Magazine, Newspaper, & Journal Articles

Digital magazines can be read in the Libby, Flipster, and Hoopla apps. They are great for browsing through current and back issues.

If you are searching for articles on specific topics, the resources below will be more helpful.

Do you need the full-text of an article? Submit a request to receive a pdf copy.


Library Databases – login with your library card number.

Academic Search Premier –the world’s largest academic multi-subject database, offering magazine, newspaper and academic journal articles.

Business Source Premier – full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, finance and economics.

Health Source: Consumer Edition – provides access to full-text consumer health magazines and reference books. It also includes searchable full text for current health pamphlets.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition – a full-text database covering nursing and allied health topics, including pediatric nursing, critical care, mental health, nursing management, medical law and more.

Historical Newspapers – New Jersey Collection
Search these NJ newspapers:

  • Asbury Park Press (Asbury Park, NJ)—1905-2009
  • Courier News (Bridgewater, NJ)—1891-2010 (1961-2010 available now)
  • Courier-Post (Cherry Hill, NJ)—1949-2009
  • The Daily Journal (Vineland, NJ)—1925-2011
  • Daily Record (Morristown, NJ)—1974-2012
  • Home News Tribune (East Brunswick, NJ)—1903-2009
  • Plainfield Courier (Plainfield, NJ) -1891-1961

MasterFILE Premier – a multi-subject database providing full text sources including magazines, primary source documents, reference books, and an image collection of photos, maps and flags.

Newspaper Source Plus – provides a full-text digital collection of the world’s major news content. It includes millions of articles from newspapers, newswires and news magazines. In addition, it offers television and radio transcripts and ongoing daily updates from popular news sources.

The Star Ledger – read a full-color digital image of the daily paper; also search the text files of articles dating back to 1989.

U.S. Major Dailies
Search and read full text articles from the five most respected U.S. national and regional newspapers: The New York Times; Washington Post; The Wall Street JournalLos Angeles Times, and Chicago Tribune.  The content is available by 8am each day and provides archives as far back as 1985. This database is available on the ProQuest platform.

Do a quick search of multiple databases* for articles and information:

Research databases
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*Academic Search Premier, Business Source Elite, Literary Reference Center, MasterFILE Elite


Open-Access Databases – these resources are provided by journal publishers who make some of their content available for free.

PubMed Central®– (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM)

JSTOR Open and Free Content – includes scholarly journals and art images from the scholarly database.

Wiley Open Access – Wiley Open Access publishes a number of online journals across biological, chemical and health sciences.

Taylor & Francis Open Journals – a multi-subject database. Articles that are open access will appear with the green “Open access” indicator in the list of search results.

ScienceDirect Open Access Journals – covers science, chemistry, biology, mathematics, engineering and technology, physics, medicine and more.

Elsevier Science Open Access Journals – scientific articles.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) – a multi-subject online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.

Search ProQuest’s Publicly Available Content Database (multi-subject):