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New York Times Digital Microfilm

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The Libraries are discontinuing their subscription to the microfilm edition of the New York Times and replacing it with the digitized version made available through ProQuest. This resource consists of scans made from the completed microfilm edition and provides full text and images in downloadable PDF. Our holdings start with January 2008. Please note that the actual microfilms are no longer being received as of January 2010.

Access the New York Times Digital Microfilm via our Databases page–just type “New York Times” into the title keyword search box.

Gale Databases on Trial

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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center (Ends May 16, 2008)
Updated daily. Provides full text access to differing points of view on current social issues. Brings together viewpoint articles, contextual topic overviews, government and organizational statistics, biographies of social activists, court cases, profiles of government agencies and special interest groups, newspaper and magazine articles, as well as links to more than 1,800 reviewed and subject-indexed web sites. 1980 – present. Password for off-campus access: udalhousie

Economist Historical Archive (Ends June 10, 2008)
Over 160 years of The Economist online are accessible through The Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003. A joint project between Gale Publishing and The Economist, this complete digitization of the global weekly newspaper offers a unique and non-partisan perspective on world events. Trial access is from campus locations only.

Alternative Press Index (Trial)

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Trial access to Alternative Press Index is available on the Dal Libraries’ trial resources site. Access is by authorization number and password which are provided on the trial resources page. The trial will end April 19, 2008.

Alternative Press Index indexes nearly 300 alternative, radical, and left periodicals, newspapers, and magazines, covering cultural, economic, political, and social change from 1991 to the present. Subjects covered include anarchism, indigenous peoples, democracy, labor, ecology, national liberation, feminism, theory and practice of socialism, gay and lesbian issues.

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