Newspapers & Periodicals

Highbeam (free trial/$)
HighBeam is the premier online research tool for business and academic use. Here, you can search more than 80 million articles from the archives of over 6,500 newspapers, magazines, journals, and other publications

Wyoming Newspaper Project (free)
More than 900,000 newspaper pages have been converted from microfilm to a digital format. Using the links on the left, you can browse the entire collection or search for newspapers from specified towns or counties, on certain dates, or by a specific title. The text is searchable, including news articles, news briefs, obituaries and other items of interest.

Ireland Newspaper Abstracts (free)
Transcriptions of newspaper articles from Ireland, organized by county, year, and month.

Legacy.com (free)
Legacy.com partners with more than 800 newspapers throughout North America, Europe and Australia and features obituaries and Guest Books for more than two-thirds of people who die in the United States.

The Canada Gazette (free)
With this site, Library and Archives Canada (LAC), co-operation with the Canada Gazette Directorate, Public Works and Government Services Canada, will make the Gazette available online, in its entirety, for the first time.  Includes an online database that includes all issues of the Canada Gazette dating back to 1841 and searchable by keyword.

Chronicling America (free)
This site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1860-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).