The University of Delaware Library provides online access to both current and historical newspapers. Many of the newspapers are available in full-text databases. The databases offer either text-only articles or images and text, including fashion advertisements.
This page describes some of the e-newspaper resources of interest to fashion and apparel students.
New Subscribers: (have never had a personal or UDel account)
To create your new, free account, use this link: www.nytimes.com/activate-access/edu-access.
Existing New York Times Online Subscribers
Note: If you have an existing, paid NYT subscription, you must cancel it before you can activate the free UD Library provided subscription. You may cancel by emailing customercare@nytimes.com, connecting with a chat agent on the site, or calling 800-591-9233.
After cancelling your existing account:
Tips & Troubleshooting:
Registration Instructions
*If you already have a personal membership to the WSJ, call 1-800-JOURNAL & to inform the WSJ that you are switching to the membership provided by the University of Delaware.*
Vendor Lyrasis. Publisher LexisNexis.
Full-text newspapers, magazines, & journals of the ethnic & minority press, providing access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. Includes unique community publications not found in any other database, as well as top scholarly journals on ethnicities & ethnic studies.
Nearly a quarter of the articles are presented in Spanish. Dozens of major Latino publications are featured, including El Nuevo Herald & El Chicano Weekly.
The database also contains Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, & Hispanic American periodicals. (Coverage: 1959 --)
Ethnic NewsWatch™ comprehensively covers these ethnic categories:
African American/Caribbean/African
Arab/Middle Eastern
Asian/Pacific Islander
European/Eastern European
Hispanic
Jewish
Native People