Searchable British newspapers

[James Knight]

Thomson Gale / Time Digital Archive -- 1785 - 1985

Every ad, "letter", obit, etc. is in there; a pain if you're just
looking for news, but great for finding usage. Granted, the OCR
quality on earlier scans is poor (bordering on useless).

The Literary Supplement is also available - 1902 - 1990 (acc to their website).

These are $$$ subs, subscribed mostly by ARLs.

-jk

At 06:47 AM 12/15/2006, Joel S. Berson wrote:
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>What database has the Times?  How far back?
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>Thanks,
>Joel
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>At 12/14/2006 09:34 PM, you wrote:
> >On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> >>  In this country, that is.  I take it that British and Irish papers are
> >>not yet searchable.
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> >They are searchable to some extent -- the Times, the Scotsman, some papers
> >in Newspaperarchive.
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> >Fred Shapiro
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