[Ads-l] Databases for Historical U.S. Searching

[dave@wilton.net]

What I really like about America's Historical Newspapers (and all the Readex databases) is their snippet view. It's by far the best I've found and makes separating out the OCR errors and other false hits so much easier.
 
I know, it's kind of like searching for the lost keys under the street lamp, but it's very productive at turning up valid early citations.
 
 
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Thanks for the suggestions, Dave; let me return the favor with my own suggestions. I'm a major consultant to the Gale company, so I won't argue against Gale as a go-to database. America's Historical Newspapers is great for early Americana. The ProQuest cross-searching is enormously powerful. But you're really missing out if you don't include Newspapers.com as one of your go-to databases. For newspapers, Newspapers.com is more powerful than ProQuest, Readex, and Gale combined.

Fred Shapiro


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Gale News Vault has American sources. It's mostly British, but you can filter by country to exclude those.

A number of pubs there will also be found in the databases you list, but there are unique ones. Gale has become one of my top three go-to databases (along with ProQuest and American's Historical Newspapers) because of its breadth of coverage.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online is another good source. It's another Gale database, so I assume the newspaper coverage overlaps with the News Vault, but it has non-newspaper sources as well, including scans of manuscripts. (Although I've found the manuscript date metadata is unreliable.)

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I am trying to do comprehensive searching for a certain phrase in U.S. newspapers or books or periodicals from the 1824-1878 period. I have already searched the following databases:

Newspapers.com
NewspaperArchive
ProQuest Historical Newspapers
America's Historical Newspapers
GenealogyBank
Chronicling America
19th Century U.S. Newspapers
Fulton History
Accessible Archives
JSTOR
HeinOnline
Google Books
Internet Archive
HathiTrust

Am I missing any U.S. databases from this time-peirod ?

Fred Shapiro


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