Wikipedia talk:List of online newspaper archives

What about UK ones?
What about UK ones?--Darrelljon 11:56, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

I added some links outside the US (including some UK ones) and changed the structure a little. There are many projects going on as we speak, so the list will probably grow imensly in the future. --JJ-Hammer 12:43, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Add anything you can find.
Add anything you can find. Its sad the the US Library of Congress has been talking about doing this for 5 years, and so far all I see are several white papers discussing the project. Should we include news magazines? --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 17:00, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

types of publications
Many online archives do not distinguish beteeen types of publications at all. The Icelandic part of the VESTNORD projects includes Alþingisbókin which - I think - is Icelandic parliamentary protocols and the Faroese part includes Færöernes Kundgörelsessamling and Føroya kunngerðasavn A og B which are annual gazette colletions or official announcements of legal rules. I am also considering adding Løgtingstíðindi, which is an annual publication of Faroese matters of parliament.

Given the broad spectrum
Given the broad spectrum of content of many of the archives it is hard to justify any narrow definiton of the content in this list. For the time being I suggest including everything. But when the list has grown somewhat it could be devided into several lists with different content. When such a division is being done, many of the online archives should probably be included several lists due to the broad spectrum of their content.

prepare for such a future division
We could prepare for such a future division by supplying every entry with predefined keywords describing the types of publications included in that particular archive. That would make also it easier for reasearchers to find good texts for their research. I suggest the keywords newspapers, news magazines, gazettes, parliamentary protocols and the obvious other or other publications.--JJ-Hammer 14:44, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Hong Kong added. DOR (HK) (talk) 06:05, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

British-Pathé news clips archive
Would it be suitable to put the British-Pathé news clips archive here? Website is here. Is there a Wikipedia namespace page where such resources are also listed? Carcharoth (talk) 06:44, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

This article needs better focus - perhaps even deletion
After a quick look (New York for example), many of the links are to, for example, college and subject-specific publications. These are not, IMHO, relevant to traditional "newspapers" which are, I think, the article subject. Nor, while the subject may be a useful one, am I confident that it is Wikipedia "encyclopedic". Wikipedia shouldn't be in the business of developing reference lists as article subjects. Comments? JakeInJoisey (talk) 19:29, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I disagree in deleting it. I also have to state an opinion here, since you brought up encyclopedic rules. There are a bazillion articles here at Wikipedia that lack encyclopedic content. Some have even, shockingly, been featured articles. The thing is, this is supposed to be a site which invites participation from everyone. If that is the case, then new ideas facilitate change. If Wikipedia users desire articles like this, then they should be written and never removed. As for magazines being added to a page titled newspapers, then perhaps it would be best to change the name to archived periodicals. MagnoliaSouth (talk) 19:10, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Incredibly poor article, but I don't have the heart nor the time to fight for its deletion. For me, it is best to try to manage that it doesn't become complete nonsense. BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 17:19, 21 December 2016 (UTC)

Sortable Table
I think this would be much more useful if this were reformatted to reflect Wikipedia's table sorting. I suppose I could do it, but this is quite time consuming. Anyone want to help? We could create a template and follow it. MagnoliaSouth (talk) 19:10, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Directory
Inasmuch as this is just a long list or directory of external links, does it really belong on Wikipedia? --FeldBum (talk) 15:21, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
 * No, it doesn't. BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 17:20, 21 December 2016 (UTC)

Split?
This page is very long, which may make it hard to use by people with slow internet (particularly those in Third World countries). Perhaps we can split out the U.S. stuff into a subpage? bd2412 T 14:03, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

Google News Archive No Longer Active
Many of the links point to google news archive. Google has closed this service, none of the papers they once held are available any longer. 67.0.84.225 (talk) 01:46, 19 September 2013 (UTC)


 * I know this is a very late response, but news.google.com/newspapers has continued to function, albeit with a somewhat limited interface that makes it much harder to zero in to desired time frames, and with a dysfunctional 'advanced search help' that is useless. The biggest change was that, for unknown reasons, Google removed a very handy timeline feature.  However, I stumbled on a link that makes it possible to bring back some of the lost functionality.  To do this, you can visit https://books.google.com/advanced_book_search (which actually can search not just books, but magazines and newspapers as well.)  On that page you'll find a range of selection critieria, including a way to limit your searches to newspapers only, and (very importantly) it has a date range limiter. It's still not as good a newspaper search interface as the one we lost years ago, but it's better than nothing. — Itsfullofstars (talk) 16:43, 25 June 2021 (UTC)

Suggestion: Removing "Free" - only marking "Pay" sites as such
I've been going through this list and trying to turn it from listcruft into something more manageable (ie, only original sourced links only - not to individual newspapers which are a part of a collection, if possible - and have been noticing an abundance of "Free" archives over "Pay" archives. I'm all for the idea that we should summarise this as "All sites are linked to freely accessible archives, except where otherwise noted." - all in favour? -Gohst (talk) 00:45, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

Move to mainspace?
Hello, Just passing through, but I'm curious, Why not move this list to mainspace? Thanks, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 16:58, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
 * It started out there, but was moved after this discussion. 2610:130:101:500:C0E7:5324:C61F:4700 (talk) 16:52, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

Other US small town paper sources?
I remember that was able to access a much better (more comprehensive) source for US small town papers than smalltownpapers.com. I can't remember what exactly it was. I sort of suspect it was via stparchive.com, and that this has been dismantled or sold off or something. But maybe it was something else. It's a shame, because I was trying to recreate some research I did a while ago, and I can't seem to find the sources I used originally. Any advice in re free small town paper archives would be welcome. Dingsuntil (talk) 22:26, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

US stuff on separate page ...
... make the rest better browsable. Oalexander (talk) 10:50, 15 November 2017 (UTC)

Cherry Hill Courier Post link broken
the link for Cherry Hill Courier Post is broken, don't know where to find a replacement Chriscush765 (talk) 22:39, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Title
The See also section of the article Online newspaper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_newspaper#See_also includes List of online newspaper archives which redirects to this article. Why was the title changed? Mcljlm (talk) 03:49, 26 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Because of Articles for deletion/List of online newspaper archives. Nemo 08:15, 27 March 2022 (UTC)

New York Times
Is the listing of "Historical Index to the New York Times, 1851–1922" in #88.1 England (under Historical Newspapers index) a mistake? It also appears to be listed in #89.33 New York (under Old Fulton New York Post Cards which currently follows West Troy Advocate). "The New York Times; (1851–1980)" is listed separately. Mcljlm (talk) 02:39, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Austria
"cities which are now in Germany (but were once in Austria)" – AFAIK such cities do not exist. The site contains many newspapers from cities that have always been outside Austria, but had some relevance for Austria. Other such cities were once part of the Habsburg empire (Austria/Hungary/Bohemia and annexed areas) and are now in Hungary, Czech Republic etc. --88.67.124.242 (talk) 19:42, 13 August 2023 (UTC)

pow homecoming korea ricardo lavendar villanueva, lincoln heights parade
My Father, Ricardo Lavendar Villanueva, a pow in Korea, released 1953, was in a parade in Lincoln Heights, his hometown, there ia a newspaper clipping, he is home and smiling 2603:8000:D500:2407:FE59:6ACB:4DCC:5408 (talk) 00:07, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

"List of online newspaper archives" listed at Redirects for discussion
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