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Popular subjects
We have grouped several resource together to make them easier to find:
Newspaper Source Plus (Formerly Newspaper Source)
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.
- Full text for more than 1,200 newspapers
- More than 40 news magazines
- News from more than 130 newswires
- More than 77 million full-text articles
- More than 1.8 million television and radio news transcripts
Daily Updates with News View: ongoing updates throughout the day. Popular sources include:
- AP (Associated Press)
- CNN Wire
- PR Wire
- UPI (United Press International)
- Xinhua (China)
News View also includes television and radio news transcripts from top sources:
- ABC News (American)
- ABC (Australian)
- CBC (Canadian)
- CBS News
- CNBC
- CNN
- CNN International
- FOX News
- MSNBC
- National Public Radio
- PBS
Newspaper Source Plus is also included in Explora.
Regional Business News
Full text for more than 80 regional U.S. and Canadian business publications (including titles from Crain Communications),
A supplemental database for customers of Business Source Complete.
Academic Search Complete
Largest collection of active full text peer-reviewed journals
Features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full-text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.
Directory of Open Access Journals
Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals
Aim to cover all subjects and languages
MasterFile Premier
Designed specifically for public libraries.
This resource contains:
- Full-text periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more
- Full-text more than 500 reference books,
- Over 107,000 primary source documents,
- An Image Collection of over 510,000 photos, maps & flags,
- PDF backfiles (as far back as 1975) for key publications including American Libraries, Foreign Affairs, History Today, Judaism, Library Journal, National Review, Saturday Evening Post, etc.
OverDrive Online Magazines
75 current and popular magazine titles on topics such as news, entertainment, business, home and garden, celebrity, exercise, lifestyle, sports and more.
- Can be checked out just like a digital books through OverDrive’s Libby app or from the
- Library’s OverDrive website and read in a user’s Internet browser.
- Check out is for 7 or 21 days and the magazines return themselves
- Magazines do not count towards the ten item checkout limit
- Magazine titles can be used simultaneously by more than one patron, so unlike digital books, there is never any waiting for a title
- Includes back issues (when available) beginning from our start date of January 2019
- Best viewed in the Libby app
- Patrons will need a valid, Garland library card
Libby - the new OverDrive app!
Meet Libby
Libby Instructions (313 KB)
Libby app in a browser
OverDrive Help & Support links:
OverDrive Help - Search for answers and/or watch how-to videos
Libby Help - Learn about Libby and how it works
Device Resource Center - A snapshot of how popular devices can be used with OverDrive
OverDrive status - A site for determining if OverDrive is experiencing performance issues