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ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times. Ann Arbor, Mich.: ProQuest Information and Learning, 2002. www.il.proquest.com. Pricing based on FTE for academic libraries and population served for public libraries. Libraries either subscribe to the entire database and pay an annual fee or purchase the out-of-copyright years 1851-1925 and subscribe to the remaining time period. The database covers the years 1851-1999. Speak to a ProQuest representative for further pricing information.
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ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times is a remarkable product because of both the completeness of coverage and the powerful search interface. ProQuest has fully digitized the complete back file (1851-1999) of The New York Times as part of its Historical Newspapers series. The New York Times includes three million pages and more than twenty-five million articles covering 148 years of history. This is a cover-to-cover digitization of the entire newspaper, including all news articles, editorials, obituaries, marriage and birth announcements, reviews, and advertisements. The entire database is searchable using ProQuest software. In many cases this digitization of the microfilm has produced better quality copy than the micro-film original.
One can view either a specific article, or the entire page, which is a wonderful feature if one wants to understand what else was happening on that day or how important an article was based upon page placement. Viewing a specific article will always include the entire article including accompanying graphics and parts of the article that might continue on to other pages. From the "map" of the whole page, one can point and click on one element of the page and...