LibGuides: Offsite/Online Research: Finding Online News Sources

Finding Online News Sources

There are a few ways to search for news items available electronically:

Search via the General Search, which searches almost everything the library has access to: books and media in the library, journal articles in databases the library subscribes to, and images. Enter your search terms in the quick search box, or for more advanced search options click advanced search.
- From your results list look to the left of the page for Format. Select News and your results will now only include news source.
Search for news sources in a newspapers database.

General Search
Search in multiple databases at once. From the search results screen, you can limit the search by source type, date, subject, and other facets.

News sources through the library databases

Search in these databases for authoritative news sources and peer-reviewed articles. Try to consider what biases are apparent in news stories regardless of the source.

Canadian Periodicals Index Quarterly
Indexes nearly 1,200 Canadian periodicals, with full-text access to 550 Canadian and North American publications, including The Globe and Mail and Maclean’s.
Academic Search Complete
A multi-disciplinary database with peer-reviewed journals, books, reports, and periodicals covering humanities, social sciences, arts, medical sciences, and more.
BC Historical Newspapers
Free full-text access to The Province (1894–2010), Times-Colonist (1884–2010), and Vancouver Sun (1912–2010) for residents of British Columbia and Yukon. Relevant to Critical and Cultural Studies and Art History.
Points to the Past
Nearly 200 million pages of digitized primary sources, including historical maps, newspapers, periodicals, and Smithsonian Institution materials. Focused on British Columbia.