List of online newspaper archives

This is a list of free and pay wall blocked digital online newspaper archives. Most were scanned from microfilm and stored in gif or similar format until converted to text with OCR. The OCR in most cases is used to create the index of searchable text, but some newspapers don't allow access to the OCR-converted text until it has been proof-read. Older newspapers are still in image format, and newer newspaper are available as full text that can be cut and pasted. Most text is in ASCII, some are using Unicode for diacritical marks not available in ASCII. Google now indexes many newspaper archives.

Australia

* [http://ndpbeta.nla.gov.au Historic Australian Newspapers Beta] 1803 - 1954 "(Free)"

Austria

* [http://anno.onb.ac.at/ Austrian Newspapers Online]
* [http://www.arbeiter-zeitung.at/ Arbeiter-Zeitung] 1945 - 1989 "(Free)"

Canada

* [http://www.paperofrecord.com/ Paper of Record] A free archive of historic newspapers from around the world with a focus on Canada.

Newfoundland and Labrador

* [http://collections.mun.ca/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=%2Fmha_twill The Twillingate Sun and Northern Weekly Advertiser (1884-1908). in image "Free"]
* [http://www.library.mun.ca/newsweb/dailynews.html The Daily News St John's (January 3, 1955-December 31, 1963). in image "Free"]

Estonia

* [http://dea.nlib.ee/ Digiteeritud eesti ajalehed]

Faroe Islands

* [http://tidarrit.bok.hi.is/listi.jsp?lang=4&t=f The VESTNORD project (1892-2001)]

Finland

* [http://digi.lib.helsinki.fi/index.html Helsinki University Library - Digital Collections (1771-1890)]
* [http://www.hs.fi/english/archive/ Helsingin Sanomat International Edition (2004- )] English and Finnish. ("free")]

France

* [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb34355551z/date Le Figaro (1826-1942)] , on Gallica
* [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb343599097/date Le Figaro, supplément littéraire du dimanche (1876-1929)] , on Gallica
* [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb343631418/date La Croix (1880-1944)] , on Gallica
* [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb327877302/date L'Humanité (1904-1944)] , on Gallica
* [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb34448033b/date La Presse (1836-1884)] , on Gallica
* [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb327995159/date Le journal des débats et des décrets (1800-1805)] , on Gallica

Germany

* [http://delicious.com/tag/Digi_Zeitungen?setcount=100 Nearly complete list of projects and digital collections]
* [http://deposit.ddb.de/online/exil/exil.htm Exilpresse digital. Deutsche Exilzeitschriften 1933-1945]
* [http://webopac0.hwwa.de/digiview/ Pressemappe 20. Jahrhundert]

Hong Kong

* Apple Daily
* Cyber
* Hong Kong Commercial Daily
* Ming Pao Daily News
* Oriental Daily News
* Sing Pao Daily News
* Sing Tao
* South China Morning Post [In English]
* The Standard [In English]
* The Sun
* Ta Kung Pao
* Wen Wei Po [ [http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/hk.htm Hong Kong Newspapers : Newspapers from Hong Kong : Hong Kong News ] ]

Iceland

* [http://www.timarit.is/listi.jsp?lang=4&t=i The VESTNORD project (1696-2002)]

India

* [http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/archives.htm The Hindu (2000- )]
* [http://www.indianexpress.com/archive.php The Indian Express (1997- )]
* [http://www.telegraphindia.com/archives/archive.html The Telegraph (1999- )]
* [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/archive.cms?toi_leftnav The Times of India (2000- )]
* [http://www.sandesh.com/archive.aspx?NewsCatID=Def Sandesh (2005- )]

Ireland

* [http://www.irishnewsarchive.com Irish Newspaper Archives] - Includes Full archives of Irish Independent (1905-Current), Freemans Journal (1763-Current), The Nation (1842-1897) and many more full archives of great national, regional and out-of-date newspapers from Ireland and Irish America ("pay")
* [http://www.irishtimes.com/search/archive.html Irish Times (1859-)] ("Pay")

