How can I access the Wall Street Journal through the Law Library?
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The Wall Street Journal is a national newspaper serving the business community with news covering companies, markets, politics and international events. The Maryland Carey Law community has access to full-text coverage of the the Wall Street Journal via ProQuest and Lexis+.
The Wall Street Journal is available via three ProQuest Databases which can be found in the A-Z Databases list on the Law Library's homepage:
- Now the Maryland Carey Law community can browse or search full-page PDF images of the digitized Wall Street Journal (ProQuest Recent Newspapers) The full-page images of this digitized newspaper provide researchers and scholars with cover-to-cover access to recent newspaper content. Every page is full-text searchable. Coverage extends to within days of the current issue. Coverage: 2008 - recent (a few days' embargo).
- Alerts: Create and schedule email alerts to deliver new documents from the Wall Street Journal as they become available in ProQuest. Tip: Create a My Research account to modify, delete, or view all of your alerts.
- RSS: Your RSS feed will automatically notify you when new issues are available. Learn more Your RSS feed: https://feeds.proquest.com/rss/1729935
- Wall Street Journal (1889 - 2013) (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) The historical Wall Street Journal newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
- Wall Street Journal (1984 - current ) (ProQuest News & Newspapers) The Wall Street Journal's detailed indexing helps users quickly find the news information they need. The ProQuest database meets the needs of many different research environments because of the comprehensive, high-quality indexing. It covers not only complete bibliographic information but also subjects, companies, people, products, and geographic areas. Our highly trained indexers apply the subject terms from a controlled vocabulary of about 8,500 natural-language words and phrases. Each issue of every newspaper is indexed thoroughly, so researchers can easily access not only top news stories but also detailed information on the arts, sports, business, and popular culture. Even such items as editorials, editorial cartoons, and letters to the editor from well-known people are indexed.
he Wall Street Journal ( June 13, 1979 through current) is available via Lexis. Access to Lexis requires your Lexis username and password. According to the Lexis scope note, the Wall Street Journal is available via Lexis from June 13, 1979 through current, and is updated Daily/Monday - Saturday on the same day. NOTE: Access to certain freelance articles and other features within this publication (i.e. photographs, classifieds, etc...) may not be available.
If the Law Library doesn't have an article, it may be available through interlibrary loan.