Databases for Newspapers - Note some may go back to the late 90's and some back to early 2000.

• Alternative Press Index - indexes over 250 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Coverage is international and interdisciplinary.     
• Columbia Daily Tribune Archives - Fulltext archives of the Columbia Daily Tribune from January 1993 to present.
• Factiva - contains business and financial data on companies from around the world. It also provides access to current issues and an archive of over 10,000 + global publications including 600 newswires, Reuters, radio & TV transcripts, websites, company & industry information, market charting, etc. License terms restrict access to MU students, faculty and staff only.   
• LexisNexis Academic - Current news, business, corporate news and ethnic news.
• MerlinOne - The archives of the Columbia Missourian print edition are available from February, 2002. You will need to ask the Journalism library staff or the Missourian Newspaper library for the username and password.
• Newsbank - Indexes the Kansas City Star and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, as well as news articles about regional and state events and issues. more info...
• Newspaper Source - Provides selected full text for nearly 30 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers.    
• PressDisplay - Over 200 newspapers...More than 50 countries...Original format, layout and pagination...(Only available in the J-School buildings)

Newspapers not online

• Newspapers in Microfilm
  Located in Special Collections Department Ellis Library 4th Floor West.
  Microfilm, including the film for the New York Times and other newspapers, is available. Search Merlin to find the dates and papers available. Microfilm Reader/Printers are located on the 4th Floor.
  The Special Collections office is open:
  M-Th. 8am-9:30pm.
  Fri. 8-5. Sat. 10am-5pm.
  Sun. Noon-5pm and 6:30pm-9:30pm.
• Merlin Library Catalog list of newspaper directories, some current some historical
• National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC)
  includes two databases: the Research Libraries Group Union Catalog of Archival and Mixed Materials, and the OCLC Manuscripts Database, a sub-set of WorldCat. Together these provide access to 1 million catalog records describing archival and manuscript collections in all subject areas, in public, research, and special libraries, and in museums, state archives, and historical societies throughout North America and around the world.

Historical Magazines and Journals

• 19th Century Masterfile - 19th Century Masterfile is an index to periodical articles appearing in British and American scholarly journals from 1802 to 1906. Indexing is by key word only, and there is no fulltext.  
• America History and Life - contains citations and abstracts of books, dissertations, and articles from approximately 2,000 journals published worldwide. Covers all aspects of U.S. and Canadian history, culture, and current affairs from prehistoric times to the present.     
• American Periodical Series Online - American Periodical Series Online is a full-text collection of some 1000 magazines and journals published between 1741 and 1900. Titles include Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine, the first American professional journals, and several consumer magazines still in publication, such as Vanity Fair, Harper's Magazine, and Ladies' Home Journal. The search interface allows you to search the complete text, including tables of contents. Articles are linked to the corresponding page images, allowing downloading and printing in PDF format .  
• JSTOR - A full-text database consisting of the Arts and Sciences I, II, III, IV, Ecology & Botany and General Science Collections which provide access to the back files of over 300 scholarly journals. Areas included are history, sociology, business, economics, ecology, literature, mathematics, music, political science, population studies, Asian studies, philanthropy and finance.  

Books

• Sara Lockwood Williams - Twenty Years of Journalism Education: A History of the School of Journalism of the University of Missouri Columbia, Missouri, U.S.A 1929.

• University of Missouri Bulletin - Journalism Series this series deals with issues and events in journalism, some are historical events from the Missouri School of Journalism
• Savitar's (University of Missouri-Columbia Yearbooks) 1895-1985

General Digitized Collections

• MU Brick & Mortar - Building and Infrastructure Archives University of Missouri-Columbia
• St. Louis Worlds Fair Postcards
• September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack Coverage - The collection consists of domestic and international magazines and newspapers that show how the September 11th terrorist attack was portrayed in the media. A number of Missouri newspapers are represented. It also includes 35 mm slides of the covers of much of the material.
• Ellis' list of digitized collections
• A Chronology of U.S. Historical Documents
• Making of America - Digital Library - Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 10,000 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.