Electronic Arcticles & Databases

Newspapers Available Through the State Library

We subscribe to newspapers from throughout the state of Alaska. Stop by and browse the large collection of newspapers available in our reading room.

Newspaper Holdings on Paper

Alphabetical by Title

  • Alaska Digest (Anchorage) - irregular
  • Alaska Journal of Commerce
  • Alaska Post (Fort Richardson)
  • Alaska Star (Eagle River)
  • Anchorage Daily News
  • Anchorage Press
  • Arctic Sounder (Kotzebue)
  • Bristol Bay Times (Dillingham)
  • Capital City Weekly
  • Chickaloon News (Chickaloon)
  • Chilkat Valley News (Haines)
  • Copper River Record (Copper Center)
  • Cordova Times
  • Daily Sitka Sentinel (Sitka)
  • Delta Discovery
  • Delta Wind (Delta Junction)
  • Dutch Harbor Fisherman
  • Fairbanks Daily News Miner
  • Fairweather Reporter (Gustavus)
  • Homer News
  • Homer Tribune
  • Juneau Empire
  • Ketchikan Daily News
  • Kodiak Daily Mirror
  • Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman (Palmer)
  • Mukluk News (Tok)
  • Nome Nugget
  • Peninsula Clarion (Soldotna/Kenai)
  • Petersburg Pilot
  • Polar Press
  • Redoubt Reporter
  • Seward Phoenix Log
  • Skagway News
  • Sourdough Sentinel (Elmendorf AFB)
  • Southeast Alaska's Island News (Prince of Wales Island)
  • Talkeetna Times (Talkeetna)
  • Tundra Drums (Bethel)
  • Turnagain Times (Girdwood/Prince William Sound area)
  • Valdez Star
  • Whalesong
  • Wrangell Sentinel
  • Wrangell St. Elias News

Alphabetical by City & Region

  • Anchorage
    • Alaska Digest - irregular
    • Alaska Star
    • Alaska Journal of commerce
    • Anchorage Daily News
    • Mukluk Telegraph
    • Anchorage Press
  • Aniak, Bering Strait and Bethel
    • Tundra Drums
  • Chickaloon
    • Chickaloon News
  • Copper Center
    • Copper River Record
  • Cordova
    • Cordova Times
  • Delta Junction
    • Delta Wind
  • Dillingham
    • Bristol Bay Times
  • Dutch Harbor
    • Dutch Harbor Fisherman
  • Eagle River
    • Alaska Star
  • Eielson AFB
    • Polar Press
  • Elmendorf AFB
    • Sourdough Sentinel
  • Fairbanks
    • Fairbanks Daily News Miner
  • Fort Richardson
    • Alaska Post
  • Girdwood
    • Turnagain Times
  • Gustavus
    • Fairweather Reporter
  • Haines
    • Chilkat Valley News
  • Homer
    • Homer News
    • Homer Tribune
  • Juneau
    • Juneau Empire
  • Kenai
    • Peninsula Clarion
  • Ketchikan
    • Ketchikan Daily News
  • Kodiak
    • Kodiak Daily Mirror
  • Kotzebue
    • Arctic Sounder
  • Nome
    • Nome Nugget
  • Petersburg
    • Petersburg Pilot
  • Prince of Wales Island
    • Southeast Alaska's Island News
  • Prince William Sound area
    • Valdez Star
    • Turnagain Times
  • Seward
    • Seward Phoenix Log
  • Sitka
    • Daily Sitka Sentinel
  • Skagway
    • Skagway News
  • Soldotna
    • Peninsula Clarion
  • Talkeetna
    • Talkeetna Times
  • Tok
    • Mukluk News
  • Valdez
    • Valdez Star
  • Wasilla
    • Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman
  • Wrangell
    • Wrangell Sentinel

National & Regional Newspapers

  • Christian Science Monitor
  • New York Times
  • Seattle PI
  • USA Today
  • Wall Street Journal
  • Washington Post

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Newspaper Indexes and Full-text Newspaper Articles Online

Fairbanks area and Juneau Empire Newspaper Indexes accessible globally more information
Fairbanks area indexing coverage varies within 1901-1975 and Juneau Empire indexing covers 1/20/1990-1/30/1999.

News Abstracts state employee accessible
Significant news items in over 50 national and regional newspapers

Newspaper Abstracts in-library use only
Indexing to several major newspapers: 1987-1998

Newspaper Source Plus full-text articles Alaska resident accessible
Full text articles from more than 860 newspapers including the New York Times (from January 1985 to present), Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Washington Post, and The Washington Times. Also includes radio and television transcripts from ABC News, CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), CBS News, CNBC, CNN, FOX News, MSNBC, National Public Radio, PBS, and more

Newspaper Source full-text articles Alaska resident accessible
Most of the content in this database is also in Newspaper Source Plus, so you may want to try that one first. There is some unique content here as well, though.

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