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Newspaper Articles

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All In One allows you to search a collection of up to 50 popular electronic resources and the Library Catalogue at one time.
You may also wish to search individually one of our 100+ databases many of which are not searched via All In One.

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Index to historical information about BC in books, magazines and newspapers in the VPL collection

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Canadian Business & Current Affairs offers access to its Business (general and specialized), Current Events (newspapers and other media transcripts) and Reference (popular and academic journals) databases. Full-text retrospective coverage to 1993, and citations to 1982. Also now includes selected images.

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Full text of over 300 BC and major Canadian daily newspapers. Titles include the Vancouver Sun, Province, Vancouver Courier, West Ender, Victoria Times-Colonist, as well as the National Post, Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Ottawa Citizen, and Calgary Herald. Content for some titles starts as far back as 1985. Some titles are not available for 2 days after publication.

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Find out which magazines and newspapers you can access online through VPL's subscription databases.

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InfoAction

Over 9,000 international media sources; current and historical full-text articles from newspapers, leading business magazines, trade publications, and newswires.

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Contains articles dating back to 1998 from more than 400 magazines and journals. Find Articles at BNET.com covers a range of topics, both popular and scholarly, including business, health, society, entertainment, sports and more. Searchable by keyword or category.

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Access the full-image of the newspaper from 1844 to 2007. Includes every article, image, cartoon, advertisement, classified advertisement, birth and death notice published in the Globe and Mail.

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InfoAction
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Full-text current and historical Canadian news and information; also includes corporate information.

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LexisNexis
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Canadian, U.S. and international media, legal, and government full-text information; current and historical.

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Available via the Internet

A searchable online index of the headings found on individual folders of clippings in our Newspaper Clippings Collection. The focus of the collection is on local and British Columbia issues. The majority of files start in the 1960's with articles taken from the Vancouver Sun and Province and various local community newspapers. It also searches the headings from the Pacific Press Clippings Collection microfiche. Both the clipping files and the Pacific Press microfiche are available on level 5 of the central library

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Explores controversial subjects by including materials representing both sides of an issue. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to Web sites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.
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Delivers full-page images of newspapers from 92 countries, before they appear on the newsstands. Carries today's paper including archives up to 60 days.
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Provides full text of business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

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Due to provincial funding cuts, we have cancelled several electronic resources. Can’t find what you need? Ask a Librarian or try our list of alternate resources.

Electronic resources are restricted by license agreements to Vancouver Public Library card holders and to on-site users for purposes of research and private study. Commercial use and systematic downloading, copying or distributing of information are expressly prohibited. Users are individually responsible for compliance with these terms.

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