For current news coverage, some databases will include news and magazine articles. You can usually filter your results only to see news sources or even filter to specific publications.
Oberlin also has a lot of news-specific databases, which may be international or historical. Our A-Z database list will let you browse all of them.
Multidisciplinary - good for nearly all subjects. Scholarly and trade journals, popular magazines, newspapers, conference proceedings, book reviews, and more.
As an Oberlin student, you have current access to both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Once you create your account, you can read any articles behind a paywall and use their phone or tablet apps.
Institutional access to the NYTimes.com is provided to all current Oberlin College students, faculty, and staff.
If you are new to campus or have not previously registered for Oberlin's institutional NYTimes access
Once registered you’ll be able to access NYTimes.com by logging into your account from any computer/tablet/device you use.
Students: when registering you will be asked for your date of graduation from Oberlin; your status will stay active through that date, with no need to reactivate/re-authenticate.
Faculty/staff: you will have to re-authenticate annually, 364 days from when you last registered/authenticated for your NYTimes.com Pass. You may not reactivate your Pass until your previous access has expired.
To reactivate your Pass:
Please contact the research help desk with any questions - reference@oberlin.edu.