Databases of Newspaper & Magazine Articles
Finding Newspaper & Magazine Articles
Searchable newspaper databases are listed first, followed by two Canadian databases that include magazine articles (CBCA, CPI.Q).
- PressReader - Worldwide Newspapers
Thousands of newspapers, magazines, and other news sources from 100 countries in 60 different languages. News sources are searchable and current with up to a 60-day backfile at most -- access varies per news source.
July 2019 NOTE: Please visit PressReader directly to select the newspaper or magazine you wish to read. Title level access is not yet available through the catalogue or the eResources search.
Due to publisher restrictions online access to the Globe & Mail newspaper is only available while on-campus.
4 simultaneous users. - Meltwater - Canadian Newspapers & beyond
Meltwater is a news service providing UNB users access to newspapers from New Brunswick. The service also offers other NB provincial news sources in addition to newspapers and sources from around Canada, and news sources from around the world. UNB’s access is primarily aimed towards providing access to New Brunswick news through licensed access, but users are welcome to explore beyond those sources should they desire to do so; users can explore licensed news sources as well as those external sources tracked and searched by the service.
Meltwater access requires users to login by username and password with each visit to the site. Login details are provided on the next screen and will be updated randomly.
Unknown Limit on Simultaneous Users - Globe & Mail (via CPI.Q, 1985- )
Fulltext of articles from Canada's Globe & Mail newspaper, via the Canadian Periodicals Index Quarterly (CPI.Q) database, covering the years from 1985 to the present.
The Globe & Mail is one of Canada's two main national daily newspapers. It provides coverage of local, national, and international news, politics, sports and business, as well as opinion, analysis and commentary. The newspaper is published in Toronto, Ontario, and is owned by Bell Globemedia. Its distribution area includes all of Canada.
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Globe and Mail Canada's Heritage from 1844 contains complete coverage of The Globe and Mail newspaper from 1844 through 2011. Coverage includes major events in Canadian history, images, advertisements, classifieds, cartoons, birth/death notices and the full content of the Report on Business section first published in 1962.
Unlimited simultaneous users. - ProQuest Historical Newspapers ProQuest Historical Newspapers offers full-text and full-image articles for newspapers dating back to the 19th century. As part of the ProQuest Historical Newspapers program, every issue of each title includes the complete paper, cover-to-cover, with full-page and article images in downloadable PDF. Includes The New York Times (1851-2007), The Wall Street Journal (1889-1993), and Washington Post (1877-1994).
Unlimited simultaneous users. - Times Digital Archives (Gale) The Times Digital Archive allows users to search and view online The Times (London) newspaper from 1785-1985.
NOTE: The Times is not published on Sunday, and the The Sunday Times, a distinct newspaper, is not included in this database.
Unlimited simultaneous users. - Canadian Business and Current Affairs (CBCA) Complete (ProQuest) Canadian Business and Current Affairs (CBCA) Complete is the nation's largest and most comprehensive bibliographic full-text reference and current events database. Available through the ProQuest Web interface, CBCA Complete combines full text and indexed content from all four CBCA database subsets (Business, Current Events, Education, and Reference). Subject coverage is comprehensive and information is available from the broadest range of Canadian sources anywhere.
Unlimited simultaneous users. - Canadian Periodicals Index Quarterly (CPI.Q) Indexes over 400 Canadian periodicals (English and French) with full-text and reports from 165 periodicals.
Limited to single-user access.
Publicly-available News Sites
Online News
Google it to find current news stories from around the world. Note that many news sites only provide a week or so of news stories online.
Older stories, in some cases going back to the 17th century, can be found on our Newspaper Collections page, or the databases link above.
You may want to going directly international and national news agencies online. These agencies often provide newspapers and other news sites with stories:
- Associated Press: apnews.com
- Reuters: reuters.com & ca.reuters.com
- The Canadian Press: thecanadianpress.com
Much of our social media provide us news stories which are selected or posted by our online contacts and friends. Note that not only are the selection of those stories subject to our friends’ own biases, but occasionally completely fake news stories also make their way into social media, as they do other places online.
