Research and Course Guides: Fake News: Resources at our Library

Subscription Databases with Full Text Current Newspapers

These databases are available only to current MSSU students, faculty and staff from off-campus. Community members and others not affiliated with the university must be in the library to access the materials available via these databases.

Access World News
Contains local, regional, national, and international newspapers including The Joplin Globe, The Kansas City Star, USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, The Guardian, and The Times of India. Many newspapers have decades of access as well as current news.
International Newsstream
A sub-database of ProQuest Central; provides recent and archival news content outside of the US and Canada, featuring 660 of the world's top newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-text format
News Stream
Includes national and leading regional papers such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA TODAY, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, The Atlanta Journal- Constitution, Barron's, The Boston Globe, The Guardian, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Washington Post.
Nexis Uni (LexisNexis Academic)
Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information as well as U.S. Supreme Court decisions back to 1790.

Additional Databases to Search

CQ Researcher
Single-themed weekly reports providing an overview, background and chronology of issues along with an assessment of current situation, tables, maps, pro/con statements, and bibliographies of key sources.

CQ Researcher Reports

Digital Journalism
Jost, Kenneth. "Digital Journalism." CQ Researcher, 30 May 2014, pp. 457-80
Media Bias
Kiener, Robert. "Media Bias." CQ Researcher, 3 May 2013, pp. 401-24.
Trust in Media
McCutcheon, Chuck. "Trust in Media." CQ Researcher, 9 June 2017, pp. 481-508.

Print Newspapers in Spiva Library

Most of our newspapers are available via online subscriptions. However, Spiva Library still subscribes to a small number of paper (print) newspapers. A few are even available in both formats - print & online. You will find the following print newspapers on the shelf closest to the Reference desk on the 3rd floor. They are filed alphabetically by their titles.

LOCAL & REGIONAL	NATIONAL	INTERNATIONAL
Bolivar Herald Free Press	Chicago Tribune*	China Weekly
Carl Junction Jasper County Citizen	New York Times*	Jerusalem Post
The Chart**	USA Today*	Le Monde
The Joplin Globe*	Wall Street Journal*	DIE ZEIT
Lamar Democrat
Lawrence County Record
Neosho Daily News*
Seneca News Dispatch
Springfield News Leader
Tulsa World*
Webb City Sentinel

*also available online via library subscriptions; you must be a current MSSU student, faculty or staff member to access the online papers from off-campus

**MSSU student newspaper - freely available online to anyone with internet access