Why use Gale Historical Newspapers?

Gale specializes in scanning materials and applying search tools that focus on improving academic research. While many newspapers are accessible in digitized formats elsewhere, they will not have the advanced search tools that help users to discover new research topics and avenues for inquiry. Many of our newspaper archives can also be used in the Gale Digital Scholar Lab, adding significant research options for digital humanists.

Many other newspaper archive providers will also require a library to purchase individual access for each user: with Gale, you purchase the archive, and anybody with a login to your library database will have perpetual access to the content.   

We publish add-on modules to extend the date ranges of our historical newspaper archives.

These add-ons are available to customers who already own the existing years; any customers who purchase the archive after the add-on is released will get the full range of years.

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Seth Cayley talks about the creation of the The Times Digital Archive

Seth Caley, Vice President of Gale Global Academic Products, talks about the significance of the Times, the difficulties in creating the archive, and the methods of digitisation. Furthermore, he discusses his involvement in the humanities, Optical Character Recognition (OCR), his favourite articles, and more. Interviewer: Dr Sarah Ketchley, University of Washington (approximately 21 minutes).

(Original video edited by Erika Bojnowski for the University of Washington MLIS Capstone project Tutankhamun Centenary 1922 - 2022. Reused with permission.)