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This is a list of text-searchable, free to access (no-pay, non-subscription/-membership/-login) online English newspaper sources. As a rule, entries on this list access many thousands or millions of newspaper pages; they are intended to provide a significant resource to aid in building Wikipedia articles, in which [[WP:CITE|citations]] to [[WP:IRS|reliable sources]] is the lifeblood of proper content and at the core of all of Wikipedia's content policies and guidelines, such as [[WP:N|notability]], [[WP:V|verifiability]], [[WP:NPOV|neutral point of view]], and [[WP:NOR|no original research]]. Websites that provide only limited free material, thus cutting off the bulk of a much larger database, such as ''The New York Times'', are not included.
This is a list of text-searchable, free to access (no-pay, non-subscription/-membership/-login) online English newspaper sources. As a rule, entries on this list access many thousands or millions of newspaper pages; they are intended to provide a significant resource to aid in building Wikipedia articles, in which [[WP:CITE|citations]] to [[WP:IRS|reliable sources]] is the lifeblood of proper content and at the core of all of Wikipedia's content policies and guidelines, such as [[WP:N|notability]], [[WP:V|verifiability]], [[WP:NPOV|neutral point of view]], and [[WP:NOR|no original research]]. Websites that provide only limited free material, thus cutting off the bulk of a much larger database, such as ''The New York Times'', are not included.


==CONTINENTAL or NATIONAL resources==
==Resources==
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* [http://historicalnewspapers.library.ubc.ca/ BC Historical Newspapers (1865–1994)] – database covering 168 British Columbia newspapers, with over 12 million pages available; provided by the [[University of British Columbia]].
* [http://newspapers.bc.edu/ Boston College newspaper collection (1888–2013)] – provides over 148,000 pages
*[https://bklyn.newspapers.com/ Brooklyn Daily Eagle] – Digitization of the historic Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper, from 1841 to 1955; approximately 1,500,000 newspaper pages. Also searches ''Brooklyn Life'' (10,000 plus pages) and ''Activities of Long Island Society'' (53,000 plus pages).
* [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/ California Digital Newspaper Collection] – provides over 7.5 million pages.
* [http://www.dloc.com/text Caribbean Newspaper Digitization Project (titles from various countries, 1900–present)]{{Snd}} archive of historic and current newspapers from the Caribbean, providing access to over 2.6 million pages.
* [http://www.dloc.com/text Caribbean Newspaper Digitization Project (titles from various countries, 1900–present)]{{Snd}} archive of historic and current newspapers from the Caribbean, providing access to over 2.6 million pages.
*[http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov Chronicling America] – digitization project of the U.S. Library of Congress; a smorgasbord of American newspapers published between 1789 and 1922; approximately 17,000,000 pages.
*[http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov Chronicling America] – digitization project of the U.S. Library of Congress; a smorgasbord of American newspapers published between 1777 and 1963; approximately 20,000,000 pages.
* [https://www.europeana.eu/en/collections/topic/18-newspapers European Library Newspapers] – European newspapers from 20 countries, dating from 1618 to the 1980s.
*[http://www.elephind.com Elephind] – text searchable free database with access to over 200 million items from 4,345 newspaper titles.
*[http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/newspapers The European Library] – text searchable free database of approximately 3.3 million European newspaper pages; a project funded under the European Commission's CIP 2007–2013 programme.
*[https://www.nli.org.il/en/discover/newspapers National Library of Israel newspaper collection] (in Arabic, English and Hebrew)
* [https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/ Newspaper SG] - Singaporean newspapers dating back to 1827
*[http://news.google.com/newspapers Google News Archive] — an unsupported (abandoned) database. Most useful to find a specific date of a specific newspaper. Limited searching ability. (See [[Google News Archive]].)
* [http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast Papers Past] – digitization project of the National Library of New Zealand; over 6 million New Zealand newspaper pages, 270 thousand pages of magazine and journal content, as well as certain letters, diaries and parliamentary papers. Up to 1971 for one newspaper; only up to 1950 for many newspapers.
*[https://theguardian.newspapers.com/ The Guardian]{{Snd}} all content is free. It is not clear how far back the archive goes, but it extends at least to 1999.
* [http://trove.nla.gov.au/ Trove] – digitization project of the National Library of Australia; over 23 million Australian newspaper pages.
*[http://www.independent.co.uk/ The Independent]{{Snd}} archives of ''[[The Independent]]'' from 30 June 1992 to present.
* [https://newspapers.library.wales/ Welsh Newspapers Online], over 15 million articles from 1804 to 1919 in over 100 newspapers primarily published in Wales.
* [https://digitalcollections.lib.umanitoba.ca/islandora/object/uofm:manitobia Manitobia (1869–present)]{{Snd}} 38 Manitoban newspapers provided by [[Department of Canadian Heritage]]

*[http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/# New York State Historic Newspapers] – provides over 11.3 million newspaper pages.
==SUBJECT-SPECIFIC resources==
* [http://digitalnc.org/collections/newspapers North Carolina Newspapers (1824–2011)] – text searchable database of 472 student and community newspapers from schools and towns around North Carolina.
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* [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ Biodiversity Heritage Library] - 60 million pages, natural history literature
* [https://mediahistoryproject.org/ Media History Digital Library] - Public domain and lapsed-copyright entertainment industry trade papers and magazines dating back to the 19th century
* [https://naldc.nal.usda.gov/all_collections U.S. National Agricultural Library Digital Collections]

==REGIONAL resources==
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=== Europe ===

* [https://theguardian.newspapers.com/ The Guardian]{{Snd}} all content is free. It is not clear how far back the archive goes, but it extends at least to 1999.
* [http://www.independent.co.uk/ The Independent]{{Snd}} archives of ''[[The Independent]]'' from 30 June 1992 to present.

