Fulton Library is more than just a place to borrow books—it offers access to a diverse range of digital resources that can significantly enhance your research, learning, and personal interests. Whether you are a student, faculty member, or community member, the library provides numerous online tools that can help you stay informed, explore historical archives, and keep you up to date on current events at no extra cost. This includes current newspapers to stay on top of today’s news, plus archives with older editions if you’re looking for a historical perspective.

One of these databases, Global Newsstream, is an excellent resource for both current and older newspapers. It includes thousands of newspapers from around the world, including special sections of The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The Los Angeles Times for a national perspective; and The Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News for a local perspective from Utah. Many of these newspapers require a fee to read more than a few articles on their website each month, but you can read them for free using the library’s Global Newsstream database.

There are a couple ways you can use Global Newsstream. If you find a specific article on a newspaper website that you’d like to read, simply copy the article title and search for it in Global Newsstream. If you’d like to browse through articles published in a newspaper on a specific day, you can use the Publications  option in Global Newsstream to search for the newspaper title and then select the day you’d like to browse. To find Global Newsstream, just click the “Databases” link on the library’s homepage to get to a list of all library databases.

Along with Global Newsstream, you can access Fulton Library’s newspaper database, which includes access to the Utah Daily Herald, the General OneFile database, Deseret News, the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, the UVU Review, UVU Historical Student Newspapers, and Black Freedom Struggles in the United States, which all give you the ability to search and read newspaper articles on a given topic.

Reading the news is an excellent way to be an informed citizen, and Fulton Library is here to help! If you have any questions about reading newspapers through the library, just ask a librarian—we’re happy to help.