Mexico

* [http://www.viviraqui.com.mx/version_impresa_ver.php?edicion=72&pagina=01 The VIVIRAQUI local newspaper archive project (Since 2004)]

New Zealand

* [http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast Papers Past] at the National Library of New Zealand: one tenth of the 1 million pages dated 1840 to 1915 has been OCR processed so far. ("Free")

Norway

* [http://www.nb.no/avis/ Nasjonalbiblioteket - Digitale aviser]

Turkey

* [http://www.todayszaman.com Today's Zaman an online English Daily in Turkey]

United Kingdom

* [http://www.ft.com/home/us Financial Times] ("Free")
* [http://www.uk.olivesoftware.com/ British Library Online Newspaper Archive] : discontinued project with partial runs of four newspapers ("Free")
* [http://www.bl.uk/collections/britishnewspapers1800to1900.html The 19th Century British Library Newspaper Website] : OCR searchable publications from all corners of Britain, 1800-1900. Accessible remotely only to HE and FE foundations, or to readers at the British Library. See website for details.
* [http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/system/paper Collect Britain] : only The Penny Illustrated ("Free")
* [http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk Gazettes Online] ("Free")
* [http://archive.guardian.co.uk/ Guardian (1821-) and Observer (1791-)] ("Pay")
* [http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/ Internet Library of Early Journals] ("Free")
* [http://infotrac.galegroup.com/default The Times Digital Archive (TTDA)] ("Via subscribing libraries only")
* [http://archive.scotsman.com// The Scotsman Digital Archive] ("Pay")
* [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dutillieul/ZOtherPapers/Index.html Transcripts of 800 Georgian and Victorian Newspapers] ("Free")

United States

California

* [http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/advancedsearch.html Los Angeles Times (1881-1984) in image and (1985- ) in text "Pay"]
* [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/qws/as/main San Francisco Chronicle (1995-) free]

Colorado

* [http://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/ Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection (1859 - 1923) Free]

Connecticut

*Hartford Courant; Hartford, Connecticut; [http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courant/advancedsearch.html (1764-1949) in image and (1992- ) in text "Pay"]

District of Columbia

* Washington Post; Washington, D.C.; [http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/search.html (1877-1989) in image (1990- ) in text "Pay"] [http://news.google.com/archivesearch Google News Archive]

Florida

*Florida Digital Newspaper Library; Florida, [http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/UFDC/?c=fdnl1 full text and images of current and historical newspapers from Florida, Free]
*Pensacola News Journal; Pensacola, Florida; [http://search.pensacolanewsjournal.com/sp?aff=117&keywords=&submit=Go (1930's-1999) in microfilm (1999- ) electronic database "Pay"]

Georgia

* Atlanta Constitution; Atlanta, Georgia; [http://www.newslibrary.com/sites/ajc (1868-1929) in image and (1985- ) in text "Pay"]

Hawaii

* Historical Hawaiian Language Newspapers; [http://libweb.hawaii.edu/digicoll/newspapers.htm (19th-early 20th centuries) in images Free]
* Honolulu Star-Bulletin; Honolulu, Hawaii; [http://starbulletin.com/backissues.html (1996- ) in text Free]

Illinois

* Chicago Tribune; Chicago, Illinois; [http://www.chicagotribune.com (1849-1984) in images and (1985- ) in text Pay]
* Chicago Sun-Times; Chicago, Illinois; [http://www.suntimes.com/archives (1986- ) in text Pay]
* Chicago Defender; Chicago, Illinois; [http://www.chicagodefender.com (1921-1975) Pay]
* Quincy, Illinois; [http://quincylibrary.org/library_resources/NewspaperArchive.asp Quincy Historical Newspaper Archive (1835 to 1891) Free]
**Quincy Daily Herald, 1853-1890
**Quincy Daily Whig, 1835-1891
**Illinois Bounty Land Register, 1835-1836

Indiana

*Tribune-Star; Terre Haute, Indiana; [http://www.tribstar.com Terre Haute news and obituaries archives(1992-present) "Free"]

