Finding and Using Digitized Historical Newspapers for Your

ResearchBrian Geiger, Director

California Digital Newspaper Collectionbgeiger@ucr.edu

Frederick ZarndtIFLA Governing Board

frederick@frederickzarndt.com

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

•http://news.google.com/newspapers

•https://goo.gl/nSkOKC

•http://cdnc.ucr.edu

•http://www.elephind.com

Whatwewilldo…• 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!

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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 vfthesis#,, a week ago, which tcrminate<i'iu his death. . / ' ■ O'iSunday, 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,

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Free vs Subscription

National Collections with Free Access• USA http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/• Europe http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/• Europe http://www.europeana-newspapers.eu/• Australia http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper• New Zealand http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/• Norway http://www.nb.no/Tilbud/Samlingen/Samlingen/Aviser• Singapore http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/• Netherlands http://www.delpher.nl/nl/kranten/• Estonia https://dea.digar.ee• Many others

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• Kentucky http://kdl.kyvl.org/?f[format][]=newspapers• Minnesota http://www.mnhs.org/newspapers• Ohio http://www.ohiohistoryhost.org/ohiomemory/newspapers• Oregon http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/• Texas http://texashistory.unt.edu/• Utah http://digitalnewspapers.org/• Virginia http://virginiachronicle.com/• Washington https://goo.gl/6FpqCk• Wyoming http://newspapers.wyo.gov/• And others …

Free vs Subscription

Subscription Collections

Institutional Subscriptions

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

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

Individual Subscriptions

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

n NewspaperArchive http://newspaperarchive.com/

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

Free vs Subscription

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 1,686,3710 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 11,000,000 34,399 articles

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

NBDigital Aviser https://goo.gl/k3P2f5 12,000,000 539 articles

Newspaper SG http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers 2,400,000 294 articles

British Newspaper Archive http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/ 15,780,000 1857 articles

Chronicling America http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov 11,310,000 104,503 hits

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)

search phrase

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

FROM LIBRARY HISTORICAL DIGITAL NEWSPAPER

COLLECTIONS!

Search basics

Search basics

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

n Search for an exact phrase using “ or ‘, for example, “coronado library” or‘a penny saved is a penny earned’

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

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

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

n 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)

Creating an Account

Creating an Account

Creating an Account

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

super secure

Guidelines:§ Confirmation email is 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 the email is not in Inbox§ Click on the 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

Creating an Account

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

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’sHoosierStateChronicles[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 vfthesis#,, a week ago, which tcrminate<i'iu his death. . / ' ■ O'iSunday, 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!

nWikipedia https://goo.gl/nSkOKC

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

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

n https://support.google.com/websearch

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

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

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

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 https://goo.gl/okF5Dg

Pleasetaketheworkshopsatisfactionsurvey!

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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

IFLA Governing Board

International Federation of Libraries and Associations (IFLA)

frederick@frederickzarndt.com