Magazines & Newspapers

A comprehensive collection of hundreds of reliable news sources from the United States and around the world, provided by Newsbank. 

• Content browsable by hundreds of subject headings 
• Browse by source title or geographic location
• All content is full-text searchable and browsable using the Newsbank web interface

(This content is currently being offered on a trial basis.)

• Product comparisons with Consumer Reports’ (CR) comprehensive archive of expert, unbiased product reviews

Past issues of Cadence, a newspaper serving East Grand Rapids. 

Features include:

• Full text articles from 2008 to 2019
• Full-text searching
• text-only content (images are not available)

This resource is available thanks to support from the Titche Family Fund of the Grand Rapids Public Library Foundation.

Complete digital issues of the Grand Rapids Press, the paper of record for Grand Rapids, via Newsbank.

Features include:

• Current issue is available the day of publication
• Complete archive of full text articles starting in 1893
• Full-text searchability
• Includes both print and web editions

This resource is available thanks to support from the Titche Family Fund of the Grand Rapids Public Library Foundation.

To support the Grand Rapids Press digital edition Newsbank subscription, please donate directly to the Grand Rapids Public Library Foundation with the note "Grand Rapids Press subscription" in the comment or memo line.

Online access to full-text articles from Michigan History Magazine from July 2009

• Most recent six months are citation only (there is a 180 day moving embargo).
• Articles are text-only; illustrations and photographs are not included. 
• Access to content is provided through Gale OneFile

• Includes millions of articles from newspapers, newswires, and news magazines. Offers television and radio transcripts and ongoing daily updates from popular news sources. Primary full coverage newspapers are The Washington Post and USA Today.

• Nexis 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.
• Library Express provides access to more than 6,000 news, business, and legal sources. Includes The New York Times, June 1980 – current.

• ProQuest Historical Black Newspapers offer essential primary source content and editorial perspectives of the most distinguished African American newspapers in the U.S.
• Includes Chicago Defender (1909-1975) and Michigan Chronicle (1939-2010).

• Provides coverage from regional business publications for the U.S. and Canada.

The USA Today Collection from Newsbank provides access to current and past issues of this well-known national newspaper. 

• View full page images from 2006 to the present
• Access to full-text content starting in 1987 (text only)
• All content is full-text searchable and browsable using the Newsbank web interface

(This content is currently being offered on a trial basis.)