Ask Boley Law Library

We have access to many different newspapers, however, if you've gone through the following steps and still have not found the article, please feel free to put in an ILL request for the item. We still may not be able to get it for you, but we will try.

Steps to try first:

Look to our catalog to see if we have access to the newspaper. Westlaw and Lexis have access to many national and regional newspapers and you can find links to the newspapers in our catalog. If we have an article available through a third party site, we will not order an article from the original party. A hint to finding an article in Westlaw and Lexis. After using the catalog link to get to the newspaper the title may be slightly different, so use the date limiters and author to help pinpoint the correct article.

We may also have access to a newspaper you find in our catalog using microfilm either here or at the Watzek library on the undergraduate campus. If you are not sure how to use the microfilm reader, please ask at the circulation desk at Boley or Watzek and someone will be happy to show you how to use the machine. You can even make a pdf of the article from the microfilm!

We have two databases that scan multiple newspapers at the same time. Newspaper Source and Newsstand can be helpful tools to search many newspapers on a specific topic.

We have access to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. We also have older issues of the New York Times in our New York Times, Historical database. There are many helpful hints on accessing and searching newspapers in our News Research Guide.

The Oregonian is also available through Westlaw from 1987 to present. If you have a Multnomah County Library Card you can also use it for full online access to the Oregonian from 1861 to 1987. Many papers may have their own accessible archives, so you are encouraged to check the newspaper, too.

If you cannot find your article using the above processes, please turn in an ILL request for the article and include as much information as you have including things like: the newspaper name, article title, author, date, page.