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December 22, 2005Washington Post Extending Its Free Archives
Washingtonpost.com has announced that they're expanding their free digital archives from 14 days to 60 days effective immediately. Awesome! They still have paid archives going back to 1877. Unfortunately the Washington Post's advanced archive search doesn't appear to have read...
Continue reading "Washington Post Extending Its Free Archives" » August 18, 2005Presentations from Digitizing Historic Newspapers: A Practical Approach
Several presentations from the Digitizing Historic Newspapers: A Practical Approach conference are available online. The presentations in the one-day conference were divided into several broad categories, including Technical Issues and Options, Approaches to Funding, and Copyright Considerations. Most of the...
Continue reading "Presentations from Digitizing Historic Newspapers: A Practical Approach" » April 20, 2005Old Copies of Salt Lake Tribune Going Online
Copies of the Salt Lake Tribune from the 1870s are now available online, with plans afoot to put papers from the 1880s and 1890s online as well. You can read all about the plans at http://www.sltrib.com/ci_2655500, but you can read...
Continue reading "Old Copies of Salt Lake Tribune Going Online" » April 04, 2005Scotsman Expands Archive to 1950, Makes Free Offer
The Scotsman launched a new digital archived a while ago, which was covered in ResearchBuzz in December. But now they've expanded the archive and announced a free offer for folks in the US and Canada. Before the archive covered from...
Continue reading "Scotsman Expands Archive to 1950, Makes Free Offer" » March 07, 2005Jamaica Gleaner Archives Available Online
The Jamaica Gleaner has announced ( http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20050228/lead/lead2.html ) that their archives are now available online. Their archives go back to 1834 -- that's over 170 years of archives. Whew. You can get to them by logging on to http://gleaner.newspaperarchive.com ....
Continue reading "Jamaica Gleaner Archives Available Online" » February 25, 2005An Index of Mad Magazine Covers
It's hard to believe that you used to be able to go to the Fast Fare and buy Cracked, Crazy, and Mad magazine at the same time. It's been ages since I've read any of them, so it was a...
January 25, 2005Five Years Worth of Boing Boing
Boing Boing is celebrating their anniversary by releasing all five years worth of their content -- over 17,000 entries -- in Movable Type export format. Isn't that great? You can download it from http://www.boingboing.net/2005/01/21/five_years_worth_of_.html . There are some wonderful links...
January 24, 2005A Collection of Digitized Books About Books
Oak Knoll Press has put together a collection of digital books about -- books. These books cover bookbinding, collecting, design, illustration, etc. The collection is free and available at http://www.oakknoll.com/digitalbooks.php . Some of the books appear to be hosted by...
Continue reading "A Collection of Digitized Books About Books" » December 31, 2004This Is True Puts Its Archives Online
I've been reading This Is True for ages. It's a free weekly newsletter (a paid version is also available) that contains summaries of odd or unusual news stories that have taken place all over the world. If you want to...
December 22, 2004TIME Magazine Archives Now Available on TIME.com
TIME magazine has now made its 81 years of archives available, over 266,000 articles. The archives have their own domain at http://www.timearchive.com . The archive is keyword and date-searchable, with an additional search for covers. A search for "Jimmy Carter"...
Continue reading "TIME Magazine Archives Now Available on TIME.com" » Argus Digital Collection Indexed from 1894-2003
I love it when someone submits a resource and I ask them to submit it again when it's a little further along and they actually DO -- over a year later! Illinois Wesleyan University's newspaper, The Argus, has been published...
Continue reading "Argus Digital Collection Indexed from 1894-2003" » November 22, 2004NEH Announces Mass Newspaper Digitzation Project
The National Endowment for the Humanities has announced a massive project with the Library of Congress -- the National Digital Newspaper Program . This program will digitize tens of millions of historical newspaper pages and make them available online. The...
Continue reading "NEH Announces Mass Newspaper Digitzation Project" » October 11, 2004New York Times Launches Photo Archives
The New York Times has launched a photo archives at http://www.nytimes.com/nytstore/photos/index.html . And while it's really set up as a store, it's still a lot of fun to just browse. The photo archives are searchable by keyword or browsable by...
August 02, 2004Toronto Star Archives Available; 1945 Free
The Toronto Star has digitized its archives -- 1892-2001 -- and made them available online in a searchable archive. And while you have to pay to search the whole thing (you can buy subscriptions for five hours, 48 hours, or...
Continue reading "Toronto Star Archives Available; 1945 Free" » June 08, 2004Whoopee! FindArticles Now Offering Serious Search Syntax
For a long time I have had a love-hate relationship with FindArticles. On one hand I loved the idea of a huge collection of magazine articles. On the other hand the fact that you couldn't sort results by date, couldn't...
