Wikipedia:Free English newspaper sources

This is a list of text-searchable, free to access (no-pay, non-subscription/-membership/-login) online English newspaper sources. As a rule, entries on this list access many thousands or millions of newspaper pages; they are intended to provide a significant resource to aid in building Wikipedia articles, in which citations to reliable sources is the lifeblood of proper content and at the core of all of Wikipedia's content policies and guidelines, such as notability, verifiability, neutral point of view, and no original research. Websites that provide only limited free material, thus cutting off the bulk of a much larger database, such as The New York Times, are not included.

• Caribbean Newspaper Digitization Project (titles from various countries, 1900–present) – archive of historic and current newspapers from the Caribbean, providing access to over 2.6 million pages.
• Chronicling America – digitization project of the U.S. Library of Congress; a smorgasbord of American newspapers published between 1777 and 1963; approximately 20,000,000 pages.
• European Library Newspapers – European newspapers from 20 countries, dating from 1618 to the 1980s.
• National Library of Israel newspaper collection (in Arabic, English and Hebrew)
• Newspaper SG - Singaporean newspapers dating back to 1827
• Papers Past – digitization project of the National Library of New Zealand; over 6 million New Zealand newspaper pages, 270 thousand pages of magazine and journal content, as well as certain letters, diaries and parliamentary papers. Up to 1971 for one newspaper; only up to 1950 for many newspapers.
• Trove – digitization project of the National Library of Australia; over 23 million Australian newspaper pages.
• Welsh Newspapers Online, over 15 million articles from 1804 to 1919 in over 100 newspapers primarily published in Wales.
• UPI Archives, archive of United Press International news stories since 1900.
• The Independent – archives of The Independent, a British news media brand, from 30 June 1992 to present.

• Biodiversity Heritage Library - 60 million pages, natural history literature
• Media History Digital Library - Public domain and lapsed-copyright entertainment industry trade papers and magazines dating back to the 19th century
• U.S. National Agricultural Library Digital Collections

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• Bermuda National Library

• Ceylon Daily News - 2,732 issues between 1941 and 1950 made available through the South Asian Newspapers collection
• Ceylon Times - 97 issues between 1870 and 1874 made available through the South Asian Newspapers collection
• Times of Ceylon - 13,708 issues between 1901 and 1952 made available through the South Asian Newspapers collection

• Daily Business Post - 3,357 issues between 1963 and 1973 made available through the South Asian Newspapers collection
• Lahore Chronicle - 1,824 issues between 1850 and 1868 made available through the South Asian Newspapers collection

• Malabar Herald - 669 issues between 1962 and 1975 made available through the South Asian Newspapers collection
• ज्ञानप्रकाश (Dnyānaprakāśa)/ the daily Dnyan Prakash - records^[a] between 1914 and 1938 made available through the South Asian Newspapers collection
• Kerala Chronicle - 528 issues between 1962 and 1963 made available through the South Asian Newspapers collection

• Eastern Examiner - 3,603 issues between 1962 and 1973 made available through the South Asian Newspapers collection
• Papaob kistan Observer^[b] - 3,455 issues between 1962 and 1971 made available through the South Asian Newspapers collection

• The Burmese Review - records^[c] between 1946 and 1948 made available through the Southeast Asian Newspapers collection

• North Borneo News - 4,373 pages between 1951 and 1954 made available through the Southeast Asian Newspapers collection
• North Borneo News and Sabah Times - 2,416 pages between 1954 and 1956 made available through the Southeast Asian Newspapers collection
• The Daily Bulletin - 28 papers in 1903 made available through the Southeast Asian Newspapers collection
• The Straits Echo - 599 papers in 1903 made available through the Southeast Asian Newspapers collection

• Chronique d'indochine - records^[d] between 1949 and 1950 made available through the Southeast Asian Newspapers collection

• Siam free press - 12 pages between 1893 and 1898 made available through the Southeast Asian Newspapers collection
• The Siam weekly advertiser - 3,099 pages between 1869 and 1886 made available through the Southeast Asian Newspapers collection

• Far eastern review - 94 pages in 1910 made available through the Southeast Asian Newspapers collection
• Philippines monthly - 52 pages in 1913 made available through the Southeast Asian Newspapers collection
• Progress - 4,638 pages between 1930 and 1934 made available through the Southeast Asian Newspapers collection
• Sakdal - 14 pages in1933 made available through the Southeast Asian Newspapers collection
• Soldier's Letter - 94 pages in 1898 made available through the Southeast Asian Newspapers collection
• The Advertiser - 412 pages between 1912 and 1942 made available through the Southeast Asian Newspapers collection
• The American soldier^[e] - 102 pages between 1898 and 1899 made available through the Southeast Asian Newspapers collection
• The Aparri news - 4 pages in 1901 made available through the Southeast Asian Newspapers collection
• The Cablenews-American - 46,509 pages between 1907 and 1920 made available through the Southeast Asian Newspapers collection
• The Cebu Chronicle - 1,148 pages between 1912 and 1913 made available through the Southeast Asian Newspapers collection
• The Cebu chronicle - 1,287 pages between 1910 and 1913 made available through the Southeast Asian Newspapers collection
• The Manila American - 62 pages in 1902 made available through the Southeast Asian Newspapers collection
• The Mindanao herald - 2,768 pages between 1905 and 1938 made available through the Southeast Asian Newspapers collection
• The Republic - 52 pages between 1951 and 1954 made available through the Southeast Asian Newspapers collection
• The Sunday sun - 212 pages between 1903 and 1905 made available through the Southeast Asian Newspapers collection
• The cablenews - 6,464 pages between 1905 and 1907 made available through the Southeast Asian Newspapers collection
• The times - 10 pages in 1951 made available through the Southeast Asian Newspapers collection
• The tribune - 10,027 pages between 1925 and 1945 made available through the Southeast Asian Newspapers collection
• Freedom - 830 pages between 1898 and 1899 made available through the Southeast Asian Newspapers collection
• Leyte-Samar free Philippines - 12 pages between 1944 and 1945 made available through the Southeast Asian Newspapers collection
• Manila free Philippines - 8 pages in 1945 made available through the Southeast Asian Newspapers collection

