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NewspaperArchive.com is a commercial online database of digitized newspapers, and claims to be the world's largest newspaper archive. [1] The site was launched in 1999 by its parent company, Heritage Microfilm, Inc. of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. It is currently overseen by Heritage Archives, Inc. [2]

As of June 2008, 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 2015, the product includes newspapers from Azerbaijan, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Jamaica, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, South Africa, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, the United Kingdom, the United States, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Uzbekistan. [3]

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. The digitized newspapers that are currently available and OCR'd represent a fraction of the 150 million pages of historical documents that Heritage Microfilm maintains in its microform archive.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]

A reviewer in 2004 observed that at the time the archive had some errors with year dates, [6] in June 2014, The Iowa Attorney General’s Office opened an investigation after complaints about deceptive and misleading practices that include charging subscribers for involuntary donations to a charity, [7] and on August 1, 2014, Newspaper Archive, Inc. had a rating of F from Better Business Bureau. [8]

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. [9]

NewspaperArchive claims as of 30 June 2018 that it has online newspapers dating from 1607 worldwide and its index includes 9,829 newspapers. [10] In 2020, Heritage Microfilm acquired World Archives, the parent company of NewspaperArchive. As a part of the acquisition, new owner Charles Thayne Capital went on to name former Ancestry.com executive, Kendall Hulet, as CEO of the platform. In 2023, the World Archives platform was rebranded as Storied. NewspaperArchive was included as part of the Storied platform.

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References

  1. ↑ Heritage Archives Inc. "Newspaperarchive.com". 855 Wright Bros. Blvd., Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Retrieved 10 January 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  2. ↑ Heritage Archives, Inc. "About us". Newspaperarchive.com. Retrieved 2 May 2012.
  3. ↑ Heritage Archives Inc. "World Newspaper Archives – Newspaperarchive.com". 855 Wright Bros. Blvd., Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Retrieved 10 January 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  4. ↑ "HeritageArchives.org". HeritageArchives.org. 2005-06-27. Retrieved 2011-12-20.
  5. ↑ "Our Mission". NewspaperArchive.com. Retrieved 2009-07-01.
  6. ↑ Popik, Barry (2004). "Digital Historical Newspapers: A Review of the Powerful New Research Tools" . Journal of English Linguistics. 32 (2). Sage. 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.
  7. ↑ Jordan, Erin (24 June 2014). "Cedar Rapids company under state review after complaints". Cedar Rapids Gazette. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
  8. ↑ "BBB Business Review". Better Business Bureau . 1 August 2014. Archived from the original on 4 October 2015. Retrieved 22 April 2024.
  9. ↑ "HeritageArchives.org". HeritageArchives.org. 2005-06-27. Retrieved 2011-12-20.
  10. ↑ "NewspaperArchive® | Genealogy & Family History Records". Newspaperarchive.com. Retrieved 2018-06-30.
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