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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 100 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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Provides access to full-text articles from Canadian magazines, newspapers, newswires (including La Presse Canadienne) and reference books (Canadian Global Almanac, Gage Canadian Dictionary, Gage Canadian Thesaurus), as well as US and UK periodicals and international publications.
This resource will be available until August 21, 2010.

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Covers Canadian content in all subject areas. Both English and French periodicals are indexed in full text from 1983 and retrospective citations from 1977. Includes selected full text of the Globe and Mail (1985 to present).
This resource will be available until July 31, 2010.

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Find out which magazines and newspapers you can access online through VPL's subscription databases. This resource is currently under construction - watch for improvements and additions daily.

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eLibrary Canada
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This resource is no longer available. Try our list of databases containing journal and magazine articles.

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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Provides in-depth and full-text Canadian news and business information, including public and private companies.
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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 2003. Includes every article, image, cartoon, advertisement, classified advertisement, birth and death notice published in the Globe and Mail.

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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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Access full-text articles from 1980 to today. Book Review and the Magazine supplements are included. Note: does not include classified obituaries and advertisements, stock tables, or graphics.
This resource will be available until May 31, 2010.

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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 55 countries, before they appear on the newsstands. Carries today's paper plus a 60 day archive.
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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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Times Digital Archive
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This resource is no longer available. Try our list of databases containing newspaper articles or visit the Times online for current articles from the Times (London).
This resource will be available until December 15, 2009.

 

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