Print and microform
Locate current and back issues of print newspapers held in storage. The PJRC maintains a list of these newspapers and can retrieve material for consultation in our library on the 3rd floor of Robarts Library. Contact the Petro Jacyk Central & East European Resource Centre (PJRC) (3rd floor, Robarts Library) at 416-978-0588.
Discover the University of Toronto Library's holdings of historical newspapers from Central and Eastern Europe:
- In the guide Newspapers from Central and Eastern Europe in the University of Toronto Library (2008); and
- in the guide Peter Jacyk Collection of Ukrainian Serials (1983), which covers Austrian Galician newspapers in Ukrainian, Carpatho-Rusyn, Hungarian, and German. This information has been updated and greatly expanded in the guide Newspapers and Journals from Western Ruthenian-Ukrainian Lands, 1848-1944, by Nadia Zavorotna (Chair of Ukrainian Studies, University of Toronto, 2023), available in print in the PJRC.
Online
Search and explore current newspapers through the following databases:
- Russian Central Newspapers (UDB-COM)
- Baltics, Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine Newspapers (UDB-EUR)
- Central Asia and Caucasus Newspapers (UDB-CAC)
- Crimean Newspapers (UDB-CRIM)
- Ukrainian Publications (UDB-UKR)
Access online individual newspapers from the Soviet Union, Russia, Ukraine, and Central Asia:
- Demokratychna Ukraina (Kyiv, 1992-2020)
- Gudok (Moscow, 1918-present)
- Holos Ukrainy (Kyiv, 1991-2023)
- Izvestiia (Moscow, 1917-present)
- Kavkaz (Tbilisi, 1846-1918)
- Literaturnaia gazeta (Moscow, 1929-present)
- Pravda (St. Petersburg, 1912-present)
- Moscow News (1930-2014)
- Nedelia (Moscow, 1960-1999)
- Novoe Russkoe Slovo (New York, 1917-2010)
- Slovo Kyrgystana and predecessor titles (Bishkek, 1925-2020)
- Sovetskaia Kultura (1929-present)
- Za vilnu Ukrainu (Lviv, 1990-2007)
The Center for Research Libraries (CRL), in partnership with the vendor East View Information Services (EVIS), has made many historical newspapers available online either to the public or to its members. These collections include:
- Imperial Russian Newspapers, a collection chronicling 189 years of Russian history, from Peter I's founding of the Russian empire, through the empire’s expansion during the reign of Catherine II, the abolishment of serfdom by Alexander II, the tumultuous years of Nicholas II, and everything in between.
- Post-Perestroika Newspapers, 1984-2022, a collection that traces the evolution of post-Soviet Russia, with coverage beginning in the mid-1980s and extending well into the twenty-first century.
- Local and Independent Ukrainian Newspapers, 1989-2001, a collection of over 900 titles, including local newspapers from over 340 cities and towns from each of Ukraine’s 27 regions.
- Soviet-era Ukrainian Newspapers, a collection of five newspapers published in Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Lviv between 1899-1939.
English-language news digests include:
- Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports (1941-1996)
- Current Digest of the Soviet, Post-Soviet and Russian Press (1949-present).
The East Coast Consortium of Slavic Library Collections, of which the University of Toronto is a member, maintains a country-by-country guide of open access historical news sources from Russia, Eurasia, and Eastern Europe.
Also useful is the UTL library guide to finding and searching current and historical newspapers across Canada, the United States, and the world.
