Full Text Newspaper Articles Online

Key Facts

VPL Databases

An excellent way to access newspaper articles on the web is through the full-text article databases VPL pays for and makes accessible over the Internet. To access them from home, you’ll need your library card – you’ll need to enter the barcode and your PIN.

Go to VPL homepage and underneath the “Find Books, DVDs & More” heading , click on “Newspapers, Articles, Encyclopedias & More.” Scroll down to “Newspapers & Mass Media” and click on “Newspapers & Magazines.”

Canadian Newsstand: Full text of over 100 BC and major Canadian daily newspapers, including the Vancouver Sun, Province, Vancouver Courier, West Ender, Victoria Times-Colonist, as well as the Toronto Star, the National Post, and the Globe and Mail.
CPI.Q. (Canadian Periodical Index): Indexing of nearly 1,200 Canadian periodicals (English and French), including 195 Canadian newspapers. 550 of the periodicals are full-text.
Globe and Mail - Canada's Heritage from 1844: Scanned version of the Globe and Mail newspaper from its inception in June 1844 to December 2003.
PressDisplay: Same day full-image versions of 500 newspapers from 70 countries, in 37 languages. Many have a 60-day archive.
New York Times: Full-text articles from the New York Times newspaper (the late edition, East Coast) from January 1980 on. Updated daily. Includes the NYT Book Review from 1997.

Vancouver Metropolitan Area Online Newspapers

At the VPL web site, go to “Research Guides & Suggestions by Topic", click on “Newspapers & Mass Media” and scroll down to “Vancouver Area Newspapers”.

Online Newspapers - Directories

An excellent way to find the website of a newspaper is to use an online newspaper directory. For a list of directories to online newspapers go to go to “Research Guides & Suggestions by Topic", click on “Newspapers & Mass Media” and find them listed under “Related Link Lists.”

Or go directly to the lists:

Newspaper Directories: Canadian

Newspaper Directories: International

Newspaper Directories: General

News Search Engines

News search engines search the Internet automatically as frequently as every 15 minutes, much more frequently than general search engines like Google.

For a list of news search engines go to “Research Guides & Suggestions by Topic", click on “Newspapers & Mass Media” and in the “Related Link Lists” section, click on "News Search Engines".

Digitized Newspapers

Digitized newspapers combine the look of newspapers in print, the deep archive of newspapers on microfilm and the searchability and browsability of newspaper article databases.

For a list of links to digitized newspapers web sites, go to the library homepageand under “Find Books, DVDs and More” click on “Research Guides & Suggestions by Topic", click on “Newspapers & Mass Media". In the “Related Link Lists” section, look for headings “Digitized Newspapers.”

Related Newspapers, Articles, Encyclopedias & More

Selected online newspapers, journals, magazines, audiobooks, indexes, and other resources providing more information. Have your library card ready, as you may need to log in.

Canadian Newsstand

CPI.Q. (Canadian Periodical Index)

Globe and Mail Canada's Heritage from 1844

New York Times

PressDisplay

Last updated on December 31, 2009