The Boley Law Library has two new online databases: the Wall Street Journal and the Historical New York Times.
This is particularly good timing, in that both LexisNexis and Westlaw have recently limited access to the Wall Street Journal. Links to both are available on our Databases & Indexes page, or on the Online Research stations behind the Reference desk. Read on for details:
WALL STREET JOURNAL
The law library now subscribes to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) via the database supplier Proquest. Full text of the WSJ is provided from 1984 – present. The WSJ can be searched by keyword or browsed by date.
Unlike Westlaw or LexisNexis, Proquest makes it easy to read the latest edition of the WSJ (posted every morning). Simply use the Wall Street Journal link provided on our Databases & Indexes page titled, “Read today’s paper/Browse by date.” The WSJ is available from on- or off-campus to the L&C Law School community.
LexisNexis recently gained control of the WSJ from Westlaw, along with a number of other Dow Jones News services. Thus, the Journal is no longer available on Westlaw. However, the WSJ is also not yet available on any law school LexisNexis accounts.
LexisNexis has stated that it plans to provide the WSJ to law schools, but has not committed to a date. For now, only abstracts (from 1973) are available on either Westlaw or LexisNexis.
NEW YORK TIMES HISTORICAL
We are quite pleased to introduce the Historical New York Times via Proquest. This is a fully-searchable collection of the New York Times from 1851 – 2001, with full images of every page.
The Historical New York Times provides these images of the actual pages in PDF format, complete with graphics, ads, and other newspaper ephemera. These images are not found in any of our other newspaper databases or those found on LexisNexis and Westlaw, and are a fantastic research tool. Links are provided on our Databases & Indexes page for keyword searching or browsing by date (organized first by years, choose 1851-1857 or 1857-2001) .
The daily New York Times (Final New York City edition), and full-text coverage from 1980 are now available on both LexisNexis and Westlaw.
For more information and assistance with any of our databases contact a reference librarian at the Law Library Reference Desk in person, by phone (503.768.6688), or by email (lawlib@lclark.edu).
