Using ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times
also known as The New York Times Archive

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Description | Limiting Your Search by Date | Searching for Individual Issues | Limiting by Article Type
Browsing through pages of the Newspaper | Printing | Downloading | Emailing
Problems Viewing Articles | Related databases | Search this database

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Description

This database covers the New York Times from its inception to 2001, including its early years as the New York Daily Times from 1851-1857. It offers coverage of national and international news, plus coverage of important speeches and documents, Supreme Court decisions, presidential press conference transcripts, book reviews, and much more.

Key features of this database:

-Limiting Your Search by Date

Limiting the date of articles you are searching for is often the most important aspect of a search in this database, because of the tremendous volume of articles. The keywords you enter into the search box will retrieve results that include all articles that contain those words anywhere in the text of the article, so if you know you want things only from a specific time period. Be sure to limit to a date range. You may also limit your results to a single date or to things published before a specific date.


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-Searching for an Individual Issue of the Newspaper

Search for all articles from a specific issue of the New York Times by clicking on the Publication Search tab from the top menu. Then click on Show all publications. You will be given two choices:
New York Daily Times (1851-1857) New York, N.Y.
New York Times (1857-Current file); New York, N.Y.
(You would only choose New York Daily Times, if you were looking for articles from 1851-1857.)
Now limit the issues to a specific month and year range and click on Search. Choose a specific issue from the list. This will provide a list of all the articles from that day's newspaper. Click on Sort by Page Number from the menu at the top right to see article results from the front page first. Click on Page Map from the first article to see the front page.

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-Limiting to specific article types

1. To access this feature, click on More Search Options in the bottom left hand corner of the search screen.
2. You may select a specific article type to search by clicking on the Article Type drop-down menu. It is automatically set to Any Article Type, however you may change it to any of the following: Article, Birth notice, Classified ad, Comic, Display ad, Editorial article, Editorial cartoon, Fire loss, Front page, Legal notice, Letter, Lottery numbers, Marriage, Obituary, Photo standalone, Real estate transaction, Review, Stock quote, Table of contents, and Weather.
(Article is the most general limit and will prevent you from retrieving results that contain ads rather than stories.)

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-Using the Page Map / Page Image features to browse pages of the Newspaper

Click on Page Map beside an article to see a picture of what the entire page of the newspaper looks like. Once in this view, you may click on Page Image to print a picture of the entire page from Adobe. You may also click on an individual story from the Page Map View to go to the Article Image in Adobe.


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-Printing Articles

In order to print articles from this database you must click on the Print button in the Adobe Acrobat reader window. If you choose Print from the File menu, it will not print the article.
- If the image is slightly larger than your paper size, make sure to check the Shrink Oversized Pages to Paper Size option in the print dialog box.
-If the document is significantly larger than your paper size, select the graphics select tool (for Adobe Acrobat Reader 5) or the Snapshot tool (for Adobe Acrobat Reader 6), then click and drag to select a portion of the page to print and click on the Printer button. Repeat these steps as many times as necessary to print the entire article.
-If the document is smaller than your paper size, after you click on the printer icon - check the Expand small pages to paper size box in the print dialog box. If your printer dialog box uses a page scaling menu, choose Fit to paper.

-Scrolling down and/or over to see text in PDF

The articles in this database were scanned from the original newspaper, so articles that begin at the bottom of one column and then continue at the top of another column or page, may appear at first as if they are missing. You should scroll down and/or over to view the text of these articles.

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-Articles and photographs not available in the database

Many of the photographs and a small number of articles may not be available via this database, because of copyright issues. These articles can be printed or viewed via the Page image view which can be accessed from the Page Map view. Another option is to view and/or print the article from microfilm. The New York Times is available on microfilm on the second floor of the Birnbaum Library in New York City. If you are in Pleasantville, you may request that an article be photocopied and sent to Pleasantville via the Library Catalog. See the Reference Desk, if you need help.

-Emailing articles to yourself

To email articles to yourself, click on the gold