*Special Edition Monthly; Greenfield, Indiana; [http://www.specialeditionmonthly.com Greenfield Indiana Special Interest Articles and News (1994-present) "Free"]

Kentucky

* [http://kdl.kyvl.org/cgi/t/text/text-idx?;page=simpleext&c=kynews Kentuckiana Digital Library all newspapers in image Free] Adair County News (Columbia, Ky. 558 issues), Bluegrass Blade (Lexington, Ky. 424 issues), Bourbon News (Paris, Ky. 1,086 issues), Breathitt County News (Jackson, Ky. 212 issues), Central Record (Lancaster, Ky. 670 issues), Citizen (Berea, Ky. 573 issues), Clay City Times (Clay City, Ky. 463 issues), Earlington Bee (Earlington, Ky. 801 issues), Frankfort Roundabout (Frankfort, Ky. 270 issues), Frankfort Weekly News and Roundabout (Frankfort, Ky. 26 issues), Hartford Republican (Hartford, Ky. 566 issues), Interior Journal (Stanford, Ky. 585 issues), It (Lawrenceburg, Ky. 6 issues), Liberty (LaCenter, Ky. 1 issue), Mountain Advocate (Barbourville, Ky. 208 issues), Mount Vernon Signal (Mount Vernon, Ky. 522 issues), Ohio Valley Worker (Louisville, Ky. 1 issue), Owingsville Outlook (Owingsville, Ky. 196 issues), Record (Greenville, Ky. 99 issues), Reporter (Owensboro, Ky. 1 issue), Richmond Climax (Rickmond, Ky. 447 issues), Semi-weekly Interior Journal (Stanford, Ky. 545 issues), Springfield Sun (Springfield, Ky. 303 issues), Vindicator (Owensboro, Ky. 1 issue), Winchester News (Winchester, Ky. 220 issues).

Massachusetts

* [http://www.boston.com/search/index.html Boston Globe (1872-1922) in image and (1979- ) in text "Pay"]

* [http://www.thecrimson.com/archives.aspx The Harvard Crimson (1873 - Current) in image "Free"]

Michigan

* [http://www.freep.com Detroit Free Press (1975- ) in text "Pay"]

Minnesota

* [http://archive.olivesoftware.com/Default/Skins/Winona/Client.asp?Skin=Winona&AppName=2 Winona Newspaper Project, (1855 - 1946) in image "Free"] The Winona Argus, The Winona Daily Republican and The Winona Republican Herald.

Missouri

* [http://newspapers.umsystem.edu Historic Missouri Newspaper Project (various) Free]
* [http://newspapers.umsystem.edu/Default/Skins/Missouri/Client.asp?Skin=Missouri&AppName=2 Historic Missouri Newspaper Project in text Free]

Nevada

* [http://digital.lvccld.org/lvage.html Las Vegas Age (1905-1924; incomplete run) in image Free]

New York

* Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, New York; [http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/eagle (1841-1902) in image with no text Free]
* New York Times, New York City, New York; [http://www.nytimes.com (1851-1980) in image and (1980- ) in text "Pay"] [http://news.google.com/archivesearch Google News Archive for (1980- )] [http://nyt.ulib.org/index.cgi Historical New York Times project (1860-1866, 1900-1907) ;"Free";]
* [http://news.nnyln.org Various Historical Upstate New York papers Free]
** Adirondack Record-Elizabethtown Post, 1917-1971
** Akwesasne Indian Time, 1982-2002
** Canton Commercial Advertiser, 1900-1952
** Cardinal Points of SUNY Plattsburgh, 1940-2006
** Chateaugay Journal & Chateaugay Record, 1881-1995
** Clarkson Integrator, 1920-2007
** Elizabethtown Post, 1882-1920
** Essex County Republican, 1844-1973
** Fort Covington Sun, 1887-1987
** Fulton Patriot, 1916-1954
** Gouverneur Tribune-Press & others, 1864-2004
** Heuvelton Bee, 1912-1923
** Lake Placid News, 1914-1951
** Lewis County Democrat, 1867-1906
** Lowville Journal & Republican, 1860-1940 Expanded coverage
** Malone Farmer, 1900-1936
** Malone Franklin Gazette, 1876-1899
** Massena Observer 1891-1989
** North Country Catholic, 1946-2006
** Ogdensburg Advance & Ogdensburg Advance-News, 1861-1962
** Oswegonian of SUNY Oswego, 1935-2002
** Plattsburgh Daily Press, 1931-1942
** (Plattsburgh) Press-Republican, 1942-1992
** Plattsburgh Republican, 1811-1820
** Plattsburgh Sentinel, 1866-1931
** Potsdam Courier-Freeman, 1861-1989
** Potsdam Herald-Recorder, 1906-1951
** Potsdam St. Lawrence Herald, 1897-1904
** St. Regis Falls Adirondack News, 1887-1933
** Saranac Lake Adirondack Daily Enterprise, 1948-1976
** Ticonderoga Sentinel, 1874-1950
** Tupper Lake Free Press and Herald, 1911-2005
** Watertown Herald, 1886-1918

