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Magzter

Magzter Digital Library Edition
Access hundreds of digital magazines. Download the app on your Apple and Android mobile devices. Users must enter a valid email address and library card number.

Newspaper

Cardinal News
Find in-depth stories about politics, economy, and culture of Southwest and Southside Virginia.

Newsbank The Roanoke Times Collection
Read full-text articles on local news, issues, events, and people, as well as current and archived issues of Roanoke Times. Updated daily, it includes obituaries, editorials, announcements, and other sections. View full images of the daily paper from 2018 to today and access full-text articles from 1990 to the current issue. Create alerts for specific search criteria, read and listen to articles, and save the items to your account.

Newsbank America's News
Discover 3,500+ newspapers and newsblogs throughout the US. Format ranges from text based, web sources, and full image.

Newsbank Virginia News Sources
Showcases 75 newspapers and newsblogs throughout Virginia. Format ranges from text based, web sources, and full image.

Newsbank's America's News Magazines
48 magazine sources (text based), Some dating as far back as 1991-present.

U.S. Major Dailies
Collects the contents of five major newspapers: Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.

Virginia Chronicle (from the Library of Virginia)
Historical archive of Virginia newspapers, providing free access to full text searching and digitized images of over 4 million newspaper pages.

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Ebsco

Ebsco provides access to a collection of ebooks, electronic versions of printed books that can be viewed on a computer connected to the Internet. You will find topics such as business, investing, computers, travel and much more.

Ebsco Books mobile apps can be downloaded from your favorite app store.

Free Downloadable eBooks

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