Newspapers - Current & Historical - News and Current Affairs (Newspapers)

Current Newspaper Collections

These collections contain current newspaper articles, news wires and radio/TV transcripts. To search for a specific newspaper title, use the Journal Search option in Omni.

Canadian Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Access current Canadian news content with archives as far back as the 1970s, from a variety of news sources. Newspapers including The Globe and Mail and Toronto Star along with newswires and broadcast transcripts in full-text format. Updated daily. Part of the ProQuest Central Collection.
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CBCA Reference & Current Events This link opens in a new window
Canadian subject coverage including politics, business, the arts, sports, and any other kind of Canadian or international news. Indexing and abstracts for approximately 50 newspapers, newswires, transcripts, and magazines. Includes full text for approximately 40 titles.
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CPI.Q (Canadian Periodical Index) This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing for approximately 700 Canadian periodicals with 240 available in full-text. Content includes news, biographies, company profiles and historical information.
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Factiva This link opens in a new window
Covers more than 9,000 full text sources including local, national and international newspapers (including the Globe and Mail), business magazines, trade publications, and newswires as well as company profiles, industry information and stock market quotations and data.
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International Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Part of Proquest Central Collection.
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Lexis Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Provides the full text of news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications. Includes mainly U.S. newspapers, laws, business news journals, company financial information, and industry and market news. Limited Canadian and other international legal research sources.
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ProQuest News & Newsstreams This link opens in a new window
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U.S. Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Full text content for major American news sources including The Wall Street Journal. Part of Proquest Central Collection.
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Historical Newspaper Collections

Canadian newspapers - subscription databases and free websites:

Globe and Mail Canada's Heritage from 1844 This link opens in a new window
Full text archives of the Globe & Mail from 1844 to three years ago.
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Non-Canadian newspapers:

Nineteenth Century US Newspapers This link opens in a new window
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California Digital NewspaperCollection

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Chronicling America provides access to American newspapers from 22 states published between 1860 and 1922. Chronicling America is produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program, a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.
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ICON: International Coalition on Newspapers
This page highlights and links to past, present, and prospective digitization projects of historic newspapers. The focus is primarily on digital conversion efforts, not full-text collections of current news sources

Times Digital Archive 1785-Onwards This link opens in a new window
Online, full-text facsimile of more than 200 years of The Times, one of the most highly regarded resources for eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century news coverage.
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Google News Archive
Archive of newspapers available through the Internet.

Websites

Canadian resources:

News Media Canada ( formerly Canadian Community Newspapers Association)
Daily & community newspapers
Ontario Community Newpapers
PressReader

Non-Canadian resources:

ABYZ Newslinks
Alternative Press Center
Newseum
Compare news reporting on U.S front pages
Newslink
Worldwide resources pertinent to journalism and communications

News sites:

Additional Resources

Canadian Points of View Reference Center This link opens in a new window
Provides access to major Canadian and international newspapers and newswires.
Use the ADVANCED SEARCH to limit to Canadian and/or International newpapers under Document Type
Serials Directory This link opens in a new window
Bibliographical and pricing information for magazines, journals and newspapers.
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Video collections:

CBC Archives This link opens in a new window
Thousands of video and audio clips from current and historical CBC television and radio programming.
CBC Curio This link opens in a new window
Curio.ca includes news reports, documentaries, and archival material, as well as CBC television programs.
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Reports:

State of the News Media
Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism