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https://blogs.cul.columbia.edu/journalism

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I have some great news for those looking to use the online archives of the New York Review of Books (which, as you may know, is not included in any of the databases to which Columbia Libraries subscribes): The Libraries now have an online subscription to the site itself, which includes full access to the archives, back to 1963!

To access, just bookmark this link in your web browser:
http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio5577883 (access restricted to current Columbia affiliates).

Click on the “Archives” link at the top to access older contents, or browse the current issue from the main screen.

Free on the web, from LexisNexis (I repeat, this resource is free, not just for subscribers):

As the year winds down, the staff of LexisNexis News has compiled a unique perspective on the people and events that shaped the news this year, the 2005 Year in Review. Journey back to the actual day this year’s top national and international news events occurred. From front page stories to editorials, LexisNexis presents newspaper headlines and stories from around the U.S. and World - the day it happened.

An online version of the National Portrait Gallery’s holdings of Time magazine’s cover portraits, this site can be browsed by category (e.g. Man of the Year) and also includes enhanced features such as biographical sketches and audio clips.

The Village Voice has mounted a special 50th Anniversary website. Visit it to view a timeline of the paper, 50 years of covers, features that span each decade, as well as commentary on the Voice’s history and development.

Need newspaper articles that pre-date the stories in Factiva or Nexis (access restricted to current Columbia affiliates)? Curious what was happening in your neighborhood a century ago? Historical newspapers are proliferating on the web, so here’s a quick roundup of both plain text and scanned microfilm (actual page images) databases…

ProQuest Historical Newspapers (access restricted to current Columbia affiliates) has become a mother lode for U.S. newspapers. The database, which started with the New York Times and Wall Street Journal backfiles, now also includes historical coverage of the Atlanta Constitution, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post. The source of the database is microfilm, so you display articles as they appeared in the paper, and can even flip through the pages of an entire issue.

The Times Digital Archive (access restricted to current Columbia affiliates) provides image access to the Times of London.

Accessible Archives (access restricted to current Columbia affiliates) is a searchable plain-text collection of early U.S. papers, including the Pennsylvania Gazette, the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, and a collection of 19th century African-American newspapers.

A great free historical newspaper on the web, of local interest, is the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, brought to you by the Brooklyn Public Library. It is a searchable, page image collection of the Brooklyn paper from 1841-1902.