Newspapers – online, in print and microfiche
The newspaper collection at the NM State Library dates back to 1849 and includes hard to find historic papers. The New Mexico Newspapers Research Guide provides details on our holdings or you can email Ask-a-Librarian with a specific request.
Newspaper microfilm can be borrowed through interlibrary loan, depending on the age and condition of the reel. The State Library will loan up to 3 reels of microfilm per request for a period of 30 days for in library use only. Please contact your local library to initiate your request.
Online from the library
Newsbank is an online, searchable database providing access to selected articles from the following three New Mexico newspapers: Albuquerque Journal 1/1/1995-current; The Santa Fe New Mexican 1994 – current; and the Roswell Daily Record 1/2/2002-current.
NewspaperArchive has searchable historic newspapers from around the state, region and country in their original format and layout.
Online from your home
EL Portal provides free 24/7 access to New Mexico residents to selected articles from newspapers around the United States, the world, and New Mexico.
Chronicling America provides fully searchable access to historic newspapers from the entire United States including 48,376 issues from New Mexico spanning 1852-1923.
NM Digital Newspapers, part of UNM’s Center for Southwest Research, contains over 200,000 digitized pages of historic newspapers from around the state.
Obituary Database (Fray Angélico Chávez History Library) is an index of obituaries in New Mexico newspapers from the 1870’s to 31 December 2005. This index is not complete and for the second half of the 20th century it is only a Santa Fe obituary index.
Journal, Magazines & Newsletters
Interested in the cultural history of the state and region? The Southwest Collection contains periodicals on many topics from Adobe Today magazine to the Native Plant Society of New Mexico Newsletter to the New Mexico Historical Review.