Finding Periodical and Newspaper Articles

Magazines/Periodicals (South Asia)

Guide to Indian periodical literature, 1964- .
LOCATION: Widener: B 425.70 Harvard Depository.
Internet Archive Full Text (Vols. 3, 4, 7-10 only)

Index India (1967- ) indexes Indian language periodical literature.
LOCATION: Widener: Ind 300.80 (1967-93)
LOCATION: Widener: Ind 300.80.2 Index Pt.1: Author index. Pt.2: Subject index. Library has: 3 v. 1967-1976

Index Indiana, 1977- .
LOCATION: Widener: WID-LC AI19.I5 I52x (1977-88)

Index to Indian periodicals: sociology and psychology, 1886-1970, ed. by Nirmal Ruprail, K.G. Tyagi. New Delhi: National Social Science Documentation Centre, Indian Council of Social Science Research, 1987, 905, 533 p.
Widener | WID-LC | HM1.Z99 I53 1987x

A select bibliography of periodical literature on India and Pakistan, 1947-70, by Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema. Islamabad: National Commission on Historical and Cultural Research, 1976-1984 3 v.
Widener | WID-LC | DS407.Z99 C33x

British Periodicals (1681-1920) offers full text for several hundred British periodicals

19th Century UK Periodicals Online, 1800-1900 includes:
Part 2 - "Empire": periodicals on the British empire published in Britain

Newspaper Articles

General

Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1947-1996. The Foreign Broadcast Information Service is a US government agency which translates the text of daily radio and television broadcasts, newspapers and periodicals, government statements, books, and other sources of unrestricted information such as databases and gray literature from non-English sources around the world. Reports with translations are issued for eight world regions daily and cover such topics as military affairs, politics, the environment, societal issues, economics, and science and technology.

General Guide: Guide to Newspapers and Newspaper Indexes.

South Asia

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Times of India (1838-2005)

South Asian Newspapers (World Newspaper Archive) offers full text of 7 newspapers covering various date spans, 1805-1922.

Afghan Media Resource Center, 1987-

InfoLanka News Room (Sri Lanka) 2003-2020

Indian newspaper reports, 1868-1942, from the British Library, London.
-- Consists of weekly typewritten abstracts taken from a wide variety of Indian newspapers, with some extracts. Translated by an official translator. Each report is divided into the following sections: Foreign politics -- Home administration: Police. Working of the courts. Jails. Education. Local self-government and municipal administration. Questions affecting the land. Railways and communications, including canals and irrigation. General (including a wide range of topics) -- Legislative -- Native States -- Prospects of the crops and condition of the people -- Miscellaneous-- pt. 1. Bengal, 1874-1903 -- pt. 2. Bengal, 1904-1916  -- pt. 3. Punjab, Agra, Oudh, Rajputana and Central Provinces, c1868-1896 -- pt. 4. United Provinces, 1897-1937 --pt. 5. Madras, 1876-1921 --pt. 6. Bombay, 1874-1898 -- pt. 7. Bombay, 1901-1921 -- pt. 8. Punjab, 1896-1924; Sind, 1936-1939; Burma, 1938-1942; Bihar and Orissa 1920
In: Area studies: India

China

Chinese Newspapers Collection (1832-1953) offers English-language newspapers published in China.

NewspaperARCHIVE includes the North China Herald (1850-1926)

Old Hong Kong newspapers (Hong Kong Public Libraries). Through early 20th century.

Translations of the Peking Gazette Online (1793-1912; selected material)

Widener has microfilm of several pre-1949 English-language papers published in China.  In the Widener Collection of Newspapers on Microfilm Search, choose Country: China. They are housed in the Newspaper Microfilm Reading Room (Widener 1st floor behind main stairs).