Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text
Newspaper Archives
Digitization Projects
United States History
Source: NewspaperARCHIVE.com
Two New Archives of Historic Material (Free) from NewspaperARCHIVE.com
Since January we’ve been chronicling a steady stream of FREE, full text, full image, searchable/browsable newspaper archives focused on a specific topic from NewspaperARCHIVE.com. The company is part of Heritage Microfilm based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. This week the company has released two new archives each containing tens of thousands of newspaper articles from various newspapers. Each article is delivered as a pdf file ready for printing or saving. Kudos to Heritage for offering these databases and underlying content at no charge. Also a great way to see local newspaper coverage.
What’s New this Week?
+ FBI Newspaper Archive
More than 50,000 full text articles about the FBI, criminals, etc. Love the timeline.
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+ September 11th Archive
More than 15,000 articles. Advanced interfaces are available for both databases.
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See Also: Links to More Archives from NewspaperARCHIVES.com Including:
+ MartinLutherKingJrArchive
+ Pro Baseball Archive
+ College Basketball Archive
+ Abraham Lincoln Archive
+ AsbestosArchive.com (Asbestos and Asbestos Related Lawsuits)
+ HMS Titanic Archive
+ Winter Games Archive
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Reference Shelf–Statistics
Source: OECD
Just Released, OECD Factbook 2006: Economic, Environmental and Social Statistics
“How does France compare with other EU countries in terms of growth in labour productivity? Where does Japan rank versus the other major developed countries in public spending on health? People and politicians want to know how their countries and regions are performing. The OECD’s Factbook is designed to help them.” Numbers in charts and graphs available in Excel format. Data, reorganised by country, also available.
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Digital Libraries–Science
Resources for Educators
Source: Exploratorium, San Francisco
New, Exploratorium Digital Library
Expect a closer look from ResourceShelf soon. From the site, “The different collections in the library include digital media and digitized museum materials related to interactive exhibits and scientific phenomena, including images, educational activities in PDF and html formats, QuickTime movies, streaming media, and audio files. You may search, select and download digital files for individual, noncommercial educational use.”

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