Characteristics of Newspaper Databases Newspaper databases, like many other databases, vary in coverage and scope. Coverage Newspaper databases may cover foreign, national, state, or regional newspapers. The coverage may include mainstream daily newspapers, business, and alternative or specialty papers. Databases may index all content of newspaper titles. Some articles will be full-text, others will not.
Databases vary in which articles in the publication they include.
In this context, a full-text product indicates a newspaper file that comes directly from the paper s publisher and includes all articles. An example is Academic Universe available through the Library. Collection coverage databases are not meant to be comprehensive and cover all articles in a newspaper, but extract relevant articles on selected themes, such as business or international issues. Examples include ProQuest Newspapers, Global Newsbank and Ethnic Newswatch . Some, but not all, articles in these databases are full-text.