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
The General Search on the library homepage allows you to search in multiple databases at once. From the search results screen, you can limit the search by format, 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 This link opens in a new window
- CPI.Q provides access to Canadian and American periodical literature including full text for selected sections of Canada's national newspaper, The Globe and Mail; Maclean's weekly magazine; Canadian News Facts; and encyclopedic reference materials, such as the Canadian Parliamentary Guide and Canadian Newsmakers. Canadian coverage includes a wide variety of English and French language journals having significant Canadian or regional content. It also includes more that 30 major American titles dealing with North American and international issues. Indexing of nearly 1,200 Canadian periodicals (English and French) with full-text articles from 550 Canadian periodicals. Full-text articles from 1983 to present
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
- A great place to start your search for both popular and scholarly articles on almost any topic. Provides peer-reviewed journals, full-text periodicals, reports, books, and much more.
BC Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
- Free full text access to anyone living in British Columbia or the Yukon to almost 5 million digitized pages of the Province (1894-2010), the Times-Colonist(1884-2010), and the Vancouver Sun (1912-2010).
Points to the Past This link opens in a new window
- A collection of primary sources, made up of nearly 200 million pages of digitized historical content – maps, photos, newspapers, manuscripts, pamphlets, portraits, and much more. A vast range of resources including Eighteenth Century and Nineteenth Century Collections Online, periodicals such as the Economist and the Financial Times, and digitized materials from the Smithsonian Institution.