Articles & Databases

Ebony Magazine Archive covers African-American business, history & politics, education, entertainment, fashion, culture and much more between the years 1945-2014.

Access over 100 popular magazines, including Bon Appetit, Sports Illustrated, Time, and People, through this digital platform.  Send issues to the app (available in the Apple App Store and Google Play) for offline reading. 

Please Note: In order to access magazines through the Flipster app please follow the steps below:

1. Download the Flipster app onto a device.

2. Go to the NYPL articles & databases page and access Flipster through our website. Or type the following URL in your web browser on your phone or device: https://www.nypl.org/collections/articles-databases/flipster

3. Click on Connect to Database, you will be asked to sign in with your library card and pin number if accessing remotely. Look up the magazine you want, choose "Read this Issue".

4. There is an option in the upper left hand corner (looks like 3 lines), chose open in App.

5. The Flipster app usually opens automatically, but if not just go to the Flipster App and click on "shelf" the magazine should be downloaded and can be read offline.

Search the most recent global news content – with archives that stretch back into the 1980s – from over 2,500 news sources including newspapers, newswires, news journals, television and radio transcripts, blogs, podcasts, and digital-only websites in full-text format. Global Newsstream provides one of the largest collections of news from the U.S., Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. 

Jet Magazine Archive provides access to issues from 1951 through 2014 covering politics, education, and other social topics with an African American focus.

Written in the French language and covering leading issues and events, like World War II and the Fifth Republic, to French, European and international politics, society and business, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Le Monde reveals the day-to-day news coverage valued by researchers.

Contains full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. 

Michigan Chronicle offers primary source material essential to the study of American history and African American culture, history, politics, and the arts. Examine major movements from the Great Migration and Civil Rights to the election of America’s first Black president.

Newspapers.com is the largest online newspaper archive consisting of 300+ million pages of historical newspapers from 11,100+ newspapers from around the United States and beyond, with a special focus on full runs and portions of runs of well-known, regional and state titles in addition to small local newspapers. The collection includes a broad range of dates, mostly covering the 19th and 20th centuries. 

Access to this resource has been temporarily expanded to NYPL cardholders working from home, courtesy of ProQuest and its partner Newspapers.com.

Searchable full text to over 170 U.S. newspapers and 20 international newspapers. Also includes newswires and TV and radio news transcripts.

Searchable full-text and page images from The New York Times archive with the option to search by subject headings (index covers 1851-1993). 

Over 500 titles covering the entire nineteenth century, with a special emphasis on westward expansion, the American Civil War, and the African American experience.   All states and territories, except Washington and Nevada, are represented, but please note that some publications have a small number of issues, rather than their complete run, included. 

NOVELny Resources are available to all New Yorkers without a password as long as one is in New York State, via a NY driver or non-driver ID if not currently in New York State and/or via a Library Card.

Nowy Dziennik Digital Archive, part of the East View Global Press Archive, offers news from the U.S. and Poland, press reviews, books, chronicles, editorials, and discussed sports events.

An interdisciplinary digital archive of hundreds of full text journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences. 

A database of millions of citiations for articles in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, across more than 300 years. Over 6,000 journals are included. Journals indexed span 37 key subject subject areas and multiple languages.

Includes more than 1,000 full text magazine titles, covering subjects such as general interest, social sciences, health, and more. 

Provides access to current newspapers from around the world in full-color, full-page format.  Includes over 2,000 U.S. and international titles. Formerly called PressDisplay.  Registering as a user with the site is optional and allows for personalized, saved settings.  Patrons should consult PressReader's Terms of Use and Privacy Policy before registering.

Please Note: In order to access newspapers and magazines through the PressReader app please follow the steps below:

1. Go to the NYPL Articles & Databases page and access PressReader through our website. Visit https://www.nypl.org/collections/articles-databases/pressreader

2. Sign in with your library card credentials.

3. Locate the green button on the bottom of your screen or device and click Open in app.

4. Download the app.

5. To ensure that you have access in the app, please activate HotSpots. To do this, tap on Settings in the menu > HotSpots > Enable HotSpots.

Searchable full-text and page images of all ProQuest Historical Newspaper databases, which include titles related to New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., the American Jewish Newspaper Series, and the United Kingdom.  The coverage for certain titles extends up to the present, but does not include the most recent 6-12 weeks, depending on the title. 

Formerly known as Digital Microfilm Newspapers. Browse microfilm content in digital form for: American Banker (2008-), Barron's (2008-), Boston Globe (2008-), Chicago Tribune (2008-), Democrat and Chronicle-Rochester, NY (2010-), Guardian-London (2010-), New York Times-Late Edition, East Coast (2008-), Newsday (2010-), Philadelphia Inquirer (2010-), Saint Louis Post-Dispatch (2008-), USA Today (2009-), Wall Street Journal-Eastern Edition (2008-), and Washington Post-Final Edition (2008-). The coverage extends up to the present, but does not include the most recent 6-12 weeks, depending on the title.  

Please Note: To see the list of all digital microflim titles click on "Publications" on the top toolbar.

Search across all NewsBank/Readex products in one search box: African American Periodicals, America's Historical Imprints, America's Historical Newspapers, American State Papers, U.S. Congressional Serial Set, and World Newspaper Archive.

The backfile of Rolling Stone, from its launch in 1967 to the present. One of the most influential consumer magazines of the 20th-21st centuries, it initially sought to reflect the cultural, social, and political outlook of a generation of students and young adults. It has been a leading vehicle for rock and popular music journalism, as well as covering wider entertainment topics such as film and popular culture.

U.S. Newsstream provides access to current U.S. news content, as well as archives that go back into the 1980s. It includes access to content from The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, CNN Newswires, and the Huffington Post. Also included is access to Gannett regional newspapers, as well as other local, regional, and national titles from throughout the U.S. 

This resource was previously named Gannett Newsstand.