MRU Library Website: Journalism &amp; Digital Media: Scan Media

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:

Calgary Herald (1883-2010) This link opens in a new window
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.

Globe and Mail (1936-2018)

New York Times Digital This link opens in a new window
Unlimited access to New York Times content.
NOTE: Create a user account then use your username and password to access via website or the NYT app.
Access the NYT (if you have an account)
Create an MRU account
Canadian Business & Current Affairs Complete This link opens in a new window
Full text for Canadian publications on a broad range of subject areas including CBCA Business, CBCA Education, and CBCA Reference & Current Events.
Access to this resource is funded by Alberta Advanced Education through the Lois Hole Campus Alberta Digital Library.
Canadian Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Access to the full text of Canadian newspapers, newswires, newsmagazines, and television and radio transcripts.
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.
Gale OneFile: CPI.Q This link opens in a new window
Includes full text articles from general, academic and business magazines
Alternative Press Index & Archive This link opens in a new window
A bibliographic database of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from international alternative, radical, and left periodicals.
Associated Press Collections Online This link opens in a new window
A vast presentation of the history and back story of the venerable Associated Press—decades worth of wire copy, correspondence, memos, internal publications, and more.
Authorized users: Include any person within the geographically defined area of Alberta that can authenticate via IP address using the Gale Geo IP authentication service.

Data mining: Licensed content available via text and data mining hard drives available from the Library for use in accordance to terms of use.

Scholarly sharing: Allowed with adherence to MRU's fair dealing guidelines.

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.

Maclean's Magazine Archive
Digitized full-image version of the complete contents of "Canada's national magazine" from 1905 to 2005.

Life Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
An extensive full-text collection of the famed photojournalism magazine, spanning its very first issue in November, 1936 through December, 2000.
Time Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
An extensive full-text collection of the prominent weekly news magazine dating back to its first issue in March 1923 through December 2000.

FFWD Weekly Magazine
Visit 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

Create a Twitter List to follow local journalists
Set up a Google News Alert
Get an email alert every time your chosen person/topic/ organization/issue is mentioned in the news.
Subscribe to RSS Feeds
Set up a feed aggregator to compile feeds from your favourite news sources and have them sent them to your device.

Hailey Siracky

Journalism & Digital Media | Scan Media