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New York Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)

Alternate Title:
Historical New York Times

To link to this resource use:
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=59571


Database available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus) Database available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)
Vendor:
ProQuest
Producer:
ProQuest
Coverage:
1851-2003
Frequency of Updates:
two year lag


The full text of the New York Times from its first issue in 1851 to 2003 (will always have a two year lag from the present).  Images of the actual texts of articles and of the full page on which the articles appear are presented. Supplements, including the Magazine and the Book Review, are present.  Searches can be limited to a supplement or a section only with this command  

section(magazine)   -OR-  section(business)

The text is fully searchable, although some caution is advised. The vendor describes the scanned texts as having an 80% accuracy rate, a very high error rate. The vendor also claims a higher level of accuracy for the citations and abstracts, where available, but errors are readily apparent there as well. It would not be reasonable to conclude that an item searched and not found does not exist. Those events, people and things that can be found using this resource are, however, entirely wonderful.

Additional coverage of the New York Times:

  • From 1980 to the present the NYT is available in NEXIS (Academic Universe) -- text only, no images
  • From 1851 to the present (with a lag time of about three months) the IUB Library owns the NYT on microfilm. The microfilm copy is especially important given that some articles are not available in the ProQuest resource because of the Supreme Court's Tasini ruling concerning the copyright rights of independent journalists and writers. ProQuest entries carry a note referring one to the microfilm copy.

    Printing Instructions

    • Interlibrary Loan:
    Print-only copy permitted
    Resource Advocate:
    Strow, Mary
    SFX Source:
    No
    Federated Search:
    Yes

    IUB Library Subjects:
    • Journalism
    • News & Current Events
    • Victorian Studies
    • Film Studies
    • American Studies
    • English and American Language and Literature
    • History

    Library of Congress Subjects:

    New York times--Indexes--Databases.
    United States--History--19th century--Indexes--Databases.
    United States--History--20th century--Indexes--Databases.