A growing number of newspapers and magazines are starting to charge for access to their online archives. (SIlly rabbits. Don’t they know information wants to be free?) Newport Library offers free access, with a valid library card number, to Gale Periodical Database, that offers thousands of archived periodicals, most with full-text and images.
Google News Archive offers the same service to anyone, no library card needed! Type in a search term and Prest-O! Change-O!, tens of thousands of (usually) relevant magazine and newspapers articles appear. Most articles are free to view, although some may be links to pay-to-view sites and those are clearly marked. One cool feature is an interactive graphical timeline that can be used to limit your search to a certain time period.
Google News Archive is great for students working on research papers, history buffs looking for the odd 90-year old newspaper article or just anyone looking...well...for anything. Local news, foreign news, news of the past, present and future. Well, maybe not the future. But you know Google. They’re probably working on that, too.
Check out Google News Archive HERE.
