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Note: See our Brevard
and Florida pages
for links to local media.
Databases
- NewsBank Newspaper Indexes
Note: To access these databases from your home
or other location outside a Brevard County Library,
click
here.
Florida Today
Archives - Full text content of local Brevard
and regional news from 1999.
Newsbank Full-Text
Newspapers - Full-text content of 150 U.S. newspapers,
including USA Today, Christian Science Monitor, and
14 Florida papers.
Obituaries
and Death Notices - A collection of newspaper
obituaries and death notices. Good resource for genealogical
research.
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Blogs
Blogging Basics
- , About.com’s directory of Web log uses, roles
and etiquette.
Create a Free Blog: Here are a few of many
free blog hosts available on the Web:
AOL
Journals
Blogger
LiveJournal
WordPress
Brevard/Florida Resources
Radio
Stations - Search for radio stations by zip code,
state, country, call letters, or format.
Florida
Newspapers Online - The State Library of Florida
maintains this list of newspapers links that offer
searchable archives or just a table of contents.
Florida
Television Stations
Florida Today
- Offers local news, job searching, classified ads
and space coverage. No archives. NOTE: Newsbank
indexes provides full-text articles from Florida Today
(searchable only at one of Brevard
County Libraries).
Hometown
News - Weekly newspaper for Central Florida communities
including Brevard County.
Orlando
Sentinel - Daily newspaper of Orlando and central
Florida.
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National News
Check these major news sources for frequently updated
national news:
ABC News - In
addition to featuring national and international news,
it includes recaps and transcripts and selected video
clips back through late April 1997 from many of its
news programs, including Nightline, 20/20, and PrimeTime
Live. Searchable.
CBS News -
United States and international headline news and
videos.
CNN Interactive
- Headlines and stories from CNN. More than a years
worth of past articles can be searched. Offers a compilation
of articles for long running stories or events.
Economist
- "The International Weekly Journal of News,
Ideas, Opinion, and Analysis." Features selected
articles from the current issue, an archive of past
issues, a style guide, and a library of key articles
from past issues.
Fox News -
Current United States and International news, including
politics, technology, health, and weather.
Google News
- Search for news articles in roughly 4500 sources
from the past 30 days.
MSNBC
- Provides the latest news and feature stories from
around the globe, in-depth reports on various topics.
New York Times
- Search the archive for articles back to 1996. Access
for articles from the previous 7 days is free, but
a password is required.
USA
Today - Nationwide news is updated hourly. Archives
are available from 1988 to present. Purchase back
issues or reprints.
Washington Post - Search the archives of the Post
back to 1977 and most of the Associated Press wire
for two weeks. The full text of articles that appear
in the print version, including those from the AP
wire service, are also provided. There is a fee for
full-text articles.
Yahoo! News
- Search for articles from the past seven days, provided
by Reuters General News, Reuters Securities News,
PR Newswire, Business Wire, Motley Fool and UPI. Can
be searched by topic or region.
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Other News
Other news sources on the Web:
Government
Documents in the News - This page offers full
text government documents pertaining to such timely
subjects as Abdullah Ocalan's Arrest, China and Theft
of Nuclear Secrets, Colorado High School Shooting,
G8 Summit, Gun Control Laws, Kosovo, and more. Archived
through 1995. From the University of Michigan Government
Documents center.
News
and Newspapers Online - A list of links to domestic
and international newspaper websites.
News Directory
- A listing of the world's English-language media
websites. Currently 3300 newspapers and 4800 magazines
are listed, as well as more than 1,000 U.S. television
broadcasters. Newspapers are browsable geographically
and magazines geographically and by subject. Also
has a list of newspapers with searchable archives
and links to all the organizations that provide breaking
news.
Newspapers Online
- Compiles links to newspaper websites in U.S and
world. Includes links to local weekly shoppers, penny
savers, local community papers, trade journals and
business journals.
U.S.
News Archives - Search newspaper archives and
view or order articles for a fee.
Vanderbilt
Television News Archive - The Archive began taping
the evening news broadcasts of the three major networks,
ABC, CBS, and NBC, on August 5, 1968. This collection
has been abstracted with story level descriptions.
Also has a database of special reports and periodic
broadcasts and specialized collections such as the
Gulf War. Individuals may make video tape loan requests
for reference, classroom instruction, and research.
Searchable and browsable.
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