Comprehensive coverage back to 1984 is available from the world's leading financial newspaper through ProQuest.  Thorough a complementary database, ProQuest Historical Newspapers, complete page images of The Wall Street Journal from the first issue in 1889 through 1990 are available.

The first issue of The Wall Street Journal was four pages long and sold for two cents.  Today, the paper is considered the preeminent publication for business news and information on financial markets worldwide.

You get complete Wall Street Journal articles through our digital editions.  They are the preferred way to access the publication's information in thousands of college, university, public, and school libraries.

Each issue of every newspaper is indexed thoroughly, so researches can easily access not only top news stories by 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.  For each article cited in the database an abstract helps the researcher know if the complete text will meet his or her needs.

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