Please open your computer browser and go to these URLs, each in a separate tab or window

http://news.google.com/newspapers

http://goo.gl/KN3LOQ

http://cdnc.ucr.edu

http://www.elephind.com

http://newspapers.library.in.gov

Finding and Using Digitized Historical Newspapers for Your Research [LAB 1884]

What we will do … A few words of introduction

Not all newspapers are digitized[Brian] How newspapers are digitized [Frederick] Free vs. Subscription: focusing on free[Brian] Google won’t always get you what you want [Frederick]

Search basics and more [Frederick]

Creating an account at a free, public collection [Brian]

Using free, public digital newspaper collections Basic search (with facets) using Elephind [Brian] Advanced search using California Digital Newspaper Collection

[Frederick] Collecting what you find [Brian] Interacting with digital newspapers [Frederick]

Miscellaneous [Frederick]

Question and answer

Please take the digital newspapers experience survey!

[http://goo.gl/forms/gmLFHFKPks]

Not All Newspapers are Digitized

How Newspapers are Digitized

1st, take a picture of the newspaper …

How Newspapers are Digitized

2nd, analyzethe image ….

Deaths. lln»rieff, Esq. of <c .. Qn. Sunday, the till. greatly Drandrellt, of Orms4\irJi.- ~ ; ;✓ ' • * On ijfr r inn ljjjil F iij '11 f Havodivyd, Carnarvonshire, S ; **" *- ' « ' March Oxford, F. Tfovmeud, Uerald. » • V . •On Tncsdav last, Mr. Charles. IWilinson, this 8 ; had vf thesis#,, a week ago, which tcrminate<i'iu his death. . / ' ■ O'i Sunday, dJst nit. at. AsbtCnvHall, mar Lancaster, Mr.,Geo. Worn ick, many years house'steward hit late Once The Hamilton and Brandon. He locked himself h»oWn'r«wte<: soon. twelve o'clock" that dny, and fii»-d a loaded pistol "through Ins bead, 1 which instantaneously killed him. Coronet's Verdict, shot himself in a temporary fit of Friday week,

How Newspapers are Digitized

3rd, optical character recognition …

How Newspapers are Digitized

4th, format the image and data appropriately …

Free vs Subscription

National Collections with Free Access

European http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/

Australian http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper

New Zealand http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/

American http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/

Singaporean http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/

Free vs Subscription

State Collections with Free Access

California http://cdnc.ucr.edu

Illinois http://idnc.library.illinois.edu

Indiana https://newspapers.library.in.gov

Oregon http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/

Texas http://texashistory.unt.edu/

Utah http://digitalnewspapers.org/

Virginia http://virginiachronicle.com/

Washington http://www.sos.wa.gov/legacy/newspapers.aspx

Wyoming http://newspapers.wyo.gov/

Free vs Subscription

Subscription Collections

Institutional Subscriptions

Proquest Historical Newspapers http://www.proquest.com/products-services/pq-hist-news.html

Readex (Newsbank) Historical Newspapers http://www.readex.com/?content=343

Free vs Subscription

Individual Subscriptions

Newspapers.com (Ancestry) http://www.newspapers.com/

NewspaperArchive http://newspaperarchive.com/

British Newspaper Archive http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/

Free vs Subscription

won’t always get you want you want

Frederick Zarndt, Apr 2012 IFLA International Newspapers Conference, Bibliotheque nationale de France, Paris. http://bit.ly/bnfnewspapers

traffic rankings and search results show that content in

library digital newspaper collections dwells in Internet

obscurity

how do we know this?

Gallipoli CampaignApril 1915 to January 1916

also known asBattle of GallipoliDardanelles CampaignBattle of Çanakkale

search phrase

(battle OR campaign)AND

(Gallipoli OR Dardenelles OR Çanakkale)

date range 1-Jan-1915 to 31-Dec-1916

(modified as needed for local search engines)

using this search phrase we first search the collection

with the library’s own search engine...

collection collection URL ~size pages number of results

Trove http://trove.nla.gov.au 9,880,000 16,321 articles

CDNC http://cdnc.ucr.edu 540,000 3 articles

Historical Newspaper Library http://www.nationallibrary.fi/ 2,000,000 333 results

Gallica http://gallica.bnf.fr 2,200,000 222 results

Historische Kranten http://kranten.kb.nl 5,000,000 34,399 articles

Papers Past http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz 2,960,000 7,084 articles

NBDigital Aviser http://www.nb.no/aviser/ 12,000,000 539 articles

Newspaper SG http://newspapers.nl.sg 2,400,000 294 articles

British Newspaper Archive http://britishnewspaperarchive.com 6,912,000 1857 articles

Chronicling America http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov 6,025,000 104,503 hits

Results from Jun 2013Results from Apr 2012

search results

now we search with the same phrase using

Google...

http://www.google.com/

http://www.google.co.uk/

http://www.google.com.au/

http://www.google.co.nz/

http://www.google.com.sg/

(battle OR campaign)AND(Gallipoli OR Dardenelles OR Çanakkale)

Google advanced search no longer allows specific date ranges

search phrase

#18

#41

#96

IN 1st 100 GOOGLE SEARCH RESULTS, NOT A SINGLE RESULT FROM LIBRARY

HISTORICAL DIGITAL NEWSPAPER COLLECTIONS!

