PressDisplay, the newest addition to the BC Libraries' collection of online databases, lets you look at more than 250 newspapers from around the world, exactly as they appear in print and on the same day they are published.PressDisplay includes papers from more than 50 countries and in more than 30 languages, with the current edition and a 60-day archive.
To select a newspaper in PressDisplay, click on the Newspapers tab on the right of the opening screen. You can click to view a list of newspapers from a particular country or, via the drop-down menu, by language or from an A-to-Z list.
After selecting a country (or a language or letter of the alphabet), the screen will show a list of titles in that category in the far left and the front pages of each of those newspapers in the center. Click on a title or a front page to go to that newspaper.
To zoom in on a particular article, click on any part of the text or click on the magnifying glass icon at the bottom of the screen. Once you are in an article, you can move around the page by holding down the button on your mouse and moving the mouse up or down, left or right. To zoom back out, double click on the page or click again on the magnifying glass.
Among the papers included in this online service are:
- Washington Post
- USA Today
- Chicago Tribune
- Los Angeles Times
- New York Daily News
- Columbus Dispatch
- Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
- Le Figaro (France)
- La Nacion (Argentina)
- Irish Times (Ireland)
- Kathimerini (Greece)
- Huriyet (Turkey)
- Asharq Al-Awsat (Saudi Arabia)
- The East African (Kenya)
- and many others
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