23.15 Mashup or Archive? Historical Newspapers from ProQuest

Google News Archive is a great tool, but it will push you to pay-to-view articles. LCPL has a subscription to ProQuest Historical Newspapers, which has full-text and image historical newspapers for free. New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor and Los Angeles Times. So before you follow a Google News Archive link to a pay for an article from one of those newspapers, try your search in Historical Newspapers. It’s amazing how much can be found in a more than a century worth of daily papers. But I hear you cry… what’s Web 2.0 about a Proquest database?