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Newspapers and Magazines

Local, Regional and National newspapers and magazines providing hot topics, news headlines, information about local employers and more.

Access World News

Provides access to over 14,000 news sources in the United States and around the world.  Though not a historical collection, the general time period covered is from 1980s to the present. 

Access World News

Black Life in America

Provides “comprehensive coverage of the African American experience from earliest times to today.  Sourced from nearly 20,000 American and global newspapers from 1704 to the present, including over 400 African American newspapers.”

Black Life in America

Hispanic Life in America

Provides “comprehensive coverage of the Hispanic American experience from earliest times to today.  Sourced from nearly 17,500 American and global newspapers from the 1700s to the present, including over 450 Hispanic American newspapers.”

Hispanic Life in America

Gale One File: News

A full-text newspaper resource that provides access to more than 2,300 major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers, plus leading titles from around the world. It also includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts, and transcripts.

Gale OneFile: News

Magazines

Flipster is a next-generation digital magazine service that allows people to browse the latest issues of high quality digital versions of popular magazines.

Go to the Flipster Website

AP Newsroom

AP Newsroom is AP Images with a new, mobile-friendly delivery platform that allows users to easily search, preview and download the latest Associated Press content. The content, produced by the AP’s network of award-winning journalists and curated by its editors, includes top news stories, photos, audio clips and print graphics.

AP Newsroom >

Harrisburg Patriot-News

For full-text searching from 8/1/1986 to present, choose the first option listed. For a full-color Image edition of the Patriot-News that offers a virtual experience of viewing the print newspaper, including classifieds, job listings, obituaries and advertisements, from late 2018 to present, choose the second option listed. 

Go To NewsBank

Pennsylvania - News

Provides full runs and portions of runs of many current and older/historic Pennsylvania newspapers, some from as far back as the 1700s up to the 2000s. Enjoy viewing a newspaper as it originally looked, since each page is fully scanned.

Go to Newspapers.com

Evaluate and Fact Check News Resources

Use the resources below to help evaluate information found online, print or other news media resources.

Media Bias/ Fact Check A comprehensive media bias resource that currently lists 1700+ media sources in their database. Use the search features to check the bias of any source.

Factcheck – This website is run by the nonprofit Annenberg Public Policy Center, and focuses on fact-checking political news.

Politifact – This Pulitzer Prize-winning independent website focuses on fact-checking American politics.

Snopes – This fact-checking website covers a wide variety of topics, including current