provides coverage of major U.S., international, and minority interest
newspapers. Also includes full-text coverage of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Wisconsin
State Journal, plus selected coverage of other
regional sources.
offers access to over 6000 newspapers (including foreign sources), magazines,
trade journals, transcripts, company info, business news, legal research,
medical sources and reference works. It is especially strong in news,
business, and legal information. Includes New York Times full-text.
WisInfo Current
day's articles for the following Wisconsin newspapers - the Appleton Post
Crescent, Oshkosh Northwestern, Fond du Lac Reporter, Manitowoc Herald Times
Reporter, Sheboygan Press, Stevens Point Journal, Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune,
Marshfield News-Herald, and Central Wisconsin Sunday.
General metasites: Academic FreedomLinks - a directory
of alternative news sites. Alternative Press Center - publisher
of the Alternative Press Index, leading guide to the alternative press in
the US and around the world. Association of Alternative
Newsweeklies- links to local alternative weekly newspapers around the
US, can narrow by state.
More specific sites: AlterNet - a syndication service of
the alternative press, featuring news stories from alternative newsweeklies,
magazines and web publications. Indymedia - a collective of independent
media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate
coverage. Counterpunch - political news In These Times - the online version
of the magazine; covers social, political, and economic issues. Mother Jones - the online version of
the magazine; focuses on issues of social justice, the environment, politics,
and popular culture. Open Secrets - from the Center for
Responsive Politics, "a non-partisan, non-profit research group based
in Washington, D.C. that tracks money in politics, and its effect on elections
and public policy." Project Censored -
covers news stories that are censored in the main stream press. The Public Eye - "website of political
research associates." Red Pepper - "is a magazine
of information, campaigning and culture. It provides a forum for the left
to debate ideas and action." Znet - the online counterpart to
Z magazine, "an independent political magazine of critical thinking on
political, cultural, social, and economic life in the United States."
Includes a Noam Chomsky archive
