Comprehensive coverage back to 1985 is available for one of the leading sources of national and international news exclusively through ProQuest.  The complete text of recent articles is provided in the ASCII format.  Through a complementary database, ProQuest Historical Newspapers, you can access complete page images of the Los Angeles Times from the first issue in 1881 through 1986. 

The Los Angeles Times is one of the largest metropolitan newspapers in the U.S.  It has won numerous journalism awards including 37 Pulitzer prizes, five of which are gold medals for public service.  The Times' editorial department is one of the most impressive in the world and the largest new gathering operation in California, which includes 22 foreign, 11 national, and four state bureaus.

Each issue of every newspaper is indexed thoroughly, so your patrons have access to not only top news stories, but also detailed information on the arts, sports, business, and popular culture.  Even such items as editorials, editorial cartoons, obituaries, and letters to the editor from well-known people are indexed.

For each article cited in the database, an abstract helps the researcher know if the complete text will meet his or her needs.

Accessing the Los Angeles Times

This database is available on the Web through ProQuest®, a premier information access and retrieval system.  With basic and advanced searching, it is suitable for everyone, from novice researchers to experienced information professionals.  Natural language searching, SmartSearch and the Topic Guide are just a few of the features that help users find the exact information they need, quickly and easily.

The ProQuest interface offers additional features for a user-friendly and precise searching experience:

• Narrow searches by date, multiple fields and document types
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