News, Newspapers, and Magazines
Access some of the best-selling digital magazines with Flipster. Flipster makes it easy to read your favorites, either on your internet browser or via mobile device app. Titles include: Bloomberg Businessweek, Forbes, Kiplinger Retirement Report, People, Time, and many more.
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Using Flipster at the Northbrook Public Library
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The premier collection of newspaper and funeral home obituaries and death notices with coverage dating back to the 1700s across all U.S. states, territories and the District of Columbia.
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Get seven days of unlimited access to more than 100 popular magazines. Titles include Us Weekly, Good Housekeeping, Prevention, Cosmopolitan, Reader's Digest, In Touch, TIME, and much more.
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Using Hoopla at the Northbrook Public Library
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Courtesy of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections help users locate the Illinois newspapers they need. Search the newspaper directory and discover which institutions throughout the state have access to titles in print or on microfilm.
Learn more through the IDNC FAQ
Access over 12 million journal articles, books, images and primary sources, plus public domain and open access content across 75 disciplines.
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Access over 100 full-text journals and magazines, primary sources, books, newspapers and videos on LGBTQ+ studies, including an LGBTQ+ thesaurus of over 9,000 terms. (Select titles may either be viewed via internet browser or as downloadable PDFs)
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Libby offers thousands of eMagazines on internet browsers or on mobile devices that support the Libby App.
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Using Libby at the Northbrook Public Library
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Coverage includes:
> Full-text from 1985-1996
> Full-text from 1996-current
> Full-text of Online Edition from 2017-current
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The National Geographic Society, one of the world’s largest nonprofit educational and scientific organizations, has published the iconic National Geographic Magazine since its founding in 1888.
Coverage includes:
> 1888-1994 (Courtesy of Gale Virtual Library)
> August 2021-current (Courtesy of Libby)
Using Libby at the Northbrook Public Library
Full-text from 1988-current
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