Historical Newspapers Online

Mat Andrews, Reference Librarian, Bodleian Library

• Which historical newspapers are now available to Oxford University online in full-text?• Are there any other resources to help research using newspapers?• How can I make the most of these newspapers in my research?

Full-text newspapers via OxLIP• 18th Century Journals II contains issues of 17 British newspaper titles from the University of Texas including the York Chronicle and London Journal

•19th Century British Library Newspapers contains issues of 48 British newspapers from the British Library including The Daily News, Pall Mall Gazette, Reynolds’s Newspaper, Jackson’s Oxford Journal

•Chronicling America contains issues from 1897-1910 of 50 American newspaper titles including the New York Tribune and the Washington Times

•Proquest American historical newspapers includes the Chicago Defender 1905-1975, New York Times 1851-2004, Washington Post 1877-1990

•The Times Digital Archive 1785-1985

•The Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003

•The Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive 1902-1990

Why online newspapers?

•Indexes newspapers for which there was previously no indexing

•Find material which would not have been indexed (advertising material, minor references within an article)

•Articles and pages can be easily printed off or saved for future reference

Online searching

Subject searching – full text or citation/abstract or keyword/relevance

•Kossuth

•Otmoor

Other online search tools

Archives as indexes:The Guardian/The Observer : http://www.guardian.co.uk/archive The Scotsman: http://archive.scotsman.com/The Jewish Chronicle: http://www.thejc.com (then select Archives option on left of screen)The Irish Times: http://www.ireland.com/search/

Online newspaper reference works for finding relevant newspapers:•Chronicling America Newspaper Directory includes 140,000 bibliographic records for American newspapers from 1690 to the present•Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals, 1800-1900 includes bibliographic details of approximately 1500 newspapers, and allows some subject searching

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