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Magazines & Newspapers

The McHenry Public Library subscribes to approximately 400 magazines and newspapers in the Adult and Young People Services areas combined. Search our Online Catalog to find an individual title. Choose "Advanced Search", then "Title” from the drop-down menu. Type the name of the periodical in the search field and choose "Magazine or Journal" from the Format menu. Click Search.

Premier Resources - you need an MPLD card to access these databases.

First Search    Search for full-text articles from magazines, medical journals, government publications, and other sources on a wide variety of subjects from 16 different databases. The Statewide Illinois Library Catalog, known as SILC, is accessible through First Search, as is Find-it Illinois, Ask ? Away and WorldCat(alog).

General Reference Center Gold -  A general interest database that integrates a variety of sources in one easy-to-use interface. Use General Reference Center Gold to find articles from newspapers, reference books, and periodicals, many with full-text and images. Find the latest current events, popular culture, business and industry coverage, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more.

World News Digest   brings together and enhances nearly seven decades of news from the renowned Facts On File World News Digest in print. This archival record of domestic and international news is updated weekly and contains more than 1 million internal hyperlinks and convenient new features such as tabbed search results. It covers all major political, social, and economic events since November 1940. 

Web Sites

First Things First - including newspapers, financial news, magazines, media news, streaming media, sports, weather, wire services.

Newspapers

Chicago Sun Times - read the paper online.

Chicago Tribune - read the paper online.

USNPL - US Newspapers

Mega Websites

Magatopia – lists 2,500 free online magazines.

External links represent selected web sites that may be used as starting points in your research and are not intended to be exhaustive lists of all available external sites related to these topics. Use the external links provided at your own discretion. For suggestions, comments, or to report broken links, you may contact the Web Team.