New Jersey Research Resources and Sources
General
- Rutgers Library Reseach Guide on NJ State and Local Government
- Rutgers Library Research Guide on NJ
- American Antiquarian Society Digitized Materials
- Rutgers University Library-Special Collections
- New Jersey Historical Commission
- Genealogical Society of New Jersey
- New Jersey Historical Society
- State Legislature Home Page
- New Jersey State Library
- New Jersey State Archives
- New Jersey Online
- Monmouth County Historical Association
- Camden County Historical Society
- New Jersey Women’s Project
- Electronic New Jersey
- Rutgers University Cartography Department
- New Jersey History Links
- NJ Law Resources at Rutgers Law Library
- List of NJ Historical Societies
- List of NJ Local Archives
- State of New Jersey Web Page
- NJ Demographic History Databases
- NJ Laws
- NJ Department of Labor and Workforce Development-Labor Market Information
Latina/os in New Jersey
- El Diario/La Prensa Digital from 1992, via Proquest
- Hispanic American Newspapers Collection (restricted access, not at RU)
- Cuban Exile Periodicals Collection via Proquest and Cuban Heritage Collection at University of Miami
- New Jersey Hispanic Research and Information Center
- Alternative Press Index
- Philadelphia Enquirer
- New York Times Historical via Proquest
- Ethnic NewsWatch
- Factiva
Census Reports in PDF
NJ Newspaper Research
- Digitized Local Newspapers, pre-1940s
- The New Jersey Information Center at the Newark Public Library has the card file Cummings Index to the Star-Ledger from 1971 to 1996, as well as locally compiled Newark News Indexes, 1916-1970.
- Newark Public Library New Jersey Newspaper & Periodical Index includes the Cummings Index to the Star-Ledger from 1971 to about mid-1979.
- Newark Public Library Newspaper Holdings in Microfilm
- Charles Cummings New Jersey Information Center
- Newark Public Library Newspaper Digitalization Project
- Public Notices in the newspaper of the State
- Google News Digitized Newspapers
- New Jersey Newspapers via Newspapers.com (Ancestry–NYPL Access)
- Visit this link for an updated list of digital access to NJ Newspapers. Find the county on the right or the city in the map.The links will take you in different directions.
- Lists of NJ Newspapers
- Proquest Recent newspapers Northeast Collections
- Access World News [Rutgers Restricted]
- Complete searchable full-text content of world news as well as local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Includes a variety of New Jersey newspapers, as well as the Philadelphia Inquirer.
- CentralJersey.com
- Links to community newspapers, such as the Sentinel and the Suburban, serving Middlesex, Monmouth, and Ocean counties.
- Daily Targum
- HeadlineSpot – New Jersey News
- My central jersey
- NewsLink: New Jersey Newspapers
- NJ.com
New Jersey and other newspapers in Rutgers collections may be found by searching the Library Catalog under the title of the newspaper.
The basic directory of New Jersey newspapers is the Directory of New Jersey Newspapers, 1765-1970, edited by William C. Wright and Paul A. Stellhorn (Trenton, NJ: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1977). Available? ALEXANDER, CAMDEN, DANA, DOUGLSS, CARR, SPCOL/UA REF Z 6952 .N54 D57)
Many New Jersey newspapers are also held at Special Collections and University Archives; consult their finding aids on-site to locate specific titles and holdings.
Full-text access to the Newark Star-Ledger is available from 1996 to the present on Access World News and on Factiva The Dana Library in Rutgers-Newark has the Newark Star-Ledger on microfilm going back to 1980; microfilm reels from August 1, 1945 to December 2003 are also available from the Alexander Library in Rutgers-New Brunswick.
NPL’s New Jersey Information Center also maintains an Inventory of New Jersey Newspapers on Microfilm
Today’s issue, and selected South Jersey stories from the last fourteen days, of the Camden Courier-Post are available online for browsing. The Courier-Post Archive provides online access to news articles going back to 1876. The Robeson Library in Rutgers-Camden has the Courier-Post (various titles) on microfilm back to 1909; the Camden County Historical Society has the Courier-Post from 1892 to 1959 on microfilm.
