News Sources - Hawaiʻi CC

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Access World News / Newsbank

Since newspapers have discontinued publishing their backfiles in microfilm, and access to individual newspaper websites is limited to print subscribers, this database provides much improved access for Hawaiʻi CC students, faculty, and staff. Both backfiles and current issues are easily searched and read. In addition, the database includes blogs, broadcast transcripts and newswire services from around the world.

• Access World News / NewsBank (Hawaiʻi CC access)
  Comprehensive newspaper database of more than 8,500 news publications from the US and around the world. Over 31 Hawaiʻi news sources are included, the only access to these backfiles.

Below are the Hawaiʻi titles included in Access World News, with coverage dates:

Global News

• Newspaper Source Plus (EBSCO) (Hawaiʻi CC access)
  More than 860 full-text newspapers, providing more than 35 million full-text articles. In addition, the database features more than 857,000 television and radio news transcripts.
• Newswires (EBSCO) (Hawaiʻi CC access)
  Content from news wire services and aggregators such as Associated Press and United Press International.
• Regional Business News (EBSCO) (Hawaiʻi CC access)
  Indexes over 100 U.S. and Canadian business publications, many with full text.
• TOPICsearch (EBSCO) (Hawaiʻi CC access)
  Contains full text for more than 90,000 articles from nearly 250 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers; EBSCO's unparalleled collection of periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information. Use the drop-down menus for Current Events or Topics to easily locate relevant articles.
• Web News (EBSCO) (Hawaiʻi CC access)
  Near real-time access to thousands of top news feeds from around the globe. This collection includes over 14,000 feeds covering a range of business and general news topics. End users can immediately access the full text of the web content by following the link in the record.

Honolulu Star-Advertiser

The Honolulu Star-Advertiser, formed by the merger of the Honolulu Advertiser and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin in 2010, is the "newspaper of record" for the state of Hawaiʻi. It is available to Hawaiʻi CC students, faculty, and staff in Access World News / Newsbank.

• Hawaii Newspaper Guide from the Hawaii State Public Library System - "You can find articles from Hawaii’s diverse newspapers going back as far as 1929. Digital articles are available online. Indexed articles may be available in print or on microfilm."

Historic Hawaiʻi News

• Bob Krauss Research Index - an index of English-language newspapers from Hawaiʻi, 1840-1944.

• Chronicling America is digitizing historic newspapers, including Hawaiʻi newspapers .

• Hawaiian Historical Society - Helen Chapin's Guide to Newspapers of Hawaiʻi, 1834-2000

• Hawaiian Nupepa Collection - historic newspapers published primarily for a Hawaiian audience between 1834 and 1948, including Ka Lama Hawaiʻi, Ka Hoku O Ka Pakipika, Ka Nonanona, Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, and Ke Alaula. The Library also has them on CD-ROMs.

• Honolulu Record - a labor-oriented newspaper published from 1948-1958.

• Papakilo Database - The Office of Hawaiian Affairs continues to assemble a database of varied collections of data pertaining to historically and culturally significant places, events and documents in Hawai‘i's history.

Newspapers on Microfilm

Mookini Library is no longer receiving any newspaper microfilm reels. We do, however, have a backfile of microfilmed newspapers, most of which are shelved in the Reference area at the back of the 2^nd floor (Main Level). Microfilm reader/printers are in this area as well. In a few cases, the microfilm backfile is the only access to old issues of newspapers, as online access may not go back as far. Below are the titles we still have in microfilm, the date ranges, and the location:

Print Newspapers

Backfiles of print issues are kept on the 3^rd floor (Upper Level) in the Periodicals Room.