[PW] Question on periodical archives from pre-digital era

[Tina Bebbington]

My newspaper guides (for University of Victoria) list our historic subscription products (NY times (proquest), London Times, Toronto's Globe and Mail, Washington Post(proquest) and one of the US financial papers(proquest) - coverage dates are listed), and also list a handful of free historic newspapers I've managed to locate...  we're also involved in a digitization project with our main local newspaper, and also some of our region's ethnic newspapers of old - these won't be available for a year or more.

http://gateway.uvic.ca/cgi-bin/WebObjects/researchguides.woa/wa/grouped

We looked at Newspaperarchive.com but they don't do institutional subscriptions (or didn't at the time we were looking at them) - no IP authentication either, at that time. So we didn't purchase that.

I'm quite curious to see what others advise you, as if there are other freely available archives out there, I will add them to my lists.  So thanks for asking this question!

Tina Bebbington
University of Victoria



-----Original Message-----
From: project-wombat-open-bounces at lists.project-wombat.org [mailto:project-wombat-open-bounces at lists.project-wombat.org] On Behalf Of Doty, Fadia
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http://www.newspaperarchive.com/ is not free BUT some of their
collections are free to search and view (i.e. Abraham Lincoln Newspaper
Archive).

Fadia Doty, Sr. Library Asst.
San Joaquin Valley Information Service


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Of Erica Cathers
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Subject: [PW] Question on periodical archives from pre-digital era

This is for me, so no rush.

Does anyone know of a comprehensive list of newspapers and magazines
which
provide very old full-text articles in digital format, preferably free?

So far, I know of Time magazine (archives online back to 1923, free),
New
York Times (as far back as 1851, some free), The New Yorker (can
purchase a
disk that goes back to 1925), and Atlantic Monthly (back to 1857 online,
for
a fee).

We only have our local newspaper on microfilm, and mainly depend on
EbscoHost for other periodical back issues--but that doesn't go back far

enough for what our students need for history projects sometimes.

TIA,
Erica Cathers
Gloucester City (NJ) Public Library

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