Friday, March 4, 2016

Our Digital World Newspaper Collection

Here is a free newspaper database offering several Canadian papers dating from the 1800's. Here is an excerpt from the site:

"INK is a project of Our Digital World (ODW) that brings together over 200 years of newspaper titles. 50 community newspapers are presented, representing over 97,000 complete issues, and over 1 million full pages of English and French content. Many of these newspapers have been scanned from microfilm, and are searchable using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology. Although the quality of the sources vary greatly for using OCR and digitization techniques, INK attempts to provide a strong alternative to using microfilm readers to view the content.
"This collection includes early Kingston newspapers (The British WhigThe Kingston Chronicle, and The Kingston Gazette), two abolitionist newspapers from Southern Ontario (The Provincial Freeman and The Voice of The Fugitive), and unique titles for topics such as Great Lakes shipping (The Marine Record) and visual sources for 19th century Canadian history (The Canadian Illustrated News)."
From the landing page you can type into a search box, call for an advanced search, and see a list of titles.
INK - ODW Newspaper Collection:

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