LibGuides: News and Current Events: Find Articles

Current Affairs newspapers and magazines

Selected newspapers and magazines for research or interest.

Access World News Access World News provides extensive global news coverage at any level: local, state, regional, national and international.
89 newspapers from British Columbia are also included, going back to 2004 (some are earlier). These include the 100 Mile House Free Press, Gulf Islands Driftwood, Saanich News, and Oak Bay News.

Use these databases to find articles about your topic.

Canadian Newsstream
Full text access to newspaper articles, columns, editorials and features, many with extensive backfiles to the 1970s. Content includes the Globe and Mail, National Post, Calgary Herald, Edmonton Journal, Montreal Gazette, Ottawa Citizen, Regina Leader Post, Vancouver Sun, and the Victoria Times Colonist. Updated daily.
Canadian Periodicals Index Quarterly (CPI.Q)
Includes more than 1,300 Canadian periodicals (more than 700 full text), a bilingual interface (English/French), indexing from 1980 forward, full-text articles from 1983 forward, The Globe and Mail, Maclean's weekly magazine, and even travel handbooks from Fodor's for Canadian destinations.

Canadian Reference Centre
Canadian and international periodicals and newspapers such as Macleans, Scientific American, Canadian Geographic, Hockey Digest, Popular Science, Psychology Today, The National Post, Vancouver Sun, USA Today, The Worldpaper, and others. Full-text and updated daily.
Newscan
Updated daily, provides the full text of news stories from a number of French-language newspapers. Includes: L'Actualite (Jan 1992- ), La Croix (Sept 1995- ), Le Devoir (July 1992- ), Le Droit (Jan 1993- ), Le Figaro (Nov 1996- ), Le Monde (Jan 1987-), La Presse (Jan 1993- ), Le Soleil (Jan 1992- ), Voir (Jan 1992- ) (date coverage varies)
CBCA Complete
The largest database of Canadian trade magazines and association newsletters, as well as news media transcripts from CTC and CBC.

Academic Search Complete
Multidisciplinary resource with articles on a range of subjects including current events, health, humanities, sciences, and technology.

Foreign Language News and Newspapers Compiled by MIT Libraries. Includes links to current Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish Language newspapers.
Global Newsbank
Contains information on current issues and events selected from more than 1500 international sources, including translated broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government documents. (1996-)
Internet Public Library Newspapers
(Current) Maintained by the Internet Public Library, this site provides links to U.S. and international newspapers arranged by region and country and alphabetically by title.
Reader's Guide Abstracts
(1983- ) Indexes and abstracts articles from more than 230 popular general-interest magazines published in the US and Canada, covering all subjects and a wide range of current events.

Alternative Press Index
A bibliographic database of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from over 300 international alternative, radical, and left periodicals. Covering theories and practices of socialism and revolution alongside ecology, democracy and anarchism, feminism and organized labor, Indigenous peoples and gays/lesbians, API coverage is both international and interdisciplinary. Coverage begins in 1991.