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Ad Access
Over 7,000 U.S. and Canadian advertisements covering five product categories - Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda - dated between 1911 and 1955.

Artstor This link opens in a new window
Over one million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with software tools for teaching and research. Note: In 2023, Artstor images moved to the JSTOR platform.

Life Photo Archive
Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.

Journalism Websites

Freedom Forum
The Freedom Forum is a nonpartisan foundation dedicated to free press, free speech and free spirit for all people. The foundation focuses on three priorities: the Newseum, First Amendment freedoms and newsroom diversity.
Iowa Freedom of Information Council
The Iowa Freedom of Information Council was organized in the fall of 1976 and formally incorporated in 1977 as a non-profit consortium of newspapers, radio and television stations, media associations, educators, publishers, broadcasters and others interested in openness in government and First Amendment rights.
Muckety
News site that charts relationships between people and events illustrated by interactive graphs with links to relevant articles.
Poynteronline
The Poynter Institute is a school for journalists, future journalists, and teachers of journalists. No matter what their job title may be, journalists come to Poynter in a search for excellence.

SuperSearch

Iowa Newspapers

Cowles Library offers Drake students, faculty and staff access to Des Moines Register:

Des Moines Register (full-text)
This database includes full-text PDF coverage from 1871 to present. It's updated daily. Note: the most recent three months are HTML-only.

Print & Microfilm

The library keeps copies of the print edition for the most recent three months. Issues from 1915-present (with an approximate six month delay) are available on microfilm. Indexes are available in the print reference collection (Reference AI21 .D55) for 1975-1987, from UNI for September 1965-June 1976, and from Des Moines Public Library for 1986-present.

Iowa Historic Newspapers
Archives of The Des Moines Register (1871-2008) and The Iowa City Press-Citizen (1965-2008).

National & International Newspapers

New York Times digital access
Access New York Times from 1851-present via the web or through the New York Times app. Register here: http://researchguides.drake.edu/nyt

New York Times (Proquest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new window
Full-text including scanned digital images of the New York Times, 1851-2020
Chicago Tribune (Proquest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new window
Digital version of the Chicago Tribune (1849-1989).
Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window
Features newspapers, magazines, and journals from various ethnic and minority presses.
The Listener - Historical Archive This link opens in a new window
The Listener (1929-1991) was the weekly newspaper published by the BBC. The complete archive of this landmark publication is an essential witness to the intellectual and cultural history of the twentieth century.
Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new window
Newspapers, television and radio news transcripts.
NewsVault This link opens in a new window
Cross-search Gale newspaper archives using a single interface. Drake has access to the complete (London) Times Digital Archive and the 19th Century U.S. Newspaper Digital Archive.
Times (London) Digital Archive This link opens in a new window
The Times Digital Archive, 1785-2014, is Gale's online historical archive, delivering every page as published from 200 years of The Times (London) to your library.
Wall Street Journal (Proquest) This link opens in a new window
Full-text of the newspaper's eastern edition, 1984 - present.
U.S. Newsstream This link opens in a new window
News content from top U.S. national and regional newspapers.
U.S. Newsstream enables users to search current U.S. news content, as well as archives that stretch back into the 1980s. It features top newspapers, wires, broadcast transcripts, blogs, and news sites in full-text format. U.S. Newsstream provides key national and regional news sources from the U.S. and includes access to top titles, including The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Newsday, and Chicago Tribune.

Magazine Archives

Architectural Digest Archive This link opens in a new window
The Architectural Digest Archive is an extensive collection of the famed international design magazine from its first issue in 1920 through 2011, presented in a comprehensive cover-to-cover format. Published monthly by Condé Nast, the magazine has enjoyed a longstanding reputation as the definitive source for architects and interior designers as well as for everyday design enthusiasts. Each issue features beautiful photography and information on architecture and interior design, art and antiques, travel destinations, and extraordinary products.
Art Magazine Collection Archive This link opens in a new window
Art Magazine Collection Archives contains indexing and full text (including covers and advertisements) for Magazine Antiques (1922-2016), ARTnews (1902-2006) and Art in America (1913-2015). This archive provides a history of collecting over the course of the 20th century, as well as a comprehensive record of fine arts, art history, interior design, decorative arts, and architecture in the 20th and early 21st century. [Content from ARTnews and Art in America was sourced in part from the New York Public Library.]
The Atlantic Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
The Atlantic Magazine Archive contains indexing, abstracting and full text for the complete archive (including Covers and advertisements) of this leading monthly magazine beginning in November 1857 and ending April 2014.
Bloomberg Businessweek Archive This link opens in a new window
The Bloomberg Businessweek Archive contains indexing, abstracting, and full text for the complete archive of Businessweek, beginning with its first issue in 1929 and ending in December 2000.
Ebony Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
Ebony is one of the key Afro-American magazines of the 20th century, covering 20th and 21st-Century current events, art, design, politics and culture, literature, advertising, and more. Their editorial philosophy is to “showcase the best and brightest as well as highlighting the disparities in Black life in the United States and worldwide”. The Ebony Magazine Archive contains indexing, abstracting and full text for the complete archive (including Covers and Advertisements) beginning in November 1945 to June 2014.
Education Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
Full text backfiles of 26 major magazines and trade publications in the field of education from 1910-2015.
Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
Full-text backfiles of major magazines and trade publications in the field of entertainment from 1880-2000.
Esquire Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
The Esquire Magazine Archive consists of cover to cover processing dating back to issue number one in October 1933 through March 2014 of the American popular men's magazine Esquire, published by Hearst Communications.
Fortune Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
The Fortune Magazine Archive consists of cover to cover processing dating back to issue number one in 1930 of the American business magazine Fortune, published by Time Inc.
Jet Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
JET Magazine Archive covers the civil rights movement, politics, education, and other social topics with an African American focus. It includes over 3,000 issues providing a broad view of news, culture, and entertainment from its first issue in 1951 through 2014.
Maclean's Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
The Maclean's Magazine Archive contains indexing, abstracting, and full text for the complete archive of this influential Canadian magazine beginning in 1905 and ending in 2015.
People Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
The People Magazine Archive consists of cover to cover processing dating back to issue number one in 1974 of the American popular magazine People, published by Time Inc.
Sports Illustrated Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
The Sports Illustrated Magazine Archive consists of cover to cover processing dating back to issue number one in 1954 of the American sports magazine Sports Illustrated, published by Time Inc.
U.S. News & World Report Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
The U. S. News & World Report Magazine Archive (1926-1984) database consists of the influential news magazine U. S. News & World Report (1948-1984) -- plus the predecessor titles: United States Daily (1926-1933), United States News (1933-1948), and World Report (1946-1948). Each title features cover to cover processing, which renders all of the content from the front cover to the back cover fully searchable, including the advertisements.
Vanity Fair Archive This link opens in a new window
The Vanity Fair Magazine Archive contains indexing, abstracting and full text for the complete archive (including Covers and Advertisements) beginning in September 1913 to February 1936 and March 1983 to October 2015.
Vogue Archive This link opens in a new window
Entire run of Vogue magazine (US Edition) from 1892 to the present day.
Women's Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
Archive of consumer magazines aimed at a female readership, including Better Homes & Gardens, Chatelaine, Good Housekeeping, Ladies' Home Journal, Parents, and Redbook.
Women's Wear Daily Archive This link opens in a new window
Entire run of Women's Wear Daily from 1910 to the present day.