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Magazines and Newspapers
Search for articles and primary source materials on an unlimited number of subjects including history, health, business and more.
Academic Search™ Premier
Full text articles for more than 4,700 publications, including more than 12,200 peer-reviewed journals. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available.
School Information
Grade Level: high school
Subjects: art/music, English/language arts, history/government
Third-Party Provider: EBSCO
Access World News – Newsbank
The most comprehensive collection of full-text newspapers globally. Provides extensive coverage at every level—international, national, regional, state and local. This fully searchable resource features news content from all 50 states as well as more than 5,900 international news sources from 172 countries. News content may be included in its original published language or translated into English.
School information
Grade Levels: middle school and high school
Subjects: health, history/government, math, science, social studies and technology
Third-Party Provider: Newsbank
Business Source Premier
A complete resource for all aspects of business, including management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and more with full-text from over 2,200 journals.
Third-Party Provider: EBSCO
Consumer Health Complete
Provides full text for hundreds of health reference books and encyclopedias, thousands of evidence-based health reports, and health pamphlets covering key areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many aspects of complimentary, holistic and integrated medicine.
Third-Party Provider: EBSCO
EBSCOhost Master File
Searchable, multi-database of popular newspaper and magazine articles as well as primary sources. Site also includes a searchable images database of photos, maps, and flags and an English dictionary.
Third-Party Provider: EBSCO
ERIC
Searchable database of articles (some full text) from education-related journals, dissertations, regulatory materials, quantitative data and reference materials. Also features opinion pieces, tests/questionnaires and materials published in foreign languages.
School Information
Grade Levels: for college students and educational instructors and researchers
Third-Party Provider: EBSCO
Explora Primary Schools (K-5)
Provides safe, trustworthy research materials for class projects or homework on a variety of topics.
School information
Grade Levels: elementary school
Subjects: art/music, English/language arts, geography, history, math, science and social studies
Third-Party Provider: EBSCO
Explora Public Libraries
Provides user-friendly features and easy-to-browse categories of reliable content from the world's leading magazines.
School information
Grade Levels: high school
Subjects: art/music, business, English/language arts, health, history/government, math, science, social studies and technology
Third-Party Provider: EBSCO
Explora Secondary Schools (6-12)
Provides safe, trustworthy research materials for class projects or homework on a variety of topics.
School information
Grade Levels: middle school and high school
Subjects: art/music, business, English/language arts, health, history/government, math, science, social studies and technology
Third-Party Provider: EBSCO
Flipster
Features: eMagazines are available instantly, no waiting
Need help? Try our online chat or check out EBSCO's help section.
Third-Party Provider: EBSCO
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Provides scholarly full text journals focusing on medical disciplines, which covers 1,300 generic drug sheets.
Third-Party Provider: EBSCO
Literary Reference Center
Contains articles and essays of literary criticism and journals, biographies, literary journals, classic and contemporary poems and short stories, book reviews, author interviews and classic novels.
School information
Grade Levels: high school
Subjects: English/language arts
Third-Party Provider: EBSCO
MEDLINE
Offers medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system and pre-clinical sciences among many subjects.
Third-Party Provider: EBSCO
New York Times (current issue only)
Enjoy free, unlimited access to NYTimes.com in our branches. Users have to register for an account with an email address and password.
To access NYTimes.com from home, create an account, login and then redeem an at-home access code for 72 hours of unlimited at-home access.
Third-Party Provider: Times Services
Newspaper Source
Provides articles from national and international newspapers, television & radio transcripts, and 200 regional newspapers including the Akron Beacon Journal, Boston Globe, Columbus Dispatch, Washington Post and more.
Third-Party Provider: EBSCO
Proquest Historical Newspapers
Search for newspaper articles in The New York Times (1851-2013), Chicago Tribune (1849-1993), Washington Post (1889-2000), Wall Street Journal (1889-1993).
Third-Party Provider: ProQuest
RBdigital Magazines
Features: Exclusive downloadable Magazines
Need help? Try our online chat or check out RBdigital's help section.
Third-Party Provider: RBdigital
Regional Business News
Contains full-text articles from 75 journals, newspapers and newswires about businesses from across the U.S.
Third-Party Provider: EBSCO
Toledo Blade
Full text of local, award winning newspaper, featuring articles from 1997 through the present archived in a historical format.
Third-Party Provider: Newsbank
Toledo Blade - In-Library Use Only
Toledo Blade access when inside the library.
When prompted to login:
Username: newspaper@toledolibrary.org
Password: blade2020
Third-Party Provider: Toledo Blade
Available only inside Library Locations.
Toledo Blade Obituary Index
An index of the obituaries that appeared in the Toledo Blade from 1837 to present. Users can request a copy of an obituary.
Third-Party Provider: Toledo Lucas County Public Library
