NOW magazine puts up searchable archive of 1,560 issues dating back to 1981

April 5, 1984
Toronto's NOW magazine has released a completely searchable archive of every issue going back to the first, published almost 30 years ago, September 10, 1981. The leading alternative weekly magazine in Toronto, it started out in small offices above a shoe store on Danforth Avenue. Now it operates from its own building on Church Street and distributes 100,000 copies every Thursday

Google paper archives grow, with Halifax Gazette from 1753

Google has put a digitized version of the Halifax Gazette, June 2, 1753 edition online, the oldest newspaper in its growing archive. It has also put the complete archives of the granddaddy of alternative papers, the Village Voice, online, going back to 1955. Plus papers from around the world, including the Sydney Morning Herald, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, The Manila Standard and The Nation from

Time magazine archives available back to 1923

Time magazine now has opened up its archives going back to 1923; you can find covers and stories for every issue in fully searchable form. The links are so sophisticated that you can follow a story week to week. (The cover shown is from 1978).