDGEWOOD (Bergen County)
Ridgewood Herald (July 13, 1901 – Jan 25, 1940)
Ridgewood News (January 4-25, 1940)
Ridgewood Herald News (Feb 1, 1940 – Dec. 31, 1959)
Sunday News (Jan. 7, 1940 – June 26, 1949; 1950 – 1973)
Ridgewood News (1992 – 1995)

RIVERSIDE (Burlington County)
Triple Towns Tribune (June 16, 1932 – June 5, 1941)

SUSSEX COUNTY (Newton, NJ)
New Jersey Herald (current four months)

TRENTON (Mercer County)
New Jersey Gazette (1778 – 1786)
State Gazette and New Jersey Advertiser (1797 – 1798)
Federalist, New Jersey Gazette (1798 – 1800)
New Jersey State Gazette (1799 – 1800)
Federalist and New Jersey State Gazette (1800 – 1802)
Trenton Federalist (1802 – 1829)
New Jersey State Gazette (1829 – 1839)
New Jersey Gazette (1840 – 1857)
Mercer Standard (Nov. 11, 1854 – Feb. 23, 1856)
Daily State Gazette and Republican (1857 – 1863)
Daily State Gazette (1863 – 1918)
Trenton Times (May 1883 - current)
State Gazette (1918 – 1927)
Trenton State Gazette (1927 – 1942)
Trentonian (1964 - current)
Sunday Times Advertiser (1883 - 1975)
The Trentonian from Sept. 3, 1946 - Dec. 31, 1963 is held by NJ State Archives.

VINELAND (Cumberland County)
Daily Journal (current four months)
Vineland Times Journal (1968 – 1977)

WEST ORANGE (Essex County)
West Orange Weekly Review (June 5, 1931 – May 13, 1938)
West Orange Chronicle (1963 – 1969)

“Early American Newspapers” is a set of 18 orange-colored microfilm boxes filed after the older newspapers listed above, and consists of the following titles:

Centinel of Freedom, Newark , NJ (1796 – 1820)
New Jersey Gazette, Burlington & Trenton , NJ (1777 – 1786)
New York Gazette (Weyman's), New York , NY (1759 – 1767)
New York Gazette and Weekly Mercury, New York , NY (1768 – 1783)
New York Mercury, New York , NY (1752 – 1768)
New York Weekly Journal, New York , NY (1733 – 1751)
Rivington's New York Gazette and the Royal Gazette, NY (1773 – 1783)
Pennsylvania Chronicle Philadelphia, PA (1767 – 1774)

The "Centinel of Freedom" is also held by the New Jersey State Archives as the “Sentinel of Freedom” from Oct. 4, 1797 – Dec. 18, 1894.

Notes:

The New Jersey State Archives has over 1,000 additional New Jersey newspapers on microfilm in their collection. The list, which is arranged by county, is available on their website at:

http://www.state.nj.us/state/darm/links/newspaper-1.html

The New Jersey State Library does not have any newspapers covering the years 1787 – 1796.

The "Daily True American" from 1849 -1908 is held by the NJ State Archives; they have a card index of the vital records information that it contains, such as marriages and deaths. The State Library has some bound volumes of the True American from 1802 – 1829.

 

National Newspapers received by the New Jersey State Library

Christian Science Monitor (January 1951 - current)

Philadelphia Inquirer (January 1970 - current)

New York Times (Sept. 18, 1951 - current)

Philadelphia Inquirer (January 1970 - current)

U.S.A. Today (current four months)

Wall Street Journal (January 1958 -current)

Washington Afro-American (current four months)

Washington Post (current four months)

 

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