For individual newspaper titles, check the CMU Library catalog for the most up-to-date access information. Other libraries may have copies of other newspapers. You can use either search Worldcat or the Center for Research Libraries' (CRL) catalog to see what might be available. CRL has more than 10,000 titles from most countries of the world and every state in the U.S., including over 1,800 U.S. ethnic titles and some of the earliest African American newspapers.
If you want to find names of historic American newspapers for a particular city, and the dates of publication, see:
Sometimes we get a trial of a new database to see if it'll work for our collections. Please use this trial of Newspapers.com before 2/26/23 and let me know what you think!
It's simple, just go to Journals & Newspapers, type in the title of the newspaper and press return! If we have access to it via a database, the database name and dates of coverage will be listed.
Most of these resources are purchased from commercial vendors and need either a Carnegie Mellon University IP address or a CMU user ID and password to access. Due to our contracts and technological issues, we have no way to enable access if you are not currently affiliated with Carnegie Mellon (staff, faculty, or student).
The tab Guides to Online Free Newspapers may help if you are a non-affiliate.