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'''NewspaperARCHIVE.com''' is a commercial online database of digitized newspapers. The site was launched in 1999 by its parent company, [[Heritage Microfilm|Heritage Microfilm, Inc.]] of [[Cedar Rapids, Iowa]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://newspaperarchive.com/about-us.aspx |title=About us |author=Heritage Archives, Inc. |work=Newspaperarchive.com |accessdate=2 May 2012}}</ref> |
'''NewspaperARCHIVE.com''' is a scam commercial online database of digitized newspapers. If you give them your credit card number they will auto bill you once a year for over 100.00. They make it very difficult to cancel this billing and there is no contact information on their website unless you "sign in" which they will use against you when you say you don't use their service. They will refuse to refund your money. They don't really have a decent archive of real newspapers just small city papers. The site was launched in 1999 by its parent company, [[Heritage Microfilm|Heritage Microfilm, Inc.]] of [[Cedar Rapids, Iowa]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://newspaperarchive.com/about-us.aspx |title=About us |author=Heritage Archives, Inc. |work=Newspaperarchive.com |accessdate=2 May 2012}}</ref> |
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{{As of|2008|6}}, NewspaperARCHIVE.com said it provided full text search for 909 million articles on 85 million pages over 240 years that represented 2,875 publication titles in more than 748 cities. As of 2012, the product includes newspapers from Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Jamaica, Japan, South Africa, United Kingdom, and the United States.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://newspaperarchive.com/browselocations/c0.html |title=Newspaperarchive.com |author=Heritage Archives Inc. |location=855 Wright Bros. Blvd., Cedar Rapids, Iowa |accessdate=2 May 2012}}</ref> |
{{As of|2008|6}}, NewspaperARCHIVE.com said it provided full text search for 909 million articles on 85 million pages over 240 years that represented 2,875 publication titles in more than 748 cities. As of 2012, the product includes newspapers from Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Jamaica, Japan, South Africa, United Kingdom, and the United States.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://newspaperarchive.com/browselocations/c0.html |title=Newspaperarchive.com |author=Heritage Archives Inc. |location=855 Wright Bros. Blvd., Cedar Rapids, Iowa |accessdate=2 May 2012}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 19:33, 10 September 2012
NewspaperARCHIVE.com is a scam commercial online database of digitized newspapers. If you give them your credit card number they will auto bill you once a year for over 100.00. They make it very difficult to cancel this billing and there is no contact information on their website unless you "sign in" which they will use against you when you say you don't use their service. They will refuse to refund your money. They don't really have a decent archive of real newspapers just small city papers. The site was launched in 1999 by its parent company, Heritage Microfilm, Inc. of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.[1]
As of June 2008[update], NewspaperARCHIVE.com said it provided full text search for 909 million articles on 85 million pages over 240 years that represented 2,875 publication titles in more than 748 cities. As of 2012, the product includes newspapers from Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Jamaica, Japan, South Africa, United Kingdom, and the United States.[2]
Searches can be conducted by keyword, date, and location. Results are free, but access to the newspaper articles available to download in PDF format requires a subscription. Searching is available directly from newspaperarchive.com or via news.google.com/archivesearch. The company says that it follows the Automated Content Access Protocol in which its clients have a say in what is available online. A reviewer in 2004 observed: "Newspaperarchive is notorious for electronically providing the wrong search dates. ... An '1848' newspaper might be from '1948.' A '1949' newspaper might be from '1994.' Even the newspaper title might be wrong. Also, if you have a dial-up modem, downloading the actual page can be slow."[3]
The digitized newspapers that are currently available and OCR'd represent a fraction of the 150 million pages of historical documents that Heritage Microfilm maintains in its microform archive. According to NewspaperARCHIVE.com, it is microfilming 2.5 million pages of newspapers each month and has 180,000 reels of microfilm.[4][5]
The website was brought down for two days in June 2008 by the Iowa Flood of 2008, which cut power to its data center in Cedar Rapids. The company said that its physical archives, which are stored on higher ground, were not damaged.[6]
References
- ^ Heritage Archives, Inc. "About us". Newspaperarchive.com. Retrieved 2 May 2012.
- ^ Heritage Archives Inc. "Newspaperarchive.com". 855 Wright Bros. Blvd., Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Retrieved 2 May 2012.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: location (link) - ^ Barry Popik (2004). "Digital Historical Newspapers : A Review of the Powerful New Research Tools". Journal of English Linguistics. 32. Sage.
- ^ "HeritageArchives.org". HeritageArchives.org. 2005-06-27. Retrieved 2011-12-20.
- ^ "Our Mission". NewspaperArchive.com. Retrieved 2009-07-01.
- ^ "HeritageArchives.org". HeritageArchives.org. 2005-06-27. Retrieved 2011-12-20.