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It's such a shame that recent historical newspapers are closed source in this way. We could learn so much from quantitative analysis of culture if there were downloadable data or at least an API.
https://archive.org/details/sim_los-angeles-times_the-los-an...
It would be awesome if all these newspaper archives were freely available via Archive.org or a similar service. Seems strange to need a subscription to view old newspapers. Perhaps part of the fees pay for hosting costs and the work that goes into compiling so many sources and slapping a easily navigable UI on top of it, etc.
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Interesting that the newest available is from 1963.
Chronicling America is great, but as you’ve noticed it’s limited to issues that are in the public domain. It’s not just LC, the National Digital Newspaper Program[1] has been funding hundreds of libraries across all 50 USA states to make it possible since the mid-00s. Australia’s national library offers Trove[2], which has a huge collection of Australian public domain newspapers. Most of their repository is likely fu…
[1]: https://ajxs.me/blog/The_Identity_of_The_Sanctimonious_Kid.h...
[2]: https://mhnsw.au/collections/state-archives-collection/
It's such a shame that recent historical newspapers are closed source in this way. We could learn so much from quantitative analysis of culture if there were downloadable data or at least an API.
Well you can, go to your local library and look at microfiche. It's how we used to do it. Primary research. If you're lucky they may have OCR or a tagging system. If not, reels of microfiche
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Well you can, go to your local library and look at microfiche. It's how we used to do it. Primary research. If you're lucky they may have OCR or a tagging system. If not, reels of microfiche
Microfiche is a small flat sheet, microfilm is on reels. "Fiche" being French for card. The More You Know...
They seem to be competing with https://www.newspapers.com/ , which has been providing access to historical newspapers for about 10 years now. I did a few searches on OldNews.com to compare with Newspapers.com, and it seems that OldNews has a smaller database, with far fewer newspapers. It didn't contain results from a sampling of local newspapers that I tried, nor from major newspapers like the NY Times, Wall Street…
newpapers.com is $150/yr or $20/mo for unlocked content - and $90/yr or $8/mo for partially unlocked content.
Or you can pay $360/yr for Ancestry and get newspapers.com for $150/yr for unlocked - $90/yr for partially unlocked.
Or you can pay $600/yr for Ancestry and get newspapers.com at no extra charge.
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Newspapers.com is an Ancestry.com property. I'm not sure who's the larger company in terms of user base, do you know their respective sizes?
They are both around 4 milion paying users (each)
Now it's ~99% A & 1% MyH. I try MyH when I can't find something on Ancestry - generally w/o luck. Most of my MyH hits are profiles from FamilySearch (probably ones that I made).
The #1 thing anybody should be asking for here is a list of newspapers they archive. I cannot see it. The obvious competitor to these people is https://www.newspapers.com and they at least have a crude one: https://www.newspapers.com/papers . Note that the Seattle Times (and newspapers from the NW in general) are missing. Does oldnews do better here?
A LOC search for WA state showed some content on but not ST. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/newspapers/?state=Washing...