Finding News Articles: Oregon Indexes

"Fact that is fact every day is not news; it's truth. We report news, not truth." - Linda Ellerbee

This guide provides a list of newspaper indexes and full-text sources for news stories available in the UO Libraries for Oregon newspapers.

You may also be interested in the UO Libraries' guide to Finding Obituaries & Vital Information. For further assistance, please ask a reference librarian.

The Oregonian: A List of Indexes

Lexis Nexis provides full text access to the Oregonian newspaper from 1987 to the present.

1852-1987

Oregon Newspapers Index provides an online index to articles in The Oregonian. The database covers 1852-1987 and contains more than 839,000 records.

1851-1979

Portland Newspaper Index. 1851-1979. MICROFICHE AI 21.O5 1851-1979. Produced from card index prepared by the Multnomah County Library. "Articles are indexed from the Oregonian, 1851-1979, the Oregon Journal, 1902-1979, plus some other local newspapers, periodicals, and miscellaneous monographs. The subjects pertain to Oregon, Portland, and the Northwest."

1980-1984

Portland Newspaper Index, 1980-1984. MICROFICHE AI 21.O5 1980-1984. Continuation of Portland Newspaper Index. Indexes articles from:

Oregonian

Oregon Journal

Willamette Week

Business Journal

Eugene Newspapers: A List of Indexes

November 2001-Present

Register-Guard Archive. You can search the archives of staff-written stories from November 2001 to a week ago. The archive retrieves citations; it offers the full text of articles for a fee. You can avoid the fee by using our microfilm collection of the Register-Guard. For the full text of articles from the most recent seven days, search the Register-Guard home page.

1963-2004

Register-Guard Index from the Oregon Newspapers Index. This index contains more than 30,000 records.

1855-1870

Eugene Newspaper Index. 20 fiches. MICROFICHE AI 21 .E96. Compiled by George Ann Clingan and Patty Rhay at the Lane Community College Library. The first part, pages 1-22, is the list of newpapers indexed, the list of abbreviations, and the subject authority. The second part, pages 23-391, is the Biography section. The third part, pages 548-1051, is the General News section. Papers indexed: Democratic Herald, Democratic Register, Eugene City News, Eugene City Review, Eugene City Guard, Pacific Journal, and People's Press.

2000-Present

Oregon Daily Emerald index to the University of Oregon student newspaper.

1900-1979

Daily Emerald Index to the campus newspaper of the University of Oregon. This index is part of the Oregon Newspapers Index and contains more than 102,000 records.

2000-Present

Eugene Weekly , Eugene's alternative weekly newspaper. Search or browse issues by keyword or date.

Indexes to Other Oregon Newspaper Stories

Factiva indexes a number of Oregon newspapers. Coverage varies. These newspapers include:

Business Journal of Portland
Columbian (Vancouver, WA)
Dalles Chronicle
Grants Pass Daily Courier
Klamath Falls Herald & News
Mail Tribune (Medford)
News-Review (Roseburg)
Northwest Construction
Oregon Business
Oregonian (Portland)
Pacific Builder and Engineer
Register-Guard (Eugene)
Statesman Journal (Salem)
World (Coos Bay)

In the Factiva search box, enter sn= and the name of the newspaper, and then a keyword. Example: sn=Columbian and golf course

Oregon Index

A selective index to Oregon newspapers, and to Oregon items in selected other publications. Oregon Index coverage varies from paper to paper. Newspapers indexed include:

Coos Bay World, Jan 1996 - May 1996
Corvallis Gazette Times, 1995 - 1999
Daily Astorian, 1998-1990
Eugene Register-Guard, 1988 - 2002
Klamath Falls Herald & News, 1996
LaGrande Observer, 1995 - 2004
Lake Oswego Review, 1996 - 2004
Portland Oregonian, Jan 1985-Dec 1992
Salem Statesman Journal, Jan 1987 - Sept 2002
Tigard Times, 1996 - 2003
West Linn Tidings, 1998 - 2004
Willamette Week, 1974 - 1997
Wilsonville Spokesman, 1995 - 2004

East Oregonian Index [Pendelton], 1976-1983

KNIGHT AI 21 .E753a

Oregon Journal index, 1902-1908

KNIGHT AI 21.O78

Oregon Spectator Index, 1846-1854

OR.COLL. AI 21 .O7

Maintained by: Paul Frantz, pfrantz@uoregon.edu
Last Modified: 01/18/2010