LibGuides: UGS 302: Politics, Language and Culture / Liu: Newspapers and Legal Information

Newspaper research

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Nexis Uni
Has Texas sources in addition to national newspapers (which will cover Texas)

Updated continually. Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an interface that offers discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.
Effective January 1, 2018, Nexis Uni™ replaces LexisNexis Academic.
Newspaper Source Plus
Has Austin American Statesman, Dallas Morning News and some other regional papers for Texas.

Newspaper Source Plus provides a full-text digital collection of the world's major news content. It includes millions of articles from newspapers, newswires and news magazines. In addition, it offers television and radio transcripts and ongoing daily updates from popular news sources.
Texas Newspaper Archive
Includes Texas regional newspapers.

Digitized copies and content of Texas newspapers, including The Daily Texan (1913-1979), Galveston Daily News (1865-2013), San Antonio Express (1865-1974), San Antonio Light (1883-1977) and hundreds of other Texas newspapers.
Ethnic NewsWatch
ethnic, minority and native press in the US.

Updated monthly. Provides full-text coverage of newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press in America (some international coverage). Includes more than 400,000 full-text articles from 200 publications.

Find Texas News

Texas and Austin News

Austin American Statesman
The Statesman is our major daily here in Austin and covers Central Texas, including political reporting.
If you find an article online, but hit a paywall, paste the title on the search bar on www.lib.utexas.edu or contact a librarian.
Texas Monthly
Texas politics and lifestyle magazine.
The Texas Observer
Nonprofit political news magazine.
The Texas Tribune
Non-profit, all-digital journalism.
Community Impact
Will prompt you to choose from three metro areas: Dallas, Houston and Austin.

Legal Information

Texas Legislature Online
See text for bills and amendments, proposed and adopted.
Ballotpedia
Historical record of measures that were proposed to be on the ballot and those that made it on the ballot, as well as some reporting on ballots.