Descriptions for Magazine/Newspaper/Journal Databases

ABI Inform
A key source for major trade and industry news, with in-depth coverage of such topics as companies, products, executives, and trends. Study and compare specific trades and industries, including telecommunications, computing, transportation, construction, petrochemicals, and many others.

Access Pennsylvania Digital Repository
Digitized PDF images of PA newspapers formerly in microfilm.

AP Images
More than 500,000 current and historical photographs and graphics can be searched by date, place and subject. More than 800 photographs are added to the archive daily.

Consumer Health Complete
Covers all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to complementary, holistic, and integrated medicine. Zooms in on topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, men’s & women's health, and children's health. Includes a collection of high-quality consumer health encyclopedias & reference books, thousands of evidenced-based full text health reports, pamphlets, brochures, and more.

Delaware County Daily Times, 1994 -- Current.
Local and national news, and a primary source of obituaries.

Delaware County Daily Times Historic 1876 – 1977
Includes the Chester Daily Times (1876-1881), Chester Evening Times (1886), Chester Reporter (1941), Chester Times (1882-1959), Delaware County Daily Times (1959-1976).

InfoTrac Newsstand (Select link under Newspapers.)
A Web-based, full-text newspaper database that allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, newspaper section or other assigned fields. Search a collection of more than 1,000 newspapers, and customize screen appearance, search options and results format.

New York Times, Historical
The database covers The New York Times from its first issue in 1851 through 2003. To see a complete article, just click on the title in a list of search results, and the system displays the image of the full article. You can also access the complete image (in pdf format) of any page in any issue or even browse the database and scan individual issues page by page.

New York Times, The
2000 to Current. Complete full-text content of local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community.

OmniFile Select
100% full-text multi-disciplinary database covering art, education, social science, the humanities, business, science, current events, and more.

Philadelphia Inquirer
1981-Current. Complete full-text content of local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community.

Philadelphia Inquirer Historical Archive
1860-1922. Includes some issues from the 1830s, 1840s, and 1850s. Primary source material detailing the expansion of the city of Philadelphia and the development of the western suburbs.

SIRS Discoverer
Includes full text articles and images from over 1,600 domestic and international newspapers, magazines and government documents. Articles are assigned a reading level –Easy, Moderate or Challenging- based on age-appropriateness, educational content, interest and reading level. This database is an excellent student resource.