Newspapers and Magazines (Digital Access)

Note: In addition to the resources below, all three town libraries subscribe to a number of online magazines, like The Economist, The Atlantic, Newsweek, and Mother Jones, through web or app access through Libby. To create an account, you will need your Woodbridge, Bethany, or Orange library card.


Produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program, a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC), this archive features historic newspapers and “select digitized newspaper pages.” One of the best ways to search is to limit the search years, and then use really broad search terms, like “battle” (for WWI battles).


Provides full text for magazines, reference books, and primary source documents in business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more, as well as an image collection containing photos, maps, and flags.


Contains hundreds of popular high school magazines in many subject areas including history, science, careers and much more. Some titles are Archaeology, Astronomy, Bioscience, Careers & Colleges, Congressional Digest, Scientific American, Smithsonian, World War II. MAS Ultra also has biographies and primary source documents, and an image collection containing photos.


Collects articles from current newspapers from about the 1980s to the present, such as the Chicago Tribune (1985-), Christian Science Monitor (1988-), Hartford Courant (1992-), Los Angeles Times (1985-), New York Times (1980-), Wall Street Journal (1984-), and the Washington Post (1987-). There are also historical Connecticut newspapers, including the Hartford Courant (1766-1922) and the Connecticut Courant.


This collection includes a sampling (not a full range) of newspapers covering various towns, villages, and topics ranging from 1821-1929. Some of these articles have been arranged by topic, like World War I.


Provides full-text searching for more than 1,400 newspapers from all around the world. Videos and podcasts are coming soon.


This page collects links to access the digital versions of popular magazines offered by the CT State Library, which include The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Consumer Reports, and many more.