Sports Journalism
The TMU Library provides access to a large number of sources for local, national, and international print journalism, including newspapers, weekly news magazines, and monthly magazines, all of which are good sources for sports news and information. You can also use some of the same databases to search for broadcast transcripts.
Search for Journalism Using Omni
You can also use the Omni search tool on the library home page to filter your results to other types of publications, including newspaper articles, magazine articles, scholarly journals, or books. To limit your search results to only newspaper articles and news items, click the three dots at the top of the page and select "Newspaper Search."
For more targeted or advanced newspaper searches, consider using one of our specialized newspaper databases.
Sports and Media Journalism
- Sports Illustrated
Through the Library, Sports Illustrated is available with full text from 1984 to present, with with selective abstracting and indexing coverage back to 1900. Sports Illustrated is also publicly available from from 1954 to approximately one year ago, along with writer biographies and photography collections. Sports Illustrated is also available from the Internet Archive.
- Playback This link opens in a new windowPlayback is Canada’s production, broadcasting and interactive media destination, offering an intimate view of industry events, trends, and innovations.
Search for Specific Regional and Sports Coverage
You can use Factiva to target your searching by date range, sporting event, or region.
For example, from the search page in Factiva, open the "Subject" menu. Under "Select Subject Category," you can either click on the word "Sports" to select all sports related subjects, or you can click on the plus symbol to open the menu and select a specific sport.
You can use the "Region" menu to select "North America," or click on the plus symbol to select Canada or Ontario.
In the image to the right, "Lacrosse" has been selected from the "Subject" menu and "Canada" has been selected from the "Region" menu. Clicking search will bring up all articles published about lacrosse in Canada in the last three months.
Newspaper Databases
- Canadian Newsstream This link opens in a new window
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.
- Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database (CBCA) This link opens in a new windowThis database, with 600 full text titles, is the most comprehensive Canadian reference collection available today. Accessible to readers and researchers at every level, CBCA Complete features a highly-respected, diversified mix of publications, including scholarly journals, trade publications, dissertations, books, newspapers and magazines.
- Factiva This link opens in a new windowFactiva, a Dow Jones & Reuters Company, provides global content with multiple language interfaces and multilingual content covering nearly 8,000 sources. Factiva provides access to global and local newspapers, magazines, industry-specific journals and newsletters, newswires, media programs, and websites. Company Research Tools Perform company screening on a collection of nearly 24,000 global companies using 26 criteria. Current quotes and market data are available. Instrument types supported include global stocks, market indices, mutual funds and corporate bonds.
- Nexis Uni This link opens in a new windowNexis Uni® features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.
- US Newsstream This link opens in a new window
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.
Specific Newspaper Databases
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Globe and Mail This link opens in a new window
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 - 2021 - ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Times This link opens in a new window
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 - 2021 - ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Toronto Star This link opens in a new window
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 - 2022 - ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new window
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: 1889 - 2013 - Times Digital Archive, 1785-2019 This link opens in a new window
Researchers can search through the complete digital edition of The Times (London), using keyword searching and hit-term highlighting to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. The entire newspaper is available, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to aid searching.