SmallTownPapers.com; IrishNewspaperArchives.com

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IrishNewspaperArchives.com serves an important need. I couldn't find  "Gaelic
Coffee" or "Irish Coffee" worth citing, but maybe someone can  double-check
the database.
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SmallTownPapers.com is a new service that has the Free Press of Buda, TX
(where I live) for the past five years. It claims a "20 million-page archive,"
but it sure doesn't seem that way. It's very difficult to search
chronologically, and it's very difficult to find out what years of what  newspapers are
available.
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Right now, it's a poor man's NewspaperArchive.com or GenealogyBank.com--and
that's not saying much.
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I'm very unimpressed, but it's new and it could get much better very
quickly. Any other opinions?
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_http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/departments/technology/article_displa
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(http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/departments/technology/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003551786)

SmallTownPapers Offers Online Archiving

By E&P Staff

Published: February 28, 2007 3:55 PM ET

NEW YORK Seattle-based SmallTownPapers  Inc. offers a solution for publishers
seeking to provide digital access to their  printed archives without the
content being exploited. The company works with  more than 300 publishers across
the country to create searchable digital images  of their newspaper pages,
which are distributed online through defined  partnerships. To date it has scanned
more than two million newspaper pages of  its 20-million-page archive.

"With this program,  millions of newspaper pages are being viewed and
searched online for the first  time," SmallTownPapers founder and President Paul
Jeffko said in a statement,  adding cost often has prohibited small papers from
having electronic archives.

With editions dating back to the 1800s,  SmallTownPapers' archive is
available online through a distribution partnership  with World Vital Records Inc.,
which operates a genealogy-based research Web  site. More than a million pages
in the archive are available, with 100,000 added  to World Vital Records' site
each month.



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