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The Times of India (1838-2001)
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2010-
URL: http://media2.proquest.com/documents/hnp_india.pdf
Last visited April 2015
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ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Keywords India, Newspapers
Review DOI 10.1108/RR-04-2015-0085
The Times of India (1838-2001) database, part of ProQuest's Historical Newspapers programme (which contains over 30 million digitized pages and includes databases of other international newspapers such as The Guardian), provides nearly seven million primary sources (e.g. newspaper articles, advertisements, etc.) covering material, as noted on the homepage, from 1838 to 2001. However, the database seems to have been last updated in 2006, as a user can set the date range, using a slider tool, from 1838 to 2006. There is no indication anywhere on the database that there will be an addition of the nearly 10 years of missing material, but articles from 2001 to the present day are archived on The Times of India's website (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/archive.cms) for free public use.
The database's homepage, decorated with a few images relating to the Indian culture, is simple and clean and offers a basic search box. Jarringly, there is also a link entitled View Title List which opens as an Excel file. Perhaps the best use of this file is to see the "gaps" in content, e.g. where full-text articles...