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An announcement from GoogleBlog:
Bringing history online, one newspaper at a time
9/08/2008 - For more than 200 years, matters of local and national significance have been conveyed in newsprint -- from revolutions and politics to fashion to local weather or high school football scores. Around the globe, we estimate that there are billions of news pages containing every story ever written. And it's our goal to help readers find all of them, from the smallest local weekly paper up to the largest national daily.
The problem is that most of these newspapers are not available online. We want to change that.
Today, we're launching an initiative to make more old newspapers accessible and searchable online by partnering with newspaper publishers to digitize millions of pages of news archives. Try a search for [Americans walk on moon] on Google News Archive Search, and you'll be able to find and read an original article from a 1969 edition of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. . . . continue GoogleBlog article

NYT: Google to Digitize Newspaper Archives
By Miguel Helft
September 8, 2008 San Francisco
- Google has begun scanning microfilm from some newspapers’ historic archives to make them searchable online, first through Google News and eventually on the papers’ own Web sites, the company said Monday.
The new program expands a two-year-old service that allows Google News users to search the archives of some major newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, The Washington Post and Time, that were already available in digital form. Readers will be able to search the archives using keywords and view articles as they appeared originally in the print pages of newspapers. http://news.google.com/archivesearch
Under the expanded program, Google will shoulder the cost of digitizing newspaper archives, much as the company does with its book-scanning project. Google angered some book publishers because it had failed to seek permission to scan books that were protected by copyrights. It will obtain permission from newspaper publishers before scanning their archives. . . continue http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/technology/09google.html

TCC Library subscribes to a number of newspapers, both print and full-text online.
Print subscriptions are limited: delivery time delays, fragile nature of paper, storage space - are all limiting factors.
Online subscriptions provide students and researchers extensive searchable coverage, with full text access to over 2,000 U.S. and 1,200 international newspapers via NewsBank.
NewsBank also includes over 1,000 newswires, blogs, magazines, transcripts and other news sources, with coverage spanning 50 years.
NewsBanks U.S. newspapers include: Boston Globe (1979 +); Chicago Tribune (1985 +); Dallas Morning News (1984 +); Denver Post, (1989 +); Miami Herald (1982 +); New York Times (1985+) ; Philadelphia Inquirer (1981+); San Francisco Chronicle (1985+); Seattle Times, (1985+); Washington Post (1977+).
TCC also provides online subscription access to full coverage of the New York Times, (1851 - 2006), the Tallahassee Democrat (Oct 2005+), and the Chronicle of Higher Education (1969+)
Access TCC Library Newspaper Archive Databases at : Databases Online

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Alas, an update -

Google scraps newspaper-scanning project

by Stephen Shankland May 20, 2011 http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20064593-264.html

Google might have near-boundless ambition, but every now and then it throws in the towel. The most recent example: a project to scan newspapers for publication online.
"Users can continue to search digitized newspapers at http://news.google.com/archivesearch, but we don't plan to introduce any further features or functionality to the Google News Archives and we are no longer accepting new microfilm or digital files for processing," Google told Search Engine Land in a story published today. 
The newspaper-scanning project fit neatly into Google's mission, "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." With Android, Google Apps, video rental, and music streaming now a big deal at Google, that original mission looks increasingly like a snapshot of the company's early days than a full reflection of its current priorities.
Google apparently told newspaper partners of its decision yesterday. "News Archive was generally a good deal for newspapers--especially smaller ones like ours, who couldn't afford the tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars it would have cost to digitally scan and index our archives--and a decent bet for Google," said one of those partners, the Boston Phoenix.
Instead, Google told the Phoenix that it's focusing on "newer projects that help the industry, such as Google One Pass, a platform that enables publishers to sell content and subscriptions directly from their own sites."
The paper also said Google is waiving the fee it had planned to charge newspapers to purchase the digital scans, including rights to use it elsewhere with other partners.
Google had hoped to sell ads to help support the effort.
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how very disappointing !