News, Magazines and Periodicals

This database focuses on arts periodicals covering Canada and Canadian issues. This database is a subset of CBCA Complete.

Subject coverage includes:

•     Canadian music
•     Canadian theatre
•     Canadian film
•     Canadian TV
•     Canadian dance
•     Canadian architecture
•     Canadian art
•     Canadian design
   

News and current affairs in Canadian health and medicine. This database is a subset of CBCA Complete.

Subject coverage:

• Medical Science
• Nursing
• Allied Health
• Public Health
• Pharmacology

Broke key stories of the 20th century such as the thalidomide scandal, Kim Philby as a Soviet double-agent, and the Israeli nuclear programme. 19th-century coverage covers Victorian literature, theatre, and everyday life, with highlights including; a review of the opening night of Macbeth in December 1888, starring Ellen Terry in her famous green beetlewing dress; a letter from Charles Dickens, mediating a dispute between his friend Edmund Yates and William Makepiece Thackeray; and the regular Freemasonry column, outlining the activities at various lodges.

Covering 180 years and nearly 600,000 pages the Sunday Times Magazine was the first newspaper magazine to hit the stands in February 1962 when it made its first appearance inside The Sunday Times. This magazine is entirely contained within the archive.

Eureka, formerly known as Newscan, offers full-text access to more than 8,000 general and specialized news sources covering a variety of fields, including politics, economy, current world issues, environment, health, and arts and culture. Includes newspapers as well as transcripts of television and radio news programs including The National, Saturday Report, Canada AM and CTV News.

We recommend using this research guide from St. Francis Xavier University Library to learn how to use Eureka.

Every page as published from over 200 years of the London newspaper. Coverage runs from 1785-2006 and covers major international historical events from the French Revolution to the Falkland War.

Bibliography of over 50,000 historical publications in 756 subjects.

Covering the 19^th century, the Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals: 1800-1900 provides access to a bibliography of 50,000 publications, 48,000 personal names, and 756 subjects including chemistry, dialect, and more. This resources does not provide access to full-text.

Full-text business coverage for all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

Regional Business News is a database that provides access to full-text coverage of more than 80 regional business publications—journals, newspapers, and newswires—covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

• Canadian Newsstream
• Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers titles, including:
  • Globe and Mail (1844 - 2017)
  • Chicago Defender (1910-1975)
  • Detroit Free Press (1831-1922)
  • Hartford Courant (1764-1985)
  • The New York Times (1851-2007)
  • The Wall Street Journal (1889-1993)
  • The Washington Post (1877-1994)

Digital collections of resources pertaining to history, business, and scientific heritage in Ontario.

Our Ontario is a non-profit organization offering services and platforms that enable digital creation and sharing of community stories and history online to a global audience. In partnership with many Ontario cultural and heritage organizations including museums, archives, libraries, historical societies, community groups, government agencies, and private collections, this resource contains photographs, maps, videos, audio recordings, government documents, and other media pertaining to Ontario’s history, business, and scientific heritage.

 

Searchable historical Ontario newspapers from 1810 onward.

This resource brings together over 200 years of newspaper titles throughout South Western Ontario from as early as 1810. This collection contains over 100,000 complete issues of 52 community newspapers in both French and English. Originally scanned from microfilm, the content in this collection is fully searchable via Optimal Character Recognition (OCR) technology.