Wikipedia:Newspapers.com
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Newspapers.com is a newspaper database in the family of companies associated with Ancestry.com.
Contents
Their database includes more than 840 million pages from 24,000-plus newspapers, mostly local United States papers with some Canadian and elsewhere. (Lists: https://www.newspapers.com/papers/ and https://www.newspapers.com/browse/). It is particularly suited for Wikipedia content about the 18th, 19th and the first 3⁄4 of the 20th century in the United States and global topics affecting the United States. The collection includes some major newspapers for limited periods, but mostly consists of regional papers from the 1700s onward. Very few titles go beyond the late 1980s.
Free accounts through the Wikipedia Library now do include access to Newspapers.com Publisher Extra content.
Using the "Clipping" function
Both Newspapers.com and The Wikipedia Library would prefer that articles citing Newspapers.com link to clippings. Clippings allow Newspapers.com subscriber-editors to identify particular articles, extract them from the original full sheet newspaper and share them through unique URLs. Thus readers who click on a Newspapers.com Clipping link will be able to access that particular article, and the full page of the paper if they come from the clipping, without needing to subscribe to Newspapers.com. Clippings can be deleted by the user who created the clipping, but otherwise remain permanently open access, even when user accounts expire. For more information about how to use clippings, follow this link.
Or, follow these instructions to create an account on newspapers.com.
- Go to WP:LIBRARY
- Log in
- Go to the newspapers.com site
- Find an article,
- Click on the "Clip" link at the upper right.
- A window titled "Register with Newspapers.com™ to create a clipping" will appear and the choices are
- "Register with email",
- "Continue with Ancestry",:
- "Continue with Facebook".
- Select "Register with email", You should be able to register and create an account on newspapers.com and save clippings. Be aware that clipped articles will be associated with you newspapers.com username and that it might then be fairly easy to connect your newspapers.com username to your WP username. To avoid this, create a separate email account
After you have a newspapers.com account, you would click on the link at the bottom "Already have a Newspapers.com™ account? Sign In".
If you have problems, try clearing your cookies associated with oclc.org or try a different browser. Also, see Wikipedia_talk:Newspapers.com#issue_converting_clipping_to_citation, T332685 and T322916.
Updating URLs that start with https://www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/article/
Links that start with https://www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/article/ should be rewritten as https://www.newspapers.com/article because the former URL requires that the reader be logged in, have 500 edits and meet other requirements of the WP:LIBRARY. Formerly, we had to update these by hand, but as of some time in 2023 User:BsoykaBot runs regularly and changes these. Also, User:Citation_bot will fix these for you, though you need to activate the bot on each article. WP articles that lead to clipped newspaper articles that need to be updated may be searched for with this search for links to newspapers.com articles that start with https://www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/article
Updating URLs that start with https://www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/image
Links that start with https://www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/image lead to images of an entire newspaper page and will not be readable by non-logged in WP users or WP users who don't meet the WP:LIBRARY requirements. These urls should be updated to point to a clipped article by creating a newspapers.com account (see above) and clipping the article. The articles that have these links may be found with this search for links to newspapers.com articles that require a WP account with 500 edits and are to the entire page, not a clip Happily, there are few of these articles because User:BsoykaBot changes the URL to www.newspapers.com. Unhappily, this causes a different problem, see below.
Updating URLs that start with https://www.newspapers.com/image
Links that start with https://www.newspapers.com/image lead to images of an entire newspaper page are only readable by readers who have regular non-WP newspapers.com accounts. Readers who are logged in to WP and who meet the WP:LIBRARY requirements will only be able to read the article if they also have a separate non-WP newspapers.com account. These urls should be updated to point to a clipped article by creating a newspapers.com account (see above) and clipping the article. The articles that have these links may be found with this search for links to newspapers.com articles that require a non-WP newspapers.com account and are to the entire page, not a clip
An added feature is that links to clipped articles that begin with https://www.newspapers.com can be archived by archive.org. Links to image pages will not be usefully archived.
Citations across multiple pages/clippings
It is often the case that newspaper articles will be split between multiple pages, requiring multiple clippings. In that case, the citation can be formatted to link to the clippings of each page.
<ref>{{cite news |last1=Miles |first1=Marvin |last2=Abramson |first2=Rudy |title=Armstrong Beams His Words to Earth After Testing Surface |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/56035464/the-los-angeles-times/ |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=July 21, 1969 |pages=[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/56035464/the-los-angeles-times/ 1], [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/56035546/the-los-angeles-times/ 10] |access-date=July 25, 2020 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>
- Miles, Marvin; Abramson, Rudy (July 21, 1969). "Armstrong Beams His Words to Earth After Testing Surface". Los Angeles Times. pp. 1, 10. Retrieved July 25, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
Alternative access
The Internet Archive provides scans and full text search for historical archives of newspapers from around the world, for a total of several millions of pages.
Userbox
Add {{Wikipedia:Newspapers.com/Userbox}} to your userboxes! This helps us share our project with other experienced users.
| NEWS | This user has access to Newspapers.com through The Wikipedia Library. |
Example citation
<ref>{{cite news |title=Obituary Notes: Charles Wingate |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/141558/the_new_york_timesnew_york_new/ |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=September 2, 1909 |page=9 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |access-date=July 21, 2014}}</ref>
- "Obituary Notes: Charles Wingate". The New York Times. September 2, 1909. p. 9. Retrieved July 21, 2014 – via Newspapers.com.