11/3/2023 0 Comments Find my past newspapersOur teams are working diligently to ensure the newspaper collections are successfully integrated within according to our high standards of quality records and images. We are working towards having the British Newspapers available from all World subs and we expect to complete this work early in 2013. Ultimately somebody has to pay for the work being done or it wouldn't happen, and I think the costs, either on the standalone site, or via FMP are pretty reasonable.įor the information of those in a similar predicament, I heard back from findmypast about the world subscription: However, this is a fantastic resource and I would hate people to be scared away by the negative tone every time a new paid resource opens up. The British Newspaper archive format is definitely the better of the two options for this material. I agree the search and results are a bit clunky on FMP but hopefully things will improve. FMP don't keep a running total on new editions so I would suggest you are guided by the list here: I have certainly been pulling results from the recently added post1920 years for the Dundee papers from FMP. I would suggest you contact them and ask.Īs far as I am aware, since I currently have subscriptions to both, the content on FMP and the British library archive is identical. I understand that the newspapers are to be added to the World subscription shortly - but don't quote me on that. I don’t like their draconian terms and conditions which sound almost as if I can’t disclose anything I have found there to anyone and must take the results of my research to my grave. I find it annoying when I click on the next page of results and it scrolls all the way to the top before changing. I don’t like the way that regions are displayed, especially for foreigners trying to figure out where is West Midlands etc. I preferred the way search results were displayed on the dumped site, ie in snippet form rather than what could be a jumble of OCR mish mash. įree access to “19C” for FE and HE UK students has been funded by JISC until only the middle of next year. The British Library site still shows this as being current. The pay site that went with “19C” has now been dumped. The BNA currently has almost 200 titles, and the Scottish ones that jump out at me are:Īyr Advertiser, or, West Country Journal 1839īerwickshire News and General Advertiser 1870 - 1904ĭumfries and Galloway Standard 1844 - 1860ĭundee, Perth, and Cupar Advertiser 1839 - 1864Įlgin Courant, and Morayshire Advertiser 1839 - 1862 In addition BrightSolid, which as usual has managed to obtain monopoly control over public assets, has digitised many more of their Library’s newspaper holdings and will continue to do so for years to come.įor the 19C Newspapers, including Parts 1 and 2 there are about 70 titles of which four are Scottish. All of what is available there is also available on the British Newspaper Archive site and presumably also at FMP. The database we so easily and freely access via our Libraries and various other institutions is “19th Century British Library Newspapers”. They are all doing wonderful things with their collections and making them freely available to the world. It’s a pity that the English are stuck with what’s more like the “National Library of Big Business” rather than something like the National Libraries of Scotland, or of Wales, or of New Zealand, or of Australia, for example. It’s very nice if you happen to be a FMP subscriber but not if you’re one of the great unwashed. Both are of course in partnership with the “British Library”. It’s just BrightSolid playing around with their various databases and giving access to their “British Newspaper Archive” to FMP subscribers. It seems that there are an incredibly large number of people called Steam Engine. First name, last name, just as if the OCR could tell if the text was a name or not. That’s a dumbed down search if ever I saw one. Lucky you that you can access both sites! I can't see results on either one The offerings seem to be nearly identical with just a few titles that are available only on the British Newspaper site. newer.pdfĬomparing with those on the British Newspaper Archive. As far as content goes, here is the list of newspapers on Findmypast. The search function seems to have improved since the first weeks of the database offering and don't seem to get all the erroneous hits that you get with the "new" search that they inflict on U.S. co.uk site, although I can't see the results. co.uk site if you have a subscription on the. I wish I could answer your question but although I supposedly have a "World" subscription, the world apparently doesn't include British Newspapers! Unlike Ancestry, where you can visit any of the sites in different countries no matter which one your subscription was originally linked to, Findmypast does not allow access to the.
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