GOOGLE NEWS ARCHIVES

About News Archives

News archive search searches across a large collection of historical archives including major newspapers/magazines, news archives and legal archives. Search results include both content that is accessible to all users (such as BBC News, Time Magazine and Guardian) and content that requires a fee (such as Washington Post Archives, Newspaper Archive, and New York Times Archives). In addition to crawling content online, we've also worked with newspapers to digitize materials via our News Archive Partner Program. Through partnerships with newspapers around the world, the News Archive Partner Program makes unique and previously-unavailable newspaper content searchable and browsable online. -- from Google's information pages

• What is it? What does it cover? -- from Google's blog.
• See a video about it.
• Is the content free? Some is, some isn't. If it isn't free, UNF may have it in print, microfilm or microfiche. Just jot down the date, page numbers, etc.
• Quick help and FAQs.
• Are there foreign language newspapers? A few -- more will be added in the future.

Take It for a Test Drive

• Try this search and see how you can move around the full paper -- Americans walk on moon
• Look at the Rome (Georgia) News-Tribune and the St. Petersburg Times. See how you can move all through the newspaper.
• Note that you can usually see right away if the article is free or if there is a charge.
• Note the "Timeline" option. This lets you narrow your search down to a year, a month and then a day of the month.

New York Times FAQs

• Articles in the Public Domain (1851 to 1922) are free and are in pdf format.
• Articles from 1987 to the present are free in plain text format without graphs, charts or images.
• If you want the full article with graphics, you can buy it or copy it from the microfilm in the library.
• 1851 to 1980 FAQs.
• 1981 to present FAQs