Continue reading "Whoopee! FindArticles Now Offering Serious Search Syntax" » June 02, 2004ProQuest and NYTimes Offering New York Times Archive Back to 1851
ProQuest and the New York Times have teamed up to offer a digital archive of the NYT, back to 1851, directly to the consumer market. The archive will be accessible via the NYT's Web site ( http://www.nytimes.com/1851archive ) on a...
Continue reading "ProQuest and NYTimes Offering New York Times Archive Back to 1851" » December 12, 2003New York Times Offers Article Archives from 1851-1995
The New York Times is now offering a complete article archive from September 1851 to December 1995. That's more than fifteen million articles. You can start your search at http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nytimes/advancedsearch.html . Searching is free. You can search the full text,...
Continue reading "New York Times Offers Article Archives from 1851-1995" » November 27, 2003FindArticles Updates
I don't use FindArticles very often, and when I dropped by the other day I thought it looked a little different. An Internet.com article ( http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?e104730209&e=6517 ) confirmed my suspicions; FindArticles ( http://www.findarticles.com ) has been updated. If you're not...
November 10, 2003Northwest History Database Collects Clippings
The Northwest History Database, at http://content.wsulibs.wsu.edu/pncc/pncc.htm , does contain newspaper clippings. In fact the database contains over 19,000 newspaper clippings from the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Clippings Collection. But there's additional information here as well; specifically federal and state documents, laws,...
Continue reading "Northwest History Database Collects Clippings" » September 10, 2003117 Years of Sporting News Archives To Go Online
The St. Louis Business Journal is reporting ( stlouis.bizjournals.com/stlouis/stories/2003/09/08/daily33.html ) that Cold North Wind will be putting the archives of The Sporting News on its Web site. The archives will be available for a fee and will be accessible on...
Continue reading "117 Years of Sporting News Archives To Go Online" » September 02, 2003Seattle Times Offers Free Archives to 1990
The Seattle Times has expanded its free newspaper archives back to 1990. Using the archive does require registration, but searching and viewing stories is free. You'll need to register at the Seattle Times, which you can do at http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/register/Register.pl ....
Continue reading "Seattle Times Offers Free Archives to 1990" » August 25, 2003BBC To Put Huge Archive Online
Wow. The Independent ( http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/media/story.jsp?story=436915 ) is one of the many places reporting that the BBC is planning to put a giant television and radio archive online. This project will be called the BBC Creative Archive. According to the BBC's...
June 03, 2003The First 62 Years of the Brooklyn Eagle Newspaper Available
The Brooklyn Public Library has set up a digitized archive of the first 62 years of the Brooklyn Eagle, a leading newspaper of the borough of Brooklyn in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The site is located at...
Continue reading "The First 62 Years of the Brooklyn Eagle Newspaper Available" » March 11, 2003New Newsreel Database
Can't get enough of newsreels and cinemagazine stories published in the UK between 1910 and 1979? Of course you can't. That's why you need the British Universities Newsreel Database at http://www.bufvc.ac.uk/newsreels . This site contains 160,000 records of British...
December 02, 2002National Geographic Unveils Online Digital Image Collection
I was going to cover this last week, but I could never get onto the site. It loaded up like a charm this morning, though. So. National Geographic has unveiled a collection of thousands of digital images at http://www.ngsimages.com/ ....
Continue reading "National Geographic Unveils Online Digital Image Collection" » November 19, 2002British Pathe Adds Sixty Years of Newsreels To Their Site
British Plathe has put up sixty years worth of "newsreels" -- news bulletins which played in theatres -- on its Web site. The newsreels date from 1910 to 1970 and total over 3,500 hours. You can access them at http://www.britishpathe.com/...
Continue reading "British Pathe Adds Sixty Years of Newsreels To Their Site" » July 31, 2002ProQuest Digitizes Wall Street Journal Backfile
ProQuest has announced ( http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/020731/nyw071_1.html ) the completion of their Wall Street Journal digitization project. The backfile goes from 1889-1985 and includes more than five million articles. As with other ProQuest digitization projects, the backfile includes not only the articles,...
Continue reading "ProQuest Digitizes Wall Street Journal Backfile" » July 23, 2002New York Times Launches Multimedia Section
The New York Times has launched a multimedia section at http://www.nytimes.com/multimedia/ . Materials at the site include a "Photographer's Journal," a Flash feature that blends photos and narration, "Album Showcase," which features New York Times critics discussing audio clips from...