=== North America ===

* [https://azmemory.azlibrary.gov/ Arizona Memory] - 200,000 sources, incl Arizona Historical Digital Newspapers and Arizona Highways
* [https://atwoodfoundation.org/anchoragetimes.html Anchorage Daily Times] (1915 to 1992) provided by the Atwood Foundation.
* [http://historicalnewspapers.library.ubc.ca/ BC Historical Newspapers (1865–1994)] – database covering 169 British Columbia newspapers, with over 12 million pages available; provided by the [[University of British Columbia]].
* [http://newspapers.bc.edu/ Boston College newspaper collection (1888–2013)] – provides over 148,000 pages
* [https://bklyn.newspapers.com/ Brooklyn Daily Eagle] – Digitization of the historic Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper, from 1841 to 1955; approximately 1,500,000 newspaper pages. Also searches ''Brooklyn Life'' (10,000 plus pages) and ''Activities of Long Island Society'' (53,000 plus pages).
* [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/ California Digital Newspaper Collection] – provides over 10.0 million pages.
* [https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/ Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection] (1859–2021; approximately 2.5 million pages)
* [http://www.elephind.com Elephind] – text searchable free database with access to over 200 million items from 4,345 newspaper titles.
* [https://newspapers.uflib.ufl.edu/ Florida Digital Newspaper Collection]
* [https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/newspapers/ Georgia (US State) Historic Newspapers] - provides 984 newspaper titles from 1763 to the present day.
* [http://news.google.com/newspapers Google News Archive] — an unsupported (abandoned) database. Most useful to find a specific date of a specific newspaper. Limited searching ability. (See [[Google News Archive]].)
* [https://idnc.library.illinois.edu/ Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection] - Includes 209,000 issues of 198 newspapers from the U.S. state of Illinois
* [https://newspapers.library.in.gov/ Hoosier State Chronicles] - Includes 1.4 million pages of newspapers from the U.S. state of Indiana
* [https://digitalcollections.lib.umanitoba.ca/islandora/object/uofm:manitobia Manitobia (1869–present)]{{Snd}} 37 Manitoban newspapers provided by [[Department of Canadian Heritage]].
* [https://digmichnews.cmich.edu/ Digital Michigan Newspapers] - 78,904 issues comprising 800,041 pages
* [https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/nm_newspapers/ New Mexico Historical Newspapers] - 200,000 pages
* [http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/# New York State Historic Newspapers] – provides over 11.7 million newspaper pages.
* [http://digitalnc.org/collections/newspapers North Carolina Newspapers (1824–2011)] – text searchable database of 1161 student and community newspapers from schools and towns around North Carolina.
*[http://fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html Old Fulton NY Post Cards] – a private digitization project; contains over 51 million old New York State historical newspaper pages.
*[http://fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html Old Fulton NY Post Cards] – a private digitization project; contains over 51 million old New York State historical newspaper pages.
* [https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/ Historic Oregon Newspapers] - 2.2 million pages
*[http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast Papers Past] – digitization project of the National Library of New Zealand; over 6 million New Zealand newspaper pages, 270 thousand pages of magazine and journal content, as well as certain letters, diaries and parliamentary papers.
*[https://texashistory.unt.edu/explore/collections/TDNP/ Texas Digital Newspaper Program] - text searchable database in partnership with The Portal to Texas History
* [https://panewsarchive.psu.edu/ Pennsylvania Newspaper Archive at Penn State]
* [https://texashistory.unt.edu/explore/collections/TDNP/ Texas Digital Newspaper Program] - text searchable database in partnership with The Portal to Texas History
* [https://digitalnewspapers.org/ Utah Digital Newspapers] - 6.3 million pages from 374 newspapers
*[http://trove.nla.gov.au/ Trove] – digitization project of the National Library of Australia; over 5 million Australian newspaper pages.
*[https://virginiachronicle.com Virginia Chronicle, Library of Virginia] over 2.1 million pages and nearly 239K articles as of December 2021.
* [https://virginiachronicle.com Virginia Chronicle, Library of Virginia] over 2.5 million pages and nearly 239,000 articles as of March 2022.


==See also==
==See also==
*[http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/oltitles.html Newspaper Archives, Indexes & Morgues] – A list of online newspaper archives like this page, curated by the Library of Congress (includes both pay and free sources)
* [http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/oltitles.html Newspaper Archives, Indexes & Morgues] – A list of online newspaper archives like this page, curated by the Library of Congress (includes both pay and free sources)
*[[Wikipedia:List of online newspaper archives]] – Note: includes newspapers that are behind a paywall and a large portion are not text-searchable
* [[Wikipedia:List of online newspaper archives]] – Note: includes newspapers that are behind a paywall and a large portion are not text-searchable
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange/Shared Resources]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange/Shared Resources]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request]]
*[[List of academic databases and search engines]]
* [[List of academic databases and search engines]]
*[[List of digital library projects]]
* [[List of digital library projects]]
*[[List of scientific journals]]
* [[List of scientific journals]]


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Revision as of 12:03, 16 March 2023

This is a list of text-searchable, free to access (no-pay, non-subscription/-membership/-login) online English newspaper sources. As a rule, entries on this list access many thousands or millions of newspaper pages; they are intended to provide a significant resource to aid in building Wikipedia articles, in which citations to reliable sources is the lifeblood of proper content and at the core of all of Wikipedia's content policies and guidelines, such as notability, verifiability, neutral point of view, and no original research. Websites that provide only limited free material, thus cutting off the bulk of a much larger database, such as The New York Times, are not included.

CONTINENTAL or NATIONAL resources

SUBJECT-SPECIFIC resources

REGIONAL resources

Europe

North America

See also