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Newspapers and Magazines

Access over 2,000 popular full-text magazines and journals covering virtually every subject area.

Get free, unlimited access to The New York Times website and mobile app, including News, Games, Cooking, Wirecutter, and The Athletic, when you are connected to our WiFi (NPL Public). To activate, you’ll need to register for a free NYTimes.com account with your email address or log into an existing account. 

Get free 24-hour access to the The New York Times digital edition, including News, Games, Cooking, Wirecutter, and The Athletic. Click here to log in using your library card number. 

Tutorials to help become more comfortable using eBooks apps, language learning tools, streaming movies, and research databases as well as social media tutorials for Facebook, Linked-In, Goodreads, Twitter, etc.

The Northbrook Star from 1996-present. Digital editions from December 2020 - present.

Contains full-text articles from over 3000 publications covering a variety of subjects like the arts, sciences, and the law

Get unlimited access to 7,000 daily newspapers and magazines from around the world in more than 60 languages. You can either read them in a browser or use the PressReader app for iOS and Android. Follow these steps to create a new account with your Northbrook Public Library card:

1. Go to Pressreader.com, then click "Sign In," and select "Library or Group"
2. Search for "Northbrook" and choose it from the drop-down list
3. Enter the number printed on your library card together with your PIN/password. (If you don't know your password, visit www.northbrook.info/account and select the "Forgot your password" link.)

Find full-text articles in scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, blogs, and websites.

Access the Chicago Tribune, L.A. Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post from the 80s through the present.