Newspaperarchive content; Mancation

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 9/19/06, Bapopik at aol.com <Bapopik at aol.com> wrote:
>
> NEWSPAPERARCHIVE CONTENT--Newwspaperarchive announced that it added
> material from the Austin American, the Austin Statesman, and the Austin
> American-Statesman in the past month. When I search for anything in any Austin  (TX)
> newspaper, nothing comes up. I e-mailed Newspaperarchive, I left a phone  message at
> Newspaperarchive, and I e-mailed the Austin American-Statesman, and  no one
> has responded.
> ...
> What's happening with Newspaperarchive Austin (TX)  material?

If you "Browse Available Papers" and pick an Austin paper, all you get
is the message, "At the request of the publisher, this image has been
removed from the database." So perhaps NPA hasn't finished negotiating
the rights to display these yet?


--Ben Zimmer

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