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News Resources

This guide is intended to assist SFU faculty, students, and staff in finding and using news information resources, and it lists selected print and electronic information sources pertaining to news media. 

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Newspapers & news magazines in the SFU Library

If you are looking for a specific article and you know the title of the newspaper or magazine, search the library catalogue to determine if the publication is available online or in print/microform format at one of our campus libraries. For example, if we were searching for an article in the Vancouver Sun, we'd see the following screen, which shows we have the Sun in three formats.

The first title listed is for our print edition. The second is for a microfilm edition, which we use as our archival copy. The third record for the Sun takes you to a record with links to our electronic editions.

If you are looking for the print edition, click on the first title to see the detailed record.

You will notice that all three SFU campus libraries subscribe to the Vancouver Sun. Surrey keeps only the current month whiile Bennett & Belzberg libraries keep the print copy until the microfilm arrives, usually about 3 months.

Current magazines and newspapers are shelved by the title of the publication, in alphabetical order.

  • At Bennett Library, current newspapers and news magazines are found on the 6th floor.
  • Belzberg Library at SFU Vancouver shelves the current newspapers on a spinner (located near the front window seating area) and older issues and news magazines on the journal shelves
  • Surrey Library keeps the current two months of major dailies with their journals.

If we have a microfilm subscription to a newspaper, we discard the print copy after the microfilm copy arrives. Microfilm is stored in cabinets in the Microforms Collection at the Bennett Library and at Belzberg.

You may also find your article online. For example, the following catalogue record shows we have access to two electronic versions of the Vancouver Sun: from LexisNexis (from 1991 forwards) and from Canadian Newsstand (from 1987, with a block on access to the last two issues). Click on the link to get to the online editions.

Finding articles in newspapers & news magazines

If you are looking for articles about a topic or person, an index can help you search across different news sources to find matching articles.

British Columbia newspaper indexes:

  • PressDisplay
    Includes an online replica of the print edition for the most current month of the Vancouver Sun and the current 2 months of the Province
  • Canadian Newsstand
    Includes indexing & full text of the Province (1989-current, delayed 2 days), Vancouver Sun (1987-current, delayed 2 days), and The Victoria Times Colonist (1993-current, delayed 2 days) and many BC weeklies (most from 2000-current), as well as many major papers from other parts of Canada such as the Globe & Mail (1977-current, no delay)
  • British Columbia Newspaper Index
    Indexes the Province, the Vancouver Sun,  and The Victoria Times Colonist (1990-current)
  • British Columbia Index
     Indexes selected articles from issues of the Georgia Straight, Vancouver Courier and the Westender published after June 2002.
  • Newspaper index [microform] PN 02 12
    Created by the B.C. Provincial Library, indexes the Vancouver Province, Vancouver Sun, Victoria Daily Colonist (1900-1990).
  • Newspaper index of New Westminster Columbian [microform] (1956-1969)
    Shelved under in alphabetical order as the "Columbian newspaper index" in the Microforms Newspapers / Journals collection
  • Canadian News Indexes
    FC 1 C358 (1977-1979), FC 1 C3581 (1980-1992), FC 1 C3582 (1993-1996 ). See also CBCA Current Events and/or Canadian Newsstand for more recent years. Note: the Vancouver Sun is the only BC newspaper indexed in this source.
  • Vancouver Province Index
    PN 4919 V33 P76 in the Lam collection. Covers 1960-1979.
  • Chinese Times
    The Chinese Times newspaper was published in Vancouver for the period 1914-1992.

Canadian newspapers, news magazines and broadcast media

  • PressDisplay
    Current issues of newspapers from around the world. Some newspapers include the provision for language translation and/or audio of stories, once selected.
  • Canadian Newsstand
    Fulltext of major Canadian newspapers and Canwest's small-market BC papers
  • Biblio Branchée
    Includes fulltext articles from six French-Canadian magazines and newspapers / Base de données avec texte intégral de six quotidiens francophones canadiens
  • Repère
    Citations to articles in French language periodicals published in Quebec and the rest of Canada. Also in print  AI 7 P6511.
  • CBCA Current Events
    Indexes the Globe and Mail (1993- ); National Post (Oct 27, 1998-); Toronto Star (1982-2001) and news magazines such as Maclean's (1982-current); other major Canadian newspapers from 1982-2001 only). Also includes transcripts of selected CTV and CBC news and documentary programs (usually only until 2002).
  • CPI.Q
    Indexes the Globe and Mail selectively (full text from Jan 1997) and news magazines such as Macleans.
  • Globe & Mail -- Canada's Heritage from 1844
    Full text archive including every image, advertisement, classified ad, birth and death notice, covering 1844-2000.
  • Canadian News Indexes
    FC 1 C358 (1977-1979), FC 1 C3581 (1980-1992), FC 1 C3582 (1993-1996 ). Covers the Montreal star, Toronto Globe & Mail, Toronto Star, Vancouver Sun, and Winnipeg Free Press. See also CBCA Current Events and/or Canadian Newsstand for more recent years.
  • Maclean's (1988-current )

World newspapers and news magazines

Web sites for news providers

Google News and Google News Archive provide indexing for selected news internet sites, which will help you identify stories that contain your search terms. Full text access is not always available.

BC and Canada

Worldwide

Alternative/Independent Media Sources (see the Alternative News Sources guide for more)

Directories

Directories provide information about specific news publications, such as the name of the publisher, information about regional editions, audience demographics and (sometimes) circulation figures.

Associations and organizations

Statistics

Articles about newspapers & news media

Two useful overviews of mass media worldwide are:

Use one of the following indexes to find information in periodicals about the newspaper, news magazine or news broadcasting industry. See also the list of Communication databases.

Style guides

 

Related SFU Library Guides

 See these subject guides for additional information:

Alternative News Sources

Communication

Publishing

 

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Last Modified: 2010-11-09