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Database Trials

Database Trials

We’re currently testing these databases. Please explore and provide us with your valuable feedback.

We’ll decide which databases to purchase based on need, content, quality, ease of use, costs, and other factors. We can’t promise that these databases will be purchased or, if purchased, that we can continue to provide them, but we welcome and value your input!

  • Irish Newspaper Archives

    This database is a trial which expires November 30, 2026. We appreciate your feedback.

    Irish Newspaper Archives includes 260+ titles and approximately 19.5 million pages, 1733 to the present, covering 30 of Ireland's 32 counties. The database also includes the Radical Newspaper Archive - 115 scarce, short-run titles documenting Ireland's labour, suffrage, republican, and revolutionary movements. Many of these papers only ran for a few months and are rarely archived anywhere else.

  • Prensa Libre Digital Archive

    This database is a trial which expires November 5, 2026. We appreciate your feedback.

    Founded in 1951, Prensa Libre is a leading newspaper published in Guatemala City and distributed nationwide. The newspaper was conceived with the purpose of maintaining an independent voice, to provide impartial reporting on local news and bringing to light transgressions of government and public figures. Prensa Libre has covered critical moments in Guatemalan and Latin American history, including political upheaval, assassinations, and coups; peace treaties and elections; natural disasters; economic and technological developments; Guatemalans on the international stage; and much more. Since its founding the newspaper’s popularity has grown and it has earned a reputation as an independent and credible publication, with print circulation topping 800,000 in recent years, and monthly online readership of nearly 5.5 million users.

  • Vanderbilt TV News Archive (Must Create Account Using W&M Email Address)

    This database is a trial which expires November 3, 2026. We appreciate your feedback.

    The Vanderbilt TV News Archive began operations on August 5, 1968 with the mission to record, preserve, and provide research access to news programs broadcast by national television networks in the United States.The core collection of the archive consists of regularly scheduled evening newscasts from ABC (since 1968), CBS (1968), NBC (1968), CNN (1994), Fox News (2004), MSNBC (2024), and NewsMax (2024). Additionally, the Special Reports Collection includes television news coverage of major national and world events, such as political conventions, election coverage, presidential speeches, and military conflicts. The database currently includes over 1.5 million records, including story level abstracts for evening newscasts and catalog records for special reports.Users must create an account using their @wm.edu email address. In order to view a clip, users must add the clip to their basket and checkout, after which the clip will be added to their account and should be viewable within a few minutes if not instantaneously. Users are limited to 2400 minutes of viewing per month.