[Yulpub] Fwd: [DIG_REF] Google News Adds Historical Newspaper Archives

[Fred Shapiro]

On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Suzanne Lorimer wrote:

> A very interesting development, made in cooperation with at least two of our 
> favorite news vendors: Factiva and Lexis Nexis.

At Sue's suggestion, I am forwarding to this list a subsequent exchange 
that she and I had about Newspaperarchive.  See below for Sue's comments 
followed by my response:

> On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Suzanne Lorimer wrote:
>
> > I had a question earlier this summer from a faculty member about the
> > possibility of Yale subscribing to newspaperarchive.com. Of course, he 
> > was doing work on Jamaica, and if you look at the list of papers the
> > archive covers < http://www.newspaperarchive.com/BrowsePapers.aspx >,
> > you'll see that Jamaica is one of its strengths, at least for foreign
> > coverage.  Someone would have to do a fairly complete analysis of
> > overlap among Factiva, LexisNexis, and newspaperarchive before we 
> > could justify subscribing, I think.
>
> I have used Newspaperarchive extensively, and you don't have to do much
> research to discover that it has tens of millions of pages of newspapers
> not on Factiva or LexisNexis.  The issue may be that they market to
> individuals, not libraries.  But I would urge trying to get an
> institutional license.  In the meantime, I have a personal subscription
> and would be willing to help out reference librarians getting
> Newspaperarchive inquiries from patrons because of this new Google
> visibility.
>
> Fred

Fred Shapiro
Associate Librarian for Collections and Access and Lecturer in Legal
   Research
Lillian Goldman Library
Yale Law School