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

[Tiar, Marc]

We have an institutional subscription to newspaperarchive.com with IP
authentication, so they do it now.  Very useful for old digital copies
of our local (Reno, NV) newspaper, but we don't use it much for anything
but that.  Their coverage is pretty varied.  Lots of small towns,
sometimes odd choices of what's included and what's not, and lots of
gaps in coverage for the newspapers they do have.  Sort of hit or miss,
but better than the alternative for us, which is nothing.

Marc T.
Washoe County Library

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Tina Bebbington
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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



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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
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 11:19 AM
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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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