Philadelphia Inquirer articles from the past seven days are available free at Philly.com. You can search Philly.com for articles as far back as 1981, but you must pay to access the actual full-text articles. Obituaries are kept online for one year and are free to access.

You can access full-text articles back to 2000 through JerseyClicks--and it's free. Click on Custom Search, then on the next page clear  all checkmarks. Click to put a checkmark just next to Infotrac Custom Newspapers. Enter your search terms in the form at the top, being sure to also enter Philadelphia Inquirer in the Publication Name box.

News Library includes the Philadelphia Inquirer from 1981. Searching is free, but there is a cost to access the full-text articles. Once registered, you may save searches, your search history and articles all in one place.

The public may access full-text articles (no images) without charge at Rutgers' Robeson Library in Camden and Camden County Library in Voorhees back to 1981 through the Newsbank database.

 Camden County Library also has the paper on microfilm back to 1973, with paper indexes for 1979 and 1980.

The Free Library of Philadelphia has the Philadelphia Inquirer back to 1860 on microfilm, and indexes are available for some  years.

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