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News, Current Events & Pro/Con Issues: Newspapers & Magazines

News Websites & Replicas

  • Unlimited access from school wi-fi network.
  • Some access to historic articles. Full access 1851-2014 is available through Ridgewood Public Library with card #.
  • Get back articles from Bergen County's newspaper The Record. HTML format, full-text from 1998 - present.
  • Unlimited access from school wifi network through the Secondary School Programme. 
  • Access full text through eLibary database.
  • Daily edition in the "replica" version: a digital image of printed paper page by page.  See LLC staff for subscription info.
  • Washington Post no longer supports institutional subscriptions to its website.

Newspaper Databases

International & Domestic Newspaper Database

  • Search back issues for full-text articles of more than 860 newspapers including  San Francisco Chronicle, The Times (UK), The Washington Post, The Washington Times (DC), The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Seattle Times, etc.
  • Also a source for television and radio news transcripts, including: ABC News (American Broadcasting Company), ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), CBS News, CNBC, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, MSNBC, National Public Radio, PBS, and more.

New York Times Historical Newspapers (Proquest)

This database is available through Ridgewood Public Library. Password: your public library card #

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  • Enter your search terms: use both boxes
  • Don't enter too many words; try 2 or 3 on each line
  • Keep phrases together with quotation marks, ex: "space shuttle"
  • Use Date and Document Type to limit search results

Magazine Articles: Back Issues Online

Articles from popular magazines and journals.

The most recent issues may not be available for 1-3 months from publication date.

See a sample of titles available below.

News

  • Atlantic
  • Maclean's
  • Nation
  • New Yorker
  • Newsweek Global
  • Science News
  • Time
  • U.S. News - The Civic Report
  • World & I
  • U.S. News - The Report

Political Commentary & Opinion

  • Commentary
  • Commonweal
  • Congressional Digest
  • Mother Jones
  • Nation
  • National Review
  • New Republic
  • New Statesman
  • Progressive

Social Commentary & Opinion

  • America
  • Commentary
  • Commonweal
  • Mother Jones
  • Nation
  • New American (08856540)
  • New Republic
  • New Statesman
  • New Yorker
  • Progressive
  • World & I

Consumer Health

  • American Fitness
  • Harvard Health Letter
  • Harvard Heart Letter
  • Harvard Women's Health Watch
  • Health
  • Nutrition Action Health Letter
  • Tufts University Health & Nutrition Letter

History

  • History Today
  • Smithsonian
  • Weatherwise
  • Historical Methods
  • History: Reviews of New Books

Diplomacy & International Relations

  • Atlantic
  • Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
  • Commentary
  • Foreign Affairs
  • Foreign Policy
  • National Review
  • Washington Quarterly
  • Asian Affairs: An American Review
  • Harvard International Review
  • World Affairs

Science

  • Discover
  • New Scientist
  • Science News
  • Scientific American
  • Smithsonian
  • American Scientist
  • Issues in Science & Technology

Environmentalism

  • American Forests
  • Earth Island Journal
  • Greenpeace Update
  • Mother Earth News
  • Natural Life
  • Sierra