Continue reading "New York Times Launches Multimedia Section" » July 10, 2002Really Early Journals
Looking for 18th and 19th century journals? Check out The Internet Library of Early Journals at http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/ . This site is a joint project by the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford. The goal is to digitize "substantial runs"...
June 24, 2002Pubs With Free Archives On The -- NOT
Last week I did a newsbit called "Pubs with Free Archives On the Web." (At http://www.researchbuzz.com/news/2002/jun13jun1902.shtml#pubswith ). I was alerted last week that the page I linked to was actually a private page (for subscribers only) that was made publicly...
April 25, 2002100 Years Of Popular Mechanics Covers
Take it from me, mechanical aptitude is not required to enjoy Popular Mechanics. It's one of my favorite airport magazines. The eye-catching covers of Popular Mechanics have been gathered into one gallery at http://popularmechanics.com/albums/index.phtml , with over 1200 magazine covers...
April 01, 2002MyFamily Creates Historical Newspaper Database
MyFamily.com announced last week the creation of The Ancestry Historical Newspaper collection. This collection currently consists of 150,000 pages from several different newspapers from 1851 through 1923; MyFamily is planning to add twenty thousand pages a week for an eventual...
Continue reading "MyFamily Creates Historical Newspaper Database" » March 26, 2002Kyodo News to Launch Photo Service on April 1
Kyodo News will launch an English-language photo service on April 1 (the Japanese-language version of the service was launched in February.) The service will allow users to search 400,000 photos with Japanese captions from the Kyodo News since 1993. There...
Continue reading "Kyodo News to Launch Photo Service on April 1" » March 13, 2002Editorial Cartoon Database Available at GALILEO
Clifford Baldowski donated more than 7,000 cartoons to the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies at the University of Georgia before his death. 2,500 of the cartoons are now available online at http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/baldy.html . The cartoons cover...
Continue reading "Editorial Cartoon Database Available at GALILEO" » January 31, 2002Cold North Wind Blowing About Huge Newspaper Archive
Cold North Wind and the National Newspaper Association have agreed to create America's Chronicles, which will be an online search engine the accesses the digital archives of America's community newspapers. They'll start with the 3600 NNA member newspapers. Cold North...
Continue reading "Cold North Wind Blowing About Huge Newspaper Archive" » November 21, 2001Toronto Star Database Made Available by Micromedia
The Toronto Star and Micromedia Limited have teamed up to create a digitized version of The Toronto Star archives. The archives go back to January 1, 1894, and contain over 30,000 issues and over 1.9 million pages. The archives are...
Continue reading "Toronto Star Database Made Available by Micromedia" » September 10, 2001Small Town Papers Available in Their Entirety Online
In the same vein as the New York Times project I reported on last week, here's SmallTownPapers.com at http://www.smalltownpapers.com/ . This site takes small town papers, scans them in, and puts them online in GIF files. As you might expect,...
Continue reading "Small Town Papers Available in Their Entirety Online" » May 16, 2001Bell & Howell Adds Washington Post to Digitization Spree
or something. Anyway, B&H has announced that they're planning to digitize over 120 years' worth of The Washington Post -- all the way back to December 6, 1877. The archives, which will be released over the next two years...
Continue reading "Bell & Howell Adds Washington Post to Digitization Spree" » April 09, 2001NEC Unveils ResearchIndex Library of Computer Science Articles
The NEC Research Institute has launched the ResearchIndex ( http://www.researchindex.org/), its free research library of 300,000+ computer science articles. The search box is straightforward with one exception: two words next to each other are treated as a phrase, even if...
Continue reading "NEC Unveils ResearchIndex Library of Computer Science Articles" » March 07, 2001Christian Science Monitor To Be Scanned and Put Online
Bell & Howell's Information and Learning unit and The Christian Science Monitor have announced their intention to scan all of the CSM's back issues -- all the way back to 1908 -- and put them online through the ProQuest online...
Continue reading "Christian Science Monitor To Be Scanned and Put Online" » New York Post To Put 200 Years of Archives Online
The New York Post has teamed up with Cold North Wind to digitize and publish the archives of the New York Post on the Internet. The Post was founded in 1801 and is the oldest continuously-published daily paper in the...
Continue reading "New York Post To Put 200 Years of Archives Online" » February 23, 2000Network Fusion Undergoes Research-Friendly Facelift
Network Fusion's new research area ( http://www.nwfusion.com/re search/index.html ) features search engines for specific technologies. Look at the technologies page. You'll see a list of technology topics there -- click on a topic and you'll find news, software, research, etc....
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