Media Scanning
Monitor the local, national and international news to get story ideas, to review and analyze coverage of a topic, and to fact-check and verify news stories.
Search News Media
These databases contain newspaper and magazine articles as well as tv and radio broadcast transcripts:
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Calgary Herald (1883-2010)Cover to cover access of international, national, provincial, and local events from 125 years of the Calgary Herald, the largest and oldest daily newspaper in Alberta. This resource is available freely to all Albertans.
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New York Times Digital
Access to New York Times content via website or app.
What is included? News: Reporting, analysis, and cultural coverage. Cooking, Wirecutter (product reviews), Audio (shows, narrated articles and more). Limited access to Games and the Athletic. 10 articles/month to share with non-subscribers.
Historical access from the first issue in 1851 via the Times Machine
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Canadian Business & Current AffairsFull text for Canadian publications on a broad range of subject areas including CBCA Business, CBCA Education, and CBCA Reference & Current Events.
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Canadian NewsstreamAccess to the full text of Canadian newspapers, newswires, newsmagazines, and television and radio transcripts.
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Canadian Reference Centre This link opens in a new window
Combines Canadian magazines, newspapers, newswires, reference books, biographies, and an image collection to create a collection of regional full text content.
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CPI.Q (Canadian Periodical Index) This link opens in a new windowIncludes full text articles from general, academic and business magazines
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Alternative Press Index & ArchiveA bibliographic database of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from international alternative, radical, and left periodicals.
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Associated Press Collections OnlineA vast presentation of the history and back story of the venerable Associated Press—decades worth of wire copy, correspondence, memos, internal publications, and more.
Search Magazines
MRU Library subscribes to a huge number of magazines. Check out electronic versions of current and past issues of the titles listed here. We also have current subscriptions to some of these titles in print -- check out the periodical collection on the third floor of the Library & Learning Centre.
You can find more magazines using our custom journal search in LibrarySearch.
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Maclean's Magazine ArchiveDigitized full-image version of the complete contents of "Canada's national magazine" from 1905 to 2005.
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Life Magazine ArchiveAn extensive full-text collection of the famed photojournalism magazine, spanning its very first issue in November, 1936 through December, 2000.
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Time Magazine ArchiveAn extensive full-text collection of the prominent weekly news magazine dating back to its first issue in March 1923 through December 2000.
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FFWD Weekly MagazineVisit the MRU Archives to see the full collection of this Calgary-based local news and entertainment weekly newspaper that ran from 1995 to 2015.
Keeping Up with Local News
Keep Up with Local News
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Set up a Google News AlertGet an email alert every time your chosen person/topic/ organization/issue is mentioned in the news.
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Subscribe to RSS FeedsSet up a feed aggregator to compile feeds from your favourite news sources and have them sent them to your device.