Search basics

Search basics

Search basics [http://news.google.com/newspapers]

Search for an exact phrase using “ or ‘, for example, “rootstech 2015” or ‘a penny saved is a penny earned’

Search for alternate words or phrases using OR, for example, (bill OR william) AND gates

Search for webpages which have some words but not others using – (no space between – and the word), for example, rootstech -2015 or ‘gary herbert’ utah -governor -gov

Search for a phrase with missing words, for example, ‘a penny * is a penny *’

Search for synonyms using ~, for example, ~grandmother moses or ~william clinton

Form complex searches by grouping words and operators, for example, (marilyn monroe) OR (norma jeanne mortenson) which is the same as (marilyn AND monroe) OR (norma AND jeanne AND mortenson)

Search basics

Indiana’s Hoosier State Chronicles[http://newspapers.library.in.gov]

Creating an Account

Creating an Account

Guidelines: Capitalization matters; keep it simple and use all lowercase No spaces Use password you will remember; does not have to be super secure

Creating an Account

Guidelines: Confirmation email sent to account you registered; make sure to check that account Email should show up in minutes, no more than an hour Check Junk or Spam folder if email is not in Inbox Click on link in email to confirm registration; if you don’t confirm, you won’t be able to

log in Contact site administrator with any problems

Elephind[http://www.elephind.com]

Basic Search (in Elephind)

Basic Search (in Elephind)

Faceted Browsing Place of Publication Date Source Collection Newspaper Title Language

Other Types of Facets “Article” Type Tags Word Count

Basic Search (in Elephind)

Facet: State of Publication1. Clicked on facet “United States”. 2. Then clicked on “More…” within “State of Publication”. 3. List of indexed articles by state collection.

Basic Search (in Elephind)

Facet: Arizona1. Showing all 1,885 articles from Arizona2. Can further refine by clicking on another facet3. Can refine by multiple facets

Advanced search[http://cdnc.ucr.edu]

Collecting What You Find

Indiana’s Hoosier State Chronicles[http://newspapers.library.in.gov]

Collecting What You Find

Collecting What You Find

Collecting What You Find

Private Lists

Correcting OCR text[http://goo.gl/KN3LOQ]

Deaths. lln»rieff, Esq. of <c .. Qn. Sunday, the till. greatly Drandrellt, of Orms4\irJi.- ~ ; ;✓ ' • * On ijfr r inn ljjjil F iij '11 f Havodivyd, Carnarvonshire, S ; **" *- ' « ' March Oxford, F. Tfovmeud, Uerald. » • V . •On Tncsdav last, Mr. Charles. IWilinson, this 8 ; had vf thesis#,, a week ago, which tcrminate<i'iu his death. . / ' ■ O'i Sunday, dJst nit. at. AsbtCnvHall, mar Lancaster, Mr.,Geo. Worn ick, many years house'steward hit late Once The Hamilton and Brandon. He locked himself h»oWn'r«wte<: soon. twelve o'clock" that dny, and fii»-d a loaded pistol "through Ins bead, 1 which instantaneously killed him. Coronet's Verdict, shot himself in a temporary fit of Friday week,

Raw OCR text Article image

Commenting on articles / pages[http://goo.gl/KN3LOQ]

Adding a tag to articles / pages[http://goo.gl/KN3LOQ]

Important Wikipedia webpage!

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_online_newspaper_archives

Miscellaneous info and Q&A

More about search

http://websearch.about.com/od/searchingtheweb

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/internet/basics/search-engine.htm

https://support.google.com/websearch

https://duck.co/help/results/syntax

https://help.yahoo.com/kb/search

http://www.solrtutorial.com/solr-query-syntax.html

Miscellaneous info and Q&A

Miscellaneous digital newspapers info

Elephind https://www.elephind.com/

Center for Research Libraries http://icon.crl.edu/digitization.php

Google News http://news.google.com/newspapers/

Stars and Stripes http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sgphtml/sashtml/sashome.html

Miscellaneous info and Q&A

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Miscellaneous info and Q&A

Questions?Slides are available at

http://www.slideshare.net/cowboyMontana

Brian Geiger

California Digital Newspaper Collection

University of California Riverside

bgeiger@ucr.edu

Frederick Zarndt

Secretary, IFLA News Media

International Federation of Libraries and Associations (IFLA)

frederick@frederickzarndt.com