Databases are searchable collections of articles from a variety of journals, usually related to a specific topic or subject area. You can also find articles through the OMNI search bar on the Library's homepage, but the databases listed below are ones that may provide higher relevancy to New Media topics.
You can also browse and search individual journals. This is a great way to keep up with the most recent articles, or discover what topics are curerently being explored in a certain discipline.
Newspapers can provide access to information about exhibitions, contemporary reviews and critiques of exhibitions, films, and books, and interviews with artists, curators, and directors.
Full Text Coverage from 1977 hosted on Proquest Platform. See ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Globe and Mail for older material.
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
Coverage: 1844 - 2020
This database offers access to the full text of several Canadian newspapers from Canada's leading publishers. This full text database includes the complete available electronic backfile for most newspapers, providing full access to the articles, columns, editorials and features published in each. Some backfiles date as far back as the late 1970s.
US Newsstream is part of Global Newsstream. It enables users to search the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format. For academic and public libraries, US Newsstream offers exclusive access to the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and co-exclusive access (with Factiva) to The Wall Street Journal. US Newsstream also offers one of the largest collections of local and regional newspapers, and is cross-searchable on the ProQuest platform.
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This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
Coverage: 1851 - 2020
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
Coverage: 1894 - 2021
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
Coverage: 1877-2007
For background information on your subject, you can consult reference materials (eg dictionaries, directories, handbooks). Some useful reference resources related to New Media are: