Canadian Newsstand™ offers unparalleled access to the full text of nearly 300 newspapers from Canada's leading publishers, including The Globe and Mail.

This full text database includes the complete available electronic backfile for most newspapers, providing full access to the articles, columns, editorials, and features.  Some backfiles date as far back as the late 1970s and 1980s. Canadian Newsstand content is updated daily so researchers always have timely access to new information.

Offering Canadian Newsstand through the ProQuest® web interface provides subscribers with a single point of access to integrated Canadian, U.S., and international content and takes advantage of the extensive features and functions of the interface.

Now you're able to create an online newspaper resource from one of the world's largest newspaper collections to best meet the needs of your library's patrons. In addition, researchers can cross-search Canadian Newsstand with the Canadian Business & Current Affairs™ (CBCA) database, a very powerful combination for the retrieval of Canadian information.

Comprehensive Coverage, Flexible Packages

Subscribers are able to create an online newspaper resource from Canadian Newsstand by choosing from a selection of major national daily papers, customized regional packages, or simply by selecting single daily newspapers.

The core of the database is the Canadian Major Dailies collection which includes national and leading regional newspapers such as The Globe and Mail, National Post, Montreal Gazette, Ottawa Citizen, Toronto Star, Regina Leader Post, Edmonton Journal, Vancouver Sun and the Victoria Times Colonist.

For those customers seeking a detailed regional focus, five regional packages are available.  Each package includes the relevant major papers within the region, supplemented by smaller market dailies, as well as weeklies and other papers, to provide detailed geographic coverage.

Accessing Canadian Newsstand

This database is available on the Web through ProQuest®, a premier information access and retrieval system. With basic and advanced searching, it is suitable for everyone, from novice researchers to experienced information professionals. Natural language searching, SmartSearch and the Topic Guide are just a few of the features that help users find the exact information they need, quickly and easily.

The ProQuest interface offers additional features for a user-friendly and precise searching experience:

• Narrow searches by date, multiple fields and document types
• Spell check
• Abstracts for every newspaper article
• The interface is available in 17 different languages
• Translate articles on demand
• Open URL Compliant

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