Some vendors prohibit you from feeding data/text from library resources into an AI program (e.g. ChatGPT). If you want to do this, Ask Us so we can check the license terms.
If you're a Stanford GSB researcher who needs access to lots of news articles for a text analysis or other large-scale quantitative project, please contact us so we can explore your options.
We've listed some sources Stanford researchers have access to below, but this list is not exhaustive.
These resources are generally meant for faculty or PhD research. If you're an undergraduate or masters student, please contact your primary campus library with any questions.
From ProQuest, TDM Studio is a text and data mining solution for research, teaching, and learning.
Includes access to current and historical newspapers. Popular titles include the WSJ and NYT, but many others are also available. Coverage is slightly better for national papers in the US and around the world compared to local news.
Newsbank
Based on Access World News, which tends to have good local newspaper coverage.
There will be a fee for each research project; GSB members can contact us for more information.
Provided by Stanford Libraries and provides access to the News and Legal (US Federal and State) content within NexisUni.
PeakMetrics Data
For a per-project fee, Stanford researchers can work with PeakMetrics to receive a custom dataset covering freely available (e.g. non-paywalled) online news and blog articles from 2019-2024. The available data provides information at an article or post-level, including the text of the mention, the authors and source, and a sentiment subjectivity and polarity measure.
Below are a few examples of popular newspapers or magazines that are available through either the GSB Library or Stanford University Libraries for text and data mining projects. Most of them have a mix of xml and tif formats. If you're a GSB researcher looking for another publication or are interested in using them, please Ask Us.
New York Times - article text and metadata from around 3 million articles published by the NYT from 1980-2020
Washington Post - content from 1977 that can be used for text analysis projects
