Newspaper and Magazine Databases

Boston Globe

Includes full-text coverage of The Boston Globe from 1980-present. Find local, regional and national news, as well as legal notices and obituaries. All articles include formatted citations, and can be instantly translated into a dozen languages, including Arabic, French, Polish, Spanish, and Russian.

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (1860-1922)

This site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1860-1922 in select states and directory information about American newspapers (dates, places and types of publication) published between 1690-present. The site intends to “… create a national, digital resource of historically significant newspapers from all the states and U.S. territories published between 1836 and 1922.”

Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

Google News and Google News Archive

Google News is a computer-generated news site that aggregates headlines from news sources worldwide, groups similar stories together and displays them according to each reader's personalized interests.

Google News Archive includes scans of actual newspapers dating back 200 years. Use the "Snipping Tool" (in the Windows Start Menu) to save images.

Massachusetts Newspapers and Magazines

Access 50 full-text magazines and newspapers, all local to Massachusetts. Includes news publications like the Boston Globe, the Sun (Lowell), Cape Cod Times, as well as history journals of local interest like Journal of American History and Reviews in American History. Also includes several law journals, like Boston University Public Interest Law Journal, and the Massachusetts Law Review. All articles include formatted citations.

New York Times 1 month ago - Today

Includes Replica Edition access, similar to a PDF version of the complete paper. Ability to browse, print and e-mail articles. Please see or email the librarian for the password.

New York Times 1985 - 1 week ago

Includes full-text access to The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review and The New York Times Magazine from 1985 - present. Includes indexing only of articles from 1965-1985. All articles include formatted citations.

Popular Magazines

Aimed at the general public, this collection includes 1,000 popular magazines, and over 40 million articles. Titles inclule Cosmopolitan, The New Yorker, Popular Science, Ebony, Backpacker, Men's Health, Vogue and Vanity Fair. All articles may be saved, printed or emailed, and all articles include formatted citations.

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