Correct Method of Linking to The Globe and Mail Articles Thread | Site suggestions | Discussion forum

Many people link to The Globe & Mail articles hosted directly on the Globe's website, most of which are paywalled. Copying and pasting more than 10% of the characters in an article would be considered illegal.

So, I thought I'd start this thread for how to correctly and legally link to full-text versions of Globe articles.

1. From your public library's electronic resources index webpage, find Canadian Newstream
2. Open up Canadian Newstream, login with your library card, and click on "Publications"
3. From there, search for Globe & Mail
4. There you should see multiple publications, one usually for each province or region and one for 'online'. It doesn't really matter which province or region you select, unless the article was only published in that region's edition. The 'online' edition is for any paywalled article not published in print (i.e., born-digital articles and blog posts)
5. Find the issue and article, then click on the 'copy URL' button to get the permalink. If your library's EZproxy stanza is prepended to the permalink, you can remove that, as removing it should trigger the user to the ProQuest institutional login page anyway, where users can login with their own library credentials and then be redirected back to the article

You can also directly navigate to The Globe and Mail Online at:

https://www.proquest.com/canadiannews/publication/4570024?accountid=46602&decadeSelected=2020+-+2029&yearSelected=2024&monthSelected=12&daySelected=&timeSelected=&issueNameSelected=02024Y12Y27$23Dec+27,+2024

Or, for the Ontario edition:

https://www.proquest.com/canadiannews/publication/46323?accountid=46602&decadeSelected=2020+-+2029&yearSelected=2024&monthSelected=12&daySelected=&timeSelected=&issueNameSelected=02024Y12Y27$23Dec+27,+2024

You can also do the same with PressReader, but the formatting on PressReader articles are not as nice for readability purposes.

Canadian Newsstream is similar to Canadian Major Dailies, also from ProQuest, but Canadian Major Dailies is typically the version sold to academic libraries. Since nearly everyone who is a resident of a Canadian local government jurisdiction should be eligible for a public library card for free, it makes sense to use Canadian Newsstream.

Public libraries pay large sums of your dollars to electronic database providers who, in turn, license content from companies like The Globe & Mail. We don't need to perpetuate those same content suppliers in 'double-dipping' by trying to force people to purchase expensive individual subscriptions.

Cheers,
Doug