Newspapers Worldwide - usually current 90 days or less
PressReaderAlso known as: |PressDisplay||Library PressDisplay||Press Reader| Press|
Provides access to the daily editions of national and international newspapers and magazines.
Over 400+ newspapers. Most updated daily and some backfiles date as far back as the late 1970s. Full text is available for the articles but graphical material (photos, illustrations) are excluded. Classified ads, advertisements, and stock market reports are also excluded. To check the availability of a specific newspaper use the Publications link.
Coverage extends to a large number of newspapers, including the following:
Full text coverage of the |Chicago Tribune| (from 1985), the |Los Angeles Times| (from 1985), the |New York Times| (from 1980), the |Wall Street Journal| (from 1984), and the |Washington Post| (from 1987). Citation/abstract coverage for earlier years. Also known as |US Major Dailies| and |U.S. Major Dailies|.
Over 1000+ newspapers in ProQuest databases (Canadian Newsstream, U.S. Major Dailies, Recent and Historical archives). To check the availability of a specific newspaper use the Publications link.
International. Today's news with archives typically to 1980s. Some archives to 1960s
Factiva also provides American congressional committee hearings, publications of selected U.S. government departments and agencies,The Federal Register and state laws and regulations, publications of U.S. government watchdog organizations, and selected international government publications.
Canada, United States, International. 7000 news sources: Press, transcripts of Television and Radio, Social media. Archives typically to 1990s. 24 hr embargo. Switch between French and English search interface in the upper right hand corner.
Use this link to cross-search over 100 databases. Change the source type to Newspapers. To check the availability of a specific newspaper use the Publications link.
This collection features daily and weekly newspapers from various communities in Alberta from 1885 - 2001. Materials were scanned from microfilm and microfiche.
Peel's Prairie ProvincesThis link opens in a new windowPeel's Prairie Provinces is a resource dedicated to assisting scholars, students, and researchers of all types in their exploration of western Canadian history and the culture of the Canadian prairies. This website contains both an online bibliography of books, pamphlets, and other materials related to the development of the Prairies, as well as a searchable full-text collection of many of these items.
The Center for Research Libraries' holdings of almost 5 million items
include monographs, newspapers, serials, archival materials in microform, and
microform sets. CRL also holds several significant collections for which records
do not appear in the catalogue.
These uncatalogued collections include: dissertations from universities outside of the U.S. and Canada (700,000 titles); U.S. state publications (1.2 million volumes); U.S. and foreign college catalogues (241,000 volumes); textbooks (85,000 volumes); and foreign documents (33,000 volumes). Information on all of these collections is available in the CRL Handbook, available in the Humanities and Social Sciences Reference
area at call number Z 733 C397 1990.
As a member of the Center for Research Libraries, the University of Alberta Library System is able to offer its patrons extended interlibrary loan service from the entire CRL collection, including many items not available for loan from other institutions (e.g. newspapers). The loan period is 4 months, with the option to renew for as long as needed, subject to recall after 2 weeks if requested by another reader.
Provides access to newspapers from Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba.
Titles covered: Medicine Hat News, Baldur Gazette, Beausejour Clipper Weekly, Dauphin Herald, Erickson South Mountain Press, Manitou Western Canadian, Neepawa Banner and Press, Pas Opasquia Times, Portage La Prairie Graphic Leader, Rivers Banner, Roblin Review, Russell Banner, Selkirk Journal, Shoal Lake Crossroads, Steinbach Carillon, Stonewall Argus and Teulon Times, Stonewall Interlake Spectator, Swan Valley Star and Times, Shellbrook Chronicle, Brandon Sun, Lethbridge Herald, Winnipeg Free Press
About Newspapers
Database limitations:
Archives freely available on the internet are NOT included, exception Canada and a few others
Some archives have OCR searching
Using an index is an extra step but may yield better results
Many newspapers are not indexed anywhere
Newspapers.com - check list of titles. You may wish to consider an individual subscription. They do not offer institutional subscriptions
