Updating: Full Text Daily News Archives With Search Engines

[Shirl Kennedy]

Peter et. al.

The News Division of the Special Libraries Association has a page of
full-text newspaper archives pointers at
http://sunsite.unc.edu/slanews/internet/archives.html.  Although some of
them are fee-based, there are plenty of free ones, many of which are not
included in your (excellent and highly recommended) resource.

The American Journalism Review's NewsLink has a search tool at
http://www.newslink.org/searchn.html which permits searching of a variety of
online news archives.  Since the resources, available via a drop-down menu,
are varied, there's no good way of knowing the depth of the archives.  Looks
like mostly current stuff, but...  The site itself is very rich with links
not only to media organizations of all types worldwide, but there's also
original content on press critiques, etc.

A relatively new site called News Hunt allows searching not only for current
news but provides access to the searchable archives of (now at least) 66
papers at
http://www.newshunt.com/cgi-bin/search.pl?fields=4&query=Archives
There's a decent annotation for each site, which describes years available,
etc.

The Southfield (MI) Public Library has a collection of about 20 searchable
news archives at
http://metronet.lib.mi.us/SFLD/linkarch.html

FWIW

Shirl Kennedy (who was a news reporter before she went to library school)






-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Milbury <pmilbury at cusd.chico.k12.ca.us>
To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at library.berkeley.edu>
Date: Saturday, October 11, 1997 8:49 PM
Subject: Updating: Full Text Daily News Archives With Search Engines


>Hello Web4Lib Friends,                        (Cross-posted to LM_NET)
>
>   Earlier this year I discovered an interesting way to supplement our two
>commercial magazine and newspaper databases that we subscribe to at CHS.
>As part of a research project with a CHS English teacher, I sought out a
>couple dozen free, online daily newspapers and other daily news sources,
>each with full-text articles accessible through the use of their own local
>search engines.
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>   These resources give our students access to news stories that are
>often not included with typical commercial databases which purchased by
>K-12 schools. It also provides them with practice using a variety of
>searching commands/protocols.
>
>   I am now in the process of updating the links, and ask for your help
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>   If you know of a daily news source that has substantial full-text
>archives (e.g., more than one year), which is free, and accessible
>through a search engine, please let me know. I am especially seeking
>sources that do not require registration/passwords. Need not be a U.S.
>source.
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>   Please send the resource name & URL to:
>      PMILBURY at CUSD.CHICO.K12.CA.US
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>   News source must be:
>     1. Full-text w/substantial archives (1+ years)
>     2. Searchable via search engine
>     3. Daily (at least 5 days per week)
>     4. Free
>
>   Please visit the Chico High School Library Full Text Daily News
>Archives With Search Engines at:
>    http://www.chs.chico.k12.ca.us/libr/webres/news-ss.html
>
>TIA very much for your assistance!
>
>Peter Milbury,
>Librarian-Mentor Teacher      http://www.cusd.chico.k12.ca.us/~pmilbury
>American Memory Fellow:  Library Of Congress - National Digital Library
>Chico High School, Chico, CA 95926       http://www.chs.chico.k12.ca.us
>A National Blue Ribbon and California Distinguished School 916-891-3036
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