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January 26

Affordable resource for researching newspaper archives

Hi all,

About ten years ago when I was a regular Wikipedia contributor I often used my employer's Factiva account to search for mentions of a subject in the newspapers (I know, naughty, but I'm pretty sure it didn't cost them anything). I'd like something similar for a blog I'm writing but Factiva costs several hundred dollars a month which is well beyond me. Are there any alternatives for newspaper research which are more affordable? Google News and other search engines just aren't up to it.

I had a Google but the results are dominated by Factiva and other big corporate data libraries which are beyond my budget. Library archives don't go up to the present day. Thanks for any recommendations. --83.218.138.8 (talk) 09:55, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

You could have a look at WP:RX, it's more for specific requests than the kind of general search you're talking about but it might turn up something useful. --Viennese Waltz 10:00, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

WP:RX is good for finding a specific source, but general access to sources is under the purview of the Wikipedia Library. -- Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 11:23, 26 January 2018 (UTC)