Microforms Centre

Microforms provide access to backfiles of newspapers, collections of research reports, government documents, books and other materials in microfilm and microfiche, along with the machines for reading, printing, and digital scanning.

Self-serve printers are available at a cost of 20 cents per page, payable with your UVic Libraries Copycard.

Location: Lower Level, McPherson Library
Hours: same as McPherson Library Building

Featured Microforms Collections (e.g. ESTC & Incunabula)

Guides to the microform collections:

Complete guide to newspapers (with date ranges, locations, and holdings in print, microform, and electronic formats) held by McPherson Library:

• Newspapers (all locations)

Also see:

• CIHM (Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproduction) and Early Canadiana Online Collections (.pdf)
• Annotated Guide to Selected Historical Canadian Newspapers on Microfilm (.pdf)
• Incunabula: The Printing Revolution In Europe 1455-1500 Index
• Guide to Selected Microforms in the McPherson Library (.pdf)
• Selected Newspapers (in microform) by Place (.html)