Wikipedia:WikiProject Newspapers/Research/South Carolina

The purpose of this page, along with the companion WikiProject Newspapers Research, is to support creating and improving Wikipedia articles about South Carolina newspapers. Here, we collect bibliographic information (for footnotes) and notes about source materials that can support composing these articles. These source materials generally include books, academic journal articles, and news articles about South Carolina journalism and newspapers.

Any newspaper with an entry in at least one of these resources is likely to be notable enough to merit a Wikipedia article.

Please feel free to edit this page to make it more useful! It's just a start, there are surely many other excellent source materials for information about South Carolina newspapers.

General search techniques
Try searching newspaper databases for the names of newspapers or for journalism-related topics. While some newspaper archives are on the open Internet, the most useful articles are often in paywalled or specialized databases. Several options are:
 * The Internet Archive
 * The Internet Archive stores digitized copies of many books and newspapers, available for free or to borrow with a free account. But to find these contents, you need to use the Internet Archive's own search function; external search engines like Google or Bing will not reveal most of its contents.


 * newspapers.com: a paid subscription. Subscriptions are available free for veteran Wikipedians through the WP:Wikipedia Library program.
 * Your university library or local public library: You probably have the ability to log into databases of newspaper archives through your library.
 * The "Chronicling America" program of the U.S. Library of Congress: This program partners with libraries and universities in each state to digitize historical newspapers.
 * List of newspapers digitized by Google News

Online databases
These sites do little to establish notability and may not meet the threshold of a reliable source, but they may be useful in conjunction with other reference materials.
 * Historical Newspapers. South Carolina State Library list of Historical Newspapers
 * Historical Newspapers of South Carolina. University of South Carolina Libraries list of Historical Newspapers of South Carolina
 * OfficialUSA page on South Carolina newspapers
 * ABYZ page on South Carolina newspapers
 * mondotimes.com