Search for News

Pittsburgh Region

• Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Research Databases
  http://www.carnegielibrary.org/subject/databases/
  If you are an Allegheny County resident with a Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh library card, you can access some of these databases from home. Use the "Newspaper" and "Magazine" databases to find both current and past news articles.
• EIN Magazine and Newspaper Databases
  http://www.einetwork.net/ein/databases.html
  If you are an Allegheny County resident with a library card from a municipality other than Pittsburgh, you can access some of these databases from home. Use the "Newspaper" databases to find both current and past news articles.
• Pittsburgh Post Gazette Search
  http://search.post-gazette.com/
  Articles posted on post-gazette.com since 1998. Does not include the entire archives of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette NewsBank Database Search - 1990-Current
  Click here for Remote Access with a library card barcode.
  Complete full-text content of local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded.
  This is an online subscription database of Post-Gazette newspaper articles accessible from the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Main Library and branches and other Allegheny County public libraries (within the EINetwork) and remotely with an EINetwork library card barcode number.
• Newslibrary.com
  http://www.newslibrary.com/
  News Library at NewsBank. Use this site to search the back issues of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette from 1990 for free and download articles for a fee if you don't have access to the above full-text database.
• Newspaper Source (subscription)
  (Newspapers/Magazines in Access PA POWER Library)
  Provides selected full-text coverage for more than 240 newspapers and other sources.
• Tribune-Review Website Search
  http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/search/
  Site search is limited to articles published on the website since 2001. Does not include all articles published by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
• Tribune-Review Archive Search
  http://library.triblive.com/
  Archive contains most locally written articles that have appeared in the Tribune-Review and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (1988-). Photographs are not available.

United States

• AllTheWeb: News
  http://www.alltheweb.com/?cat=news
  Search for recent and breaking news articles in many languages. Good for international news.
• Google News Search
  http://news.google.com/
  Google's News Search (BETA), introduced in March 2002, presents information culled from many of the world's news sources collected over the previous week. You can also view versions for other countries. A nice feature is that you can subscribe to an email alert or RSS feed for a news search.

• New York Times NewsBank Database Search
  Click here for remote access with a Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh library card barcode.
  Complete full-text content covering 2000-present.

• NewsLibrary.com
  http://www.newslibrary.com/
  You can set up an account at this site and search the back issues of many newspapers from major cites in the United States and then pay a per article fee ($2.95). There is a reduced rate for article packs.
• Topix.net
  http://www.topix.net/
  A news aggregator that pulls stories from news sources around the world and categorizes them by topic. RSS Feeds and email alerts also available by topic.

International

• ingenta.com
  A British databases that provides access to over a million articles from professional and specialist publications that you can't find through any other web search engine. Guest users may search for free. There is a fee for full-text articles (science journals in conjunction with Science Direct). UnCover, the database of current article information from the CARL Corporation has merged with ingenta.