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Overview
ProQuest Historical Newspapers is a definitive, historical newspaper archive and includes The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian and The Observer, The Irish Times and other leading American,m British and Irish titles of broad research importance. ProQuest Historical Newspapers is available as a subscription or perpetual purchase.
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Generic MARC records for ProQuest Historical Newspapers are available in WorldCat
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The database includes relatively comprehensive, searchable page-image content from the print editions of major U.S., U.K., and Irish newspapers. Most runs extend from the first issue published to recent years, with a "moving wall" determined by publisher-imposed embargoes of varying length. The content includes print edition content only, rather than the dynamic, born-digital content appering on the newspaper's website.
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The content is accessible through a web interface, which takes advantage of extensive ProQuest text OCR, zoning of article and feature content, and tagging to enhance navigation, search and discovery, including rudimentary text-mining and visualization features. The ProQuest web platform incorporates multiple ProQuest Historical Newspaper Collections as well as other ProQuest historical collections, and enables cross-searching and interoperability across those platforms.
Additional Reviews in Other Sources
Beck, Thomas J. "ProQuest Historical Newspapers." The Charleston Advisor. Volume 9, Number 3. January 2008. pp. 38-40(3) http://charleston.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/charleston/chadv/2008/00000009/00000003/art00013 Accessed December 5, 2013.
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