Selected articles from the Courier-Post about the city of Camden are also indexed in CamdenBase
Other significant New Jersey papers are available as follows:
- Asbury Park Press
- January 1, 2000- . $2.95 per article.
- Home News Tribune (New Brunswick)
- January 1, 1999- . $3.95 per article.
- The Record (Bergen)
- 1993- . $2.95 per article.
- [Full-text also available back to 1985 via Access World News
- Archive available online.
- The Times (Trenton)
- 1993- . $2.95 per article.
- [Full-text also available back to 3/16/1993 via Access World News
- Access World News
You can search for the full text of articles in the following New Jersey business papers:
- Mercer Business. 4/1985-
- New Jersey Business. 12/1990-
- 9/1995-
Atlantic County Digitized Newspapers Among others, includes South Jersey Republican 1863-1923; the Mays Landing Record 1877-1906; the Atlantic County Record 1908-1917; and the South Jersey Star 1917-1923
The Bayonne Herald -1915. [Hudson County].
[Bayshore] Independent March 1972 to March 2000. [Monmouth County]
Camden Democrat . 1859-1908. [Camden County]
Cranbury Press 1886-2018 [Middlesex County]
Cranford Chronicle 1894-2005 [Union County]
Daily True American . Trenton, 1880-1908. Trenton True American . 1908-1912. Evening True American . 1912-1913. [Mercer County].
Elizabeth Daily Journal 1872-1915. [Union County]
Franklin Township Newspaper Archives . Includes The Record [1948-1958]; the Franklin News [1954-1958]; and the Franklin News-Record[1958-1978] [Somerset County]
Matawan Journal 1870-1973; and the Matawan Independent 1972-2000 [Monmouth County]
The The Millburn Township Historical Archives include The Budget [1886]; The Short-Hills News Item [1889-1891]; and The Item of Millburn and Short Hills [1889-1891, 1935-1939, and 1941-1950]. [Essex County]
New Jersey Courier. December 1852-December 1922. [Ocean County]
Newspaper Archives of New Brunswick New Brunswick Daily Times 1871-1916; and the Daily Home News 1887, 1889, 1903-1906 [scattered issues]. [Middlesex County]
Newark Sunday Call . June 1881 to July 1883. [Essex County]
Ocean City Public Library Newspaper Archives . April 1893 to August 1993, includes issues from the: Cape May County Gazette, Daily Reporter, Ocean City Sentinel, The Daily Sentinel, News, et al, Ocean City Daily Reporter, Ocean City Ledger, Ocean City Sentinel Ledger. One issue a month digitized. The Sentinel Ledger is available September 1993-February 1998; Ocean City Sentinel March 1998-December 2011. [Due to copyright restrictions, these are no longer available remotely and can only be accessed within the Ocean City Free Public Library.]
Historical Society of Ocean Grove newspaper collection
Ocean Grove Times, 1875-1974, plus selected issues of the Asbury Park Press and Asbury Park Journal late 1800s and early 1900s.Red Bank Register Archive The Red Bank Register, 1878-1964, and the Daily Register, 1964-1991. [Monmouth County]
The Rockaway Township Library has digitized The Iron Era [Dover, Morris County] from 1872 to 1905, and The Rockaway Record [Rockaway, Morris County] from 1900 (scattered issues back to 1890) to 1936.
Scotch-Plains-Fanwood Times (weekly) 1959-2008; and the Union County Local Source [weekly] 2008-present.
South Amboy Citizen July 2, 1910 through December 29, 2000. [Middlesex County]
Tuckerton Beacon. Only 1917 to 1922 available for remote use; online access to 1917 to 1987 available at all Ocean County library locations. [Ocean County]
Westfield Historical Newspapers Includes among others, Westfield Leader 1907-2015; Westfield Record Press 1990-2007; and the Union County Standard 1891-1915. Four or Five issues per month digitized. [Union County]
Woodbridge Township Historic Newspapers
Among others, includes Carteret Press 1925-1965; Fords Beacon 1936-1961; Independent Leader 1940-1965; Woodbridge Independent 1919-1938; and the Woodbridge Leader 1926-1939. [Middlesex County]