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

[Elizabeth L. Brown]

It's still in BETA, but you might also wish to check out "Chronicling 
America: Historic American Newspapers" at 
http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/ .

 From the site:
"Welcome to Chronicling America, enhancing access to America's 
historic newspapers. This site allows you to search and read 
newspaper pages from 1900-1910 and find information about American 
newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is 
sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and 
the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper 
Program (NDNP)."

The links to "Search Newspaper Pages" (on the left) or "READ 
Newspaper Pages" half-way down the center will take you to a search 
screen that will get you to full-text of 50-60 titles at present.

The links to "Search Newspaper Directory" or "FIND Information 
About..." take you to information about many, many more titles, 
including who holds them.

I hope this is helpful.

Elizabeth Brown
Digital Reference Team
The Library of Congress

.At 02:18 PM 1/2/2008, you wrote:
>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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