These newspaper titles are available in print in our Newspaper Room. Current issues are for in-library use only.
- Boston Herald
- Boston Globe
- Financial Times
- Investor’s Business Daily (weekly)
- USA Today
- Banker & Tradesman (weekly)
- Boston Business Journal (weekly)
- Barron’s (weekly)
- Lowell Sun
- New York Times
- Sampan (biweekly)
- Wall Street Journal
Back issues are held on the lower level near the reference desk. Retention varies by title:
Banker & Tradesman: current two months in Newspaper Room and back issues on lower level
Barron's: current two months in Newspaper Room and past year on lower level
Boston Globe: current week in Newspaper Room, last two months on lower level; 1985-2004 available on microfilm
Lowell Sun: current week in Newspaper Room, last six months on lower level
New York Times: current week in Newspaper Room, last two months on lower level
Wall Street Journal: current week in Newspaper Room, last two months on lower level
Boston Globe
1980-current. Full-text content of local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community.
Chelmsford Independent
Note: Publication merged with Westford and Littleton papers May 2019, continues as Eagle-Inpdependent.
Full-text content of weekly newspaper of Chelmsford, Massachusetts (published every Thursday). Paid advertisements are excluded. [12/8/2005-5/30/2019]
Chelmsford newspapers available on microfilm: Chelmsford Independent 1986-present; Chelmsford Newsweekly 1940-1993
Chelmsford Newspapers Obituary Search
A PDF index to the obituaries listed in the Chelmsford Newsweekly (6/20/1940 – 8/26/1993) and the Chelmsford Independent (1/2/1986 – present). When you locate the correct obituary, you can use the newspaper name, date, and page number to look up the obituary text on our microfilm records, or email hidden; JavaScript is required at email hidden; JavaScript is required or 978-256-5521 x1211 (with the obituary citation information) and we can email you the obituary.
Note: Obituaries not in this archive may have appeared in the Lowell Sun newspaper, which is available on microfilm at Lowell’s Pollard Memorial Library. You can also contact the Lowell Sun’s obituary department at email hidden; JavaScript is required or 978-970-4652.
Eagle-Independent
Full-text content of weekly newspaper of Chelmsford, Westford, and Littleton, Massachusetts (published every Thursday). Paid advertisements are excluded. Preceded by Chelmsford Independent. [5/30/2019-Current]
Chelmsford newspapers available on microfilm: Chelmsford Independent 1986-present; Chelmsford Newsweekly 1940-1993
Lowell Sun
Complete full-text content of local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded. [10/14/2001 – Current]
America’s News Magazines
Collection of 40+ weekly, monthly, and quarterly magazines on a variety of topics, from news to outdoors to parenting to science.
New York Times
Full-text articles for The New York Times, including The New York Times Book Review, and The New York Times Magazine. (2000 to current).
Expanded Academic ASAP
Collection of scholarly journals and general interest titles that covers everything from art and literature to economics and the sciences.
General OneFile
Our largest general-interest periodical resource allows you to find the information you want quickly, with intuitive searching that ensures you tap into quality sources.
Global Issues in Context
Integrates news, global viewpoints, reference materials, country information, primary source documents, videos, statistics, and more in a single search with a global perspective.
InfoTrac Newsstand
Full-text newspaper article search by title, headline, date, author, newspaper section, or other fields, to more than 2,300 major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers, as well as leading titles from around the world
InfoTrac Student Edition
Periodicals database is designed for high-school students with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books.
America’s News Magazines
Collection of 40+ weekly, monthly, and quarterly magazines on a variety of topics, from news to outdoors to parenting to science.
BookPage
Discover this month’s most exciting new books in the current issue of BookPage.
Overdrive Magazines
Full-color and full-page layout access to popular magazines, just as if you were holding them. These magazines have no wait lists or holds and do not count towards checkout limits.
Libby by Overdrive: Downloadable eAudiobooks & eBooks
eAudiobooks, eBooks, Magazines, and more that you can download and listen to on your computer, your mobile device, or tablet.
Reading on Kindle? Find help here for getting Libby books to your device with Amazon.
We offer a variety of historic newspapers in our microfilm collection:
Boston Globe: 1985-2004 (microfilm only)
Chelmsford Newsweekly*: 1940 - August 1993
Chelmsford Sentinel*: 1971 - 1974
Chelmsford Independent*: 1986 - 2019
Eagle-Independent*: June-December 2019
*Chelmsford titles are also available digitally on our public computers.
Check out our Obituary Guide to find obituaries in the Chelmsford newspapers listed above.
We also offer the following digital-only Lowell titles:
Lowell Daily Courier: 1894-1906
Lowell Courier Citizen Evening: 1906-1921
Lowell Courier Citizen Morning: 1906-1921
Lowell Courier-Citizen: 1932-1941
You can access these using our public computers. Please ask for the storage device at the reference desk.
Titles in these collections are scanned from microfilm and contain the complete content (images and text) from original print copies.
Other historic newspaper resources: