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At some point in the past few hours the Chicago Tribune Archives appear to have been moved on to the Newspapers.com platform.

Was working normally this morning (local time), but now the http://archives.chicagotribune.com URL redirects to http://chicagotribune.newspapers.com

After 3-years of it being freely available, now you have to pay to view the images. Ugh!

Gosh, I was using it just last night-- when it first came on, I remember hearing that it would cease being free at some point. I'm glad it lasted for 3 years. For now, there's still the Pittsburgh Press and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Google News, though some of its missing and some of it is displayed sideways with no way to rotate it. I remember when the Miami News vanished after I had finished a big project, and the Milwaukee Journal and the Milwaukee Sentinel were taken down after that-- luckily, the Milwaukee papers stayed up until the Packers book was finished.

I've been a subscriber to newspapers.com for more than a year, and although it's pricey, it's less than what I would be paying for a year's subscription to have a large city newspaper delivered to my doorstep-- and I don't mind that it's out of date.

I will point out to any frustrated researcher out there that you'd be surprised what your local public library allows you to access, from your home, through a library card for free. Even my small town library gives me access to NewsBank, a text only archive that has newspaper articles from about 1990 onward-- it covers that gap that exists between the time after Google News Archive's holdings top, but before local papers routinely went online. Some of you have libraries that subscribe to things like ProQuest, and I imagine some of you could probably get access to archives like newspapers.com just by having your library card.

Mark L. Ford wrote:Gosh, I was using it just last night-- when it first came on, I remember hearing that it would cease being free at some point. I'm glad it lasted for 3 years. For now, there's still the Pittsburgh Press and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Google News, though some of its missing and some of it is displayed sideways with no way to rotate it. I remember when the Miami News vanished after I had finished a big project, and the Milwaukee Journal and the Milwaukee Sentinel were taken down after that-- luckily, the Milwaukee papers stayed up until the Packers book was finished.

I've been a subscriber to newspapers.com for more than a year, and although it's pricey, it's less than what I would be paying for a year's subscription to have a large city newspaper delivered to my doorstep-- and I don't mind that it's out of date.

I will point out to any frustrated researcher out there that you'd be surprised what your local public library allows you to access, from your home, through a library card for free. Even my small town library gives me access to NewsBank, a text only archive that has newspaper articles from about 1990 onward-- it covers that gap that exists between the time after Google News Archive's holdings top, but before local papers routinely went online. Some of you have libraries that subscribe to things like ProQuest, and I imagine some of you could probably get access to archives like newspapers.com just by having your library card.

I've really come to like newspapers.com, as they are adding more big-city papers as time goes on. I get the feeling that over the next couple years it is going to put a number of other newspaper search engines out of business, as it is much easier to use and search with than the other products. If it buys out or merges with newspaperarchive.com (which has a lot of the little city newspapers), it will take over the market, and ProQuest (which holds the very biggest papers like the NY Times and Washington Post and LA Times and a couple others) will have no choice but to sell out to them.

I totally agree with you there, Rupert-- I endured all the glitches and problems and fixes-of-things-not-broken with newspaperarchive.com for years, because it was better than nothing. But newspapers.com has been so much better that it didn't take me long to upgrade to their full service.

LJP wrote:At some point in the past few hours the Chicago Tribune Archives appear to have been moved on to the Newspapers.com platform.

Was working normally this morning (local time), but now the http://archives.chicagotribune.com URL redirects to http://chicagotribune.newspapers.com

After 3-years of it being freely available, now you have to pay to view the images. Ugh!

Terrible news. I have been reading that daily for the past three years.

Bad news. Enjoyed having the option to use their archives and was generally easy to find what I wanted to look up at any given random time.

"Newspapers" isn't bad, the only negative for me is that it has zero local papers -- and I generally like to look up old high school football or small college football stuff and newspapers.com has nothing. Still have to use google for that.

Is the Trib part of newspapers.com? I have a 2-week trial there and I can't find it.

I am also having problems finding the Milwaukee Journal or Sentinel. I see they have some from the 1800s but I don't see anything from the 1960s or 1970s.

Apbaball wrote:Is the Trib part of newspapers.com? I have a 2-week trial there and I can't find it.

I am also having problems finding the Milwaukee Journal or Sentinel. I see they have some from the 1800s but I don't see anything from the 1960s or 1970s.

https://www.newspapers.com/title_4351/chicago_tribune/

But it's part of their "Publisher's Extra" package, so it may not be included in any free trials?

The Milwaukee papers I believe are on www.genealogybank.com.

Is the Chicago Sun Times archives available anywhere online? I have the Tribune archives, but am looking for another good Chicago source for 1920-1970. Also looking for good local secondary source newspaper online archives for New York City (to supplement the NY Times), Los Angeles (to supplement the LA Times) and Philadelphia (to supplement the Inquirer). A second source is always a good thing. Also, is there an online source for the San Francisco Chronicle archives that covers the 1940's thru the 70's?

Apbaball wrote:Is the Trib part of newspapers.com? I have a 2-week trial there and I can't find it.

I am also having problems finding the Milwaukee Journal or Sentinel. I see they have some from the 1800s but I don't see anything from the 1960s or 1970s.

At the top of the main page you have to click on PAPERS and when the next page comes up on the left side under where it says NARROW BY NEWSPAPER TITLE, where it says keyword, enter the city name and it brings up all the papers from that city.