There are many types of news agencies online, both mainstream (often connected to traditional newspapers or TV stations) and more fringe. Keep in mind that all commercial news organizations are in the business of making money. This goal may sometimes conflict with the task of providing balanced facts. Opinionated and biased news has become the norm in many countries, on the political left, right, and centre.
Academic Articles About Journalism & Media
Academic Articles on Journalism & Media
Key Resources
- Communication & Mass Media Complete (CMMC - EBSCO) "CMMC incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association), and Mass media articles index (formerly produced by Pennsylvania State University) along with numerous other journals..."--About the database.
Unlimited simultaneous users. - ProQuest Politics Collection This collection allows users to easily conduct in-depth political science research, discovering more of the most relevant full-text and A&I records. It offers consolidated access for the bibliographic records contained in Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service), and International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) and combines these with the full-text articles in ProQuest Political Science.
The collection also contains full-text dissertations, thousands of working papers, country reports, and government documents, offering an international perspective from leading and emerging academics, policy makers, and think tanks.
Unlimited simultaneous users.
Additional Resources
- Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) Academic Search Premier is a multidisciplinary resource that "provides journal coverage for most academic areas of studies."
Unlimited simultaneous users. - Scopus Scopus, a multidisciplinary online resource, will be invaluable to students and faculty in various fields of study within the sciences, health sciences and the social sciences. Scopus offers full-text linking, abstracting-and-indexing information including peer-reviewed titles from international publishers, Open Access journals, conference proceedings, trade publications, quality web sources.
Unlimited simultaneous users. - Google Scholar Google Scholar searches a subset of the Web that Google has classified as "scholarly literature". They do not publish a list of chosen sites, and they do not state how often sites are checked. Some important sources are not covered at all. Thus, Google Scholar alone should not be relied on for comprehensive research.
Unlimited simultaneous users.
Books
Shelf Browsing
Most works about journalism are assigned call numbers in the PN4000 range, while multidisciplinary books on communication and media studies are found throughout many sections of the library.
Facts & Overviews
Facts About Journalism & Media
Oxford Bibliographies Online has a Communication section, which is especially useful for finding the best core books and other information sources in this multidisciplinary field.
Key Resources
- International Encyclopedia of Communication Online This title is part of the Wiley/Blackwell Reference Online e-book collection available through the Wiley Online Library.
Unlimited simultaneous users. - Companion to Media Studies
"... a comprehensive collection that brings together new writings by some of the most respected canonical and contemporary media studies scholars. The result is a fascinating overview of the theories and methodologies that have produced this most interdisciplinary of field." [from the website]
- Oxford Bibliographies Online "Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO) is an entirely new research tool for the social sciences and humanities. A scholar-curated library of discipline-based subject modules, OBO is designed to help busy researchers find reliable sources of information in half the time by directing them to exactly the right chapter, book, website, archive, or data set they need for their research."
Unlimited simultaneous users.
Additional Resources
- Wiley/Blackwell Reference Online Wiley/Blackwell Reference Online "is a vast new online library giving instant access to the most authoritative and up-to-date scholarship across the humanities and social sciences. With more than 350 reference volumes to be published in Blackwell Reference Online by the end of 2008, it is the largest academic reference collection available online and includes the critically-acclaimed Blackwell Companions and Handbooks, major reference works such as the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management and the Companion to Syntax, and a whole host of other valuable reference materials such as dictionaries, encyclopedias and concise companions."
Unlimited simultaneous users. - International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (2nd Ed.)
see also [HIL-REF H41 .I58 2001 vols. 1-26]Fully revised and updated, the second edition of the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, first published in 2001, offers a source of social and behavioral sciences reference material that is broader and deeper than any other. Available in both print and online editions, it comprises over 3,900 articles, commissioned by 71 Section Editors, and includes 90,000 bibliographic references as well as comprehensive name and subject indexes.
UNB has online access to the 2001 edition as well as owning print volumes of the earlier edition.
Unlimited simultaneous users. - Oxford Reference Multi-part database of the online versions of Oxford University Press texts. Each topical division contains the searchable version of the latest edition of published dictionaries and encyclopedias. Additionally, information about Oxford University Press is provided. Online texts will be updated after new editions of the print monographs are published. Covers the humanities and social sciences.
5 simultaneous users.
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