Historical Newspapers Online

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Historical Newspapers Online

• 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?

Mat Andrews, Reference Librarian, Bodleian Library
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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, Reynoldss Newspaper, Jacksons 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

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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

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

• Kossuth
• Otmoor

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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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Any Questions?
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Oxford Librarian! http//www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/ask Or
ask at the central Bodleian Main Enquiry Desk.