• Kabul Times - 12,119 issues between 1962 and 2023 made available through the Afghan Central Press archive

• Japan News - 376 issues between 1955 and 1956 made available through the Japan News Digital Archive
• The Daily Yomiuri - 17,313 issues between 1970 and 2013

• Tangier gazette and al-moghreb al-aksa - records^[f] between 1949 and 1950 made available through Middle Eastern and North African Newspapers collection
• Tangier gazette and morocco mail - 3,076 pages between 1934 and 1940 made available through Middle Eastern and North African Newspapers collection
• Tangier gazette: al-moghreb al-aksa & morocco - 3,373 pages between 1927 and 1933 made available through Middle Eastern and North African Newspapers collection

• New Nigerian - 538 issues between 1966 to 1970 made available through the New Nigerian Digital Archive

• Daily Observer - 2,478 issues between 1981 and 2016 made available through the Daily Observer Digital Archive

• The Monitor - 2,756 issues between 1993 and 2003 made available through the East African Newspapers collection

• The Ethiopian Herald - 15,887 issues between 1943 and 2014 made available through the East African Newspapers collection

• Daily Nation - 15,427 issues between 1962 and 2017 made available through the East African Newspapers collection

• Baghdad News - 11,586 pages between 1964 and 1967 made available through Middle Eastern and North African Newspapers collection
• Baghdad Times - 2,348 pages between 1918 and 1923 made available through Middle Eastern and North African Newspapers collection
• The Iraq Times - 57,880 pages between 1948 and 1964 made available through Middle Eastern and North African Newspapers collection
• Times of Mesopotamia - records^[g] between 1921 and 1924 made available through Middle Eastern and North African Newspapers collection

• BC Historical Newspapers (1865–1994) – database covering 169 British Columbia newspapers, with over 12 million pages available; provided by the University of British Columbia.
• Manitobia (1869–present) – 37 Manitoban newspapers provided by Department of Canadian Heritage.

• Arizona Memory - 200,000 sources, incl Arizona Historical Digital Newspapers and Arizona Highways
• Anchorage Daily Times (1915 to 1992) provided by the Atwood Foundation.
• Boston College newspaper collection (1888–2013) – provides over 148,000 pages
• Brooklyn Daily Eagle – Digitization of the historic Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper, from 1841 to 1955; approximately 1,500,000 newspaper pages. Also searches Brooklyn Life (10,000-plus pages) and Activities of Long Island Society (53,000-plus pages).
• California Digital Newspaper Collection – provides over 10.0 million pages.
• Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection (1859–2021; approximately 2.5 million pages)
• Florida Digital Newspaper Collection
• Georgia (US State) Historic Newspapers - provides 984 newspaper titles from 1763 to the present day.
• Google News Archive — an unsupported (abandoned) database. Most useful to find a specific date of a specific newspaper. Limited searching ability. (See Google News Archive.)
• Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection - includes 209,000 issues of 198 newspapers from the U.S. state of Illinois
• Hoosier State Chronicles - includes 1.4 million pages of newspapers from the U.S. state of Indiana
• Digital Michigan Newspapers - 78,904 issues comprising 800,041 pages
• New Mexico Historical Newspapers - 200,000 pages
• New York State Historic Newspapers – provides over 11.7 million newspaper pages.
• North Carolina Newspapers (1824–2011) – text searchable database of 1161 student and community newspapers from schools and towns around North Carolina.
• Old Fulton NY Post Cards – a private digitization project; contains over 51 million old New York State historical newspaper pages
• Historic Oregon Newspapers - 2.2 million pages
• Pennsylvania Newspaper Archive at Penn State
• Texas Digital Newspaper Program - text searchable database in partnership with The Portal to Texas History
• Utah Digital Newspapers - 6.3 million pages from 374 newspapers
• Virginia Chronicle, Library of Virginia over 2.5 million pages and nearly 239,000 articles as of March 2022

• Newspaper Archives, Indexes & Morgues – A list of online newspaper archives like this page, curated by the Library of Congress (includes both pay and free sources)
• Wikipedia:List of online newspaper archives – Note: includes newspapers that are behind a paywall and a large portion are not text-searchable
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange/Shared Resources
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request
• List of academic databases and search engines
• List of digital library projects
• List of scientific journals
• Korean Newspaper Archive
• Custom search engine that includes many free, more reliable sources

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