Comments on: Online Digital Newspaper Archives for History Research

By: wendy

wendy — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:20:02 +0000

Does anyone know any good books / guides for techniques on researching newspaper archives which have not been digitised? My daughter needs to search some Austrian archives for reviews of performances by a particular composer and is dreading having to read through hundreds of newspapers to find one or two reviews thanks!

By: pafalafaga

pafalafaga — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 21:14:21 +0000

Thanks for the note, Professor.

You’ll probably be interested in a collection I’ve pieced together of online newspaper archives that are all available at no charge. The diversity of coverage — geographic, chronological and topical — is pretty impressive.

You can see the US state and regional archvies here:

http://xooxleanswers.com/newspaperarchives4.aspx

and be sure to visit the pages for college newspapers, international news, magazines, and the other links on the Newspaper Archives pages.

Cheers,

David

By: Nigel Sellars

Nigel Sellars — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:13:01 +0000

As a history professor, I’ve found Newspaperarchive.com incredibly useful. Through I I’ve located material for two book-length projects I’m working on.

The main problem many people have with the site seems to be viewing the files, which is, I suspect, the result of their not having a PDF plug-in on their browser. I’ve used both Safari and Firefox and have had excellent results once I installed the newest plug-in. Firefox have plug-ins that allow you to download the file, view it in the browser, or view it in a standalone program like Adobe Reader or Mac Preview.

So I’d say don’t trash the company if your system isn’t up to snuff.

By: Dave Brown

Dave Brown — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 04:53:29 +0000

As far as I can tell the Newspaperarchive.com site is a complete fraud. They took my money but haven’t provided access to a single article. They’ve failed to respond to any of my inquiries to fix the problem. I’ve contacted not only customer service, but higher-ups in the company as well. No one ever responds. I cannot recommend this service to anyone.