New Jersey

* The Star-Ledger; Jersey Journal; The Times, Trenton; Gloucester County Times; The Express-Times; Bridgeton News; and Today's Sunbeam are archived jointly at [http://www.nj.com NJ.com] where it appears that there is only a two week archive, and older articles are purged from the website.
* Cranbury Press; Cranbury, New Jersey; [http://dpr.oclc.org/Default/Skins/Cranbury/Client.asp?skin=Cranbury&pub=CRN&enter=true&AW=1108253308130&AppName=2&GZ=T (1886-1926) in image Free]
* Atlantic Journal -- 1860, Hammonton Farmer -- 1863 and 1866, South Jersey Republican -- 1863-1923, Atlantic Democrat and Cape May County Register -- 1864-1865, Atlantic Democrat and Cumberland County Patriot -- 1866, Atlantic Democrat -- 1866, Atlantic Democrat -- 1867-1868, Hammonton Item -- 1872-1877, Mays Landing Record -- 1877-1906, Atlantic County Record -- 1908-1917, South Jersey Star -- 1917-1923 http://www.atlanticlibrary.org/collections/digitized/newspapers/index.asp
* Various Burlington County newspapers 1810 - 1980s http://sql.bcls.lib.nj.us/gen/
* Bordentown area newspapers 1845 - 2002 http://index.burlco.lib.nj.us/BordentownRegister/
* New Jersey Mirror (Burlington, NJ) October 14, 1818 (vol. 1, no. 5) to March 5, 1947 http://index.burlco.lib.nj.us/Mirror/

Oklahoma

* "The Daily Oklahoman" [http://www.newsok.com/archives in images and in text Pay]
* " [http://www.tulsaworld.com/mm/services/articlesearch.aspx?type=Advanced The Tulsa World (1989-) Free]

Pennsylvania

* "The Philadelphia Inquirer" (1981- ) Pay [http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/archives]
* "The Philadelphia Inquirer" (1834 -1922)" Pay [http://blog.genealogybank.com/2008/05/philadelphia-death-records-online.html]
* "Philadelphia Daily News" (1978- ) Pay [http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/archives]
* "Pittsburgh Post Gazette" (1990- ) Free
* "Pittsburgh Tribune-Review" (1990- ) Free
* [http://www.libraries.psu.edu/digital/newspapers Pennsylvania Civil War Newspapers Free]
**Americian Presbyterian 1857 - 1864
**Bellefonte Democratic Watchman, 1855-1871
**Chambersburg Franklin Repository, 1863-1865
**Columbia Columbia Spy, 1847-1870
**Erie Weekly Observer, 1853-1859
**Erie Observer, 1859-1869
**Gettysburg Republican Compiler, 1854-1857
**Gettysburg Compiler, 1857-1868
**Huntingdon Globe, 1855-1870
**Lebanon Advertiser
**Philadelphia Daily Evening Bulletin 1857 - 1864
**Philadelphia Press, 1857-1864
**Reading Eagle, 1868-1869
**Waynesboro Village Record, 1862-1874
**Wellsboro Agitator, 1854-1865
**Tioga County Agitator, 1865-1871
**Wellsboro Agitator, 1872-1873

outh Carolina

* [http://www.sc.edu/library/digital/collections/newsouth.html The New South Newspaper, Port Royal, S.C., (1862 - 1865); Beaufort, S.C., (1865-1867) in image "Free"]

Texas

* [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_action=keyword&p_product=DMEC&p_theme=dmec Dallas Morning News (1885-1977) in image "Pay"] and [http://www.dallasnews.com/archive (1985- ) in text "Pay"]
* [http://search.chron.com/chronicle/archiveSearch.do Houston Chronicle (1985-) Free]

Utah

* [http://www.harktheherald.com/ Daily Herald (Utah Valley)]
* [http://www.lib.utah.edu/digital/unews/ Utah Digital Newspapers (various) Free]

Washington

* [http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/archives/ Seattle Post-Intelligencer (1986-1999) Free]
* [http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/ Seattle Times (1990-) Free]

National

* [http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/USAToday/search.html?loc=interstitialskip USAToday (4/1987-)]
* [http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/search_fulltext_advanced.html Multiple USA papers 1900-1910 "Free"] from the Library of Congress and National Endowment for the Humanities
* [http://www.newslibrary.com NewsLibrary.com "Pay"]
* [http://www.newspaperarchive.com NewspaperArchive.com (1788- ) in image "Pay"]
* [http://www.wallstreetjournal.com Wall Street Journal (1889- ) in image "Pay"]
* [http://www.daikynguyen.com/eet/print_archive/index.php The Epoch Times Online Print Archive (2000- ) "Free"]
* [http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/csmonitor_historic/search.html The Christian Science Monitor (1908-1980) "Pay"] and [http://www.csmonitorservices.com/csmonitor/archivesearch.jhtml;jsessionid=KEIYTYFSJJVKRKGL4L2SFEQ?_requestid=15852 (1980- ) "Pay"]
* [http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=advanced_search Variety (1914- ) in image "Pay"]
* [http://www.smalltownpapers.com SmallTownPapers - current and past editions of 250+ small community papers from the 1800s to current day "Free"] Note: The search window takes you to the SmallTownPapers Collection "(Free)" on World Vital Records, Inc.

Worldwide

* [http://www.newspaperarchive.com NewspaperARCHIVE.com (1759- )] 80 Million pages. Mostly U.S. "Pay"
* [http://news.google.com/archivesearch Google News Archive] A mixture of abstracts and full articles.
* [http://www.paperofrecord.com/ Paper of Record] A Pay archive of historic newspapers from around the world with a focus on Canada.

News Magazines

* Time (magazine); [http://www.time.com (1923- ) in text Free] this is a rare all-text archive, needs some OCR correction
* Newsweek; [http://www.newsweek.com (1990- ) in text Free]
* U.S. News & World Report; [http://www.usnews.com/ Free]

Comprehensive list

* [http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/oltitles.html Library of Congress]

oftware providers

* [http://www.newsbankmediaservices.com NewsBank Media Services]
* [http://www.olivesoftware.com Olive Software]
* [http://www.tipsdatasys.com Tips Data Sys ]
* [http://www.pressmart.net Pressmart Media]

ee also

*List of online magazine archives
*List of online image archives
*National Digital Newspaper Program
*
*Readex
* NewsBank

References

External links

* [http://www.readex.com/readex/index.cfm?content=96 Readex America's Historical Newspapers]
* [http://news.google.com/archivesearch Google News Archive]
* [http://pqarchiver.com/products_pq/descriptions/pq-hist-news.shtml ProQuest]
* [http://icon.crl.edu/digitization.htmICON — Newspaper digitization projects, past, present and prospective]
* [http://www.bib.uab.es/premsa/en.php Quiosc — Press. Newspapers and magazines]
* [http://www.library.uiuc.edu/hix/historical.html Historical Newspapers Online]
* [http://xooxleanswers.com/newspaperarchives4.aspx Free Online Newspaper Archives]