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Please note that there is an issue with AP Newsroom. Users can access the resource and perform searches, but it is prompting users to login when attempting to proceed further. The provider of this resource has indicated that the issue will be resolved mid-November. We apologize for the limited access available at this time. 
Today's news and the greatest events in 185 years of world history in photographs, audio sound bites, video, and graphics. Over 3,000 photos/images/sound bites/graphics added daily, including audio and visual snapshots.

Extensive coverage at every level—international, national, regional, state and local. This fully searchable resource features news content from all 50 U.S. states as well as more than 5,300 international news sources from 140 countries. This includes more than 528 million current and archived news articles. Readers can pinpoint information, compare diverse views, and track subjects geographically and over time with the deepest newspaper archives available.

1994-present.  Local and national news, and a primary source of obituaries.

Requires you to create an account, be sure to select the FREE option. Includes the Chester Daily Times (1876-1881), Chester Evening Times (1886), Chester Reporter (1941), Chester Times (1882-1959), Delaware County Daily Times (1959-1976).

Single search for 26 newspapers in the Philadelphia region. 

MasterFILE Elite provides: Consumer Reports, Consumer Reports Buying Guide, Time, People, Scientific American, Discover, The New Republic, Vital Speeches of the Day, Congressional Digest, Civil War Times, History Today, Sports Illustrated and many more.

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. The New York Times Book Review are also available. (To "search again" in these publications, use the browser Back button to get to the publication-title screen.)

Formerly Infotrac Newsstand. Browse and read full-text newspapers from more than 2,300 major newspapers, including the New York Times. Content covers global, national, U.S. regional and local newspapers. Search articles instantly by title, headline, date, author, newspaper section, or other fields.  This database also includes popular magazines, thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts, and transcripts.

One search, three databases using beautiful new search screens:
Philadelphia Inquirer Historic  1829-1922
Philadelphia Inquirer text edition 1981-Current
Philadelphia Inquirer Image edition 2018-Current

Retrieve actual images of the newspaper. 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.

Provides access to Infotrac's most searched magazines as well as many titles recommended by Bowker's "Magazines for Libraries."

eResources on many topics made possible in part by Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funds from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services and through the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's Library Access funds administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, Office of Commonwealth Libraries.

Find articles and information from Academic OneFile, General OneFile and InfoTrac Newsstand in one search! 

Full-color, interactive digital magazines to download to a computer or mobile device.