Digests, Directories, and Indexes

Table of Contents

• News Digests (current and historical)
• Press/Advertising Directories
• Newspaper Indexes

News Digests (current and historical)

• Africa Digest [historical only]
• continued by Africa Currents [historical only]
• Asian Recorder [historical only]
• Canadian News Facts[historical only]
• The Current Digest of the Soviet Press [historical only]
• continued by The Current Digest of the (Post-Soviet) Russian Press [current and historical]
• Keesing's Contemporary Archives [historical only]
• continued by Keesing's Record of World Events [current and historical]
• Summary of World Broadcasts (BBC Monitoring Service) [historical only]
  • Part 1: the U.S.S.R.
  • Part 2: Eastern Europe
  • Part 3: the Far East
  • Part 4: The Middle East, Africa and Latin America
• View from Ottawa [historical only]
• continued by Ottawa Letter [current and historical]

Press/Advertising Directories

Current

• Benn's Media
• Canadian Advertising Rates and Data (CARDonline)
• Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media

Historical

• Alberta Newspapers, 1880-1982
• Anatomie de la Press Ethnique au Canada
• Benn's Media Directory
• Canadian Advertising Rates and Data
• The Canadian Newspaper Directory
• The Canadian Newspaper Directory, or, Advertiser's Guide
• Dauchy & Co's Popular List of Newspapers
• Ethnic Publications in Canada
• A Historical Directory of Manitoba Newspapers, 1859-1978
• Historical Directory of Newfoundland and Labrador Newspapers, 1807-1987
• Historical Directory of Saskatchewan Newspapers, 1878-1950
• Inventory of Ontario Newspapers, 1793-1986
• Newspaper Press Directory (London, Benn)
• Newspaper Press Directory (London, Mitchell)
• Nova Scotia Newspapers; A Directory and Union List, 1752-1988
• A Survey and Listing of Nova Scotia Newspapers, 1752-1957
• T.F. Wood & Co's Canadian Newspaper Directory
• The Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals, 1800-1900
• Willing's Press Guide
• W.W. Butcher's Canadian Newspaper Directory

Newspaper Indexes

Selected Examples:

• Canadian Index
• The Christian Science Monitor Index
• L'Index de L'Actualite
• Le Monde: Index
• The New York Times Index
• Times Index
• Wall Street Journal Index / Barron's Index

* Also visit Indexes to Canadian Newspapers provided by Library & Archives Canada