• For general purpose searching:
  

• For newspaper articles:
  
  The News Index ( contains CURRENT articles ONLY. It is not an archive.)
  Newslink ( links to U.S. Newspapers and other media; some dead links))
  The Associated Press Search Site (fee to retrieve articles, but searching is free)
  
  Try any one of the following newspapers, all of which allow free access to their archives. (The links below come from the Special Libraries Association  News Division Directory of U.S. Newspapers.)
  
  The Augusta (Georgia) Chronicle Search Site 
  Cincinnati Enquirer and Post search site  
  Columbus Dispatch Web archive (past 7 days of staff written stories are free)
  Las Vegas Review-Journal   (archive)
  The Salt Lake City Deseret archive
  The San Francisco Chronicle and San Francisco Examiner: search page
  The Seattle Times archive
  
  

• For online magazine articles:

American Journalism Review [AJR] 
(check out the list of links to magazines and other media 
in the menu on the left hand side of the AJR home page.)

Find Articles.com (a good starting place for magazine articles)

SPECIFIC MAGAZINES: Of the first seven magazines listed below, The National Review and The Weekly Standard fall to the right of center politically and socially, while Mother Jones, Utne, and Village Voice to the left. The others are more or less in the middle.

Atlantic Monthly (archive)
Mother Jones
The National Review (fee for archive)
Rolling Stone
Time Magazine (fee for archive)
US News and World Report (fee for archive)
Utne Reader
Village Voice
The Weekly Standard Archive (some articles free; some articles accessible only to subscribers)

•  online articles from academic journals
  
  Univ. Of Houston Libraries' list of scholarly journals (list of journals that offer free web access without registration)
  New Assessment Early Childhood Resources (list of journals on the subject of early childhood)
  Martin Ryder's electronic journals list (journals related to Learning Technologies, Communications and Culture, with links to other journal lists)
  
  

• For online books:
  
  Net Library (source for e-books; you need to register, but it's easy)
  
  

• Miscellaneous:
  
  Firstgov.org  Gateway to many U.S. government sites (federal and state)
  National Public Radio (some material available only in audio format)
  YSU Maag Library Internet Searching Help Page (lots of links)

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