New Database & LibGuide: America's News


Good news for COM student, faculty, staff and COM Library card holders! You can now access the Galveston County Daily News and Houston Chronicle online, 24/7 on or off campus from our latest database, America's News. Here's how:

  1. From COM Library's home page, choose America's News from the Go Straight to the Good Stuff  box and hit Go (also available from the News tab on Databases by Subject page).
  2. Once in America's News, look and under Search shortcuts and click on Galveston County Daily News, The or Houston Chronicle to browse or search the full text, which is updated daily.

There's more! America's News covers current issues, events, people, government, sports and more with a full text collection of news sources, including Texas and US newspapers, newswires, news blogs, web published newspapers, transcripts from network news, major news magazines and some video.

Highlighted sources include the Chicago Sun-Times, Miami Herald, San Francisco Chronicle, Associated Press, CNN, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Popular Science and video from the Associated Press, Center for Investigative Reporting and Mashable.

Get the basics, how to cite, how to link to articles and more from our How to Use America's News LibGuide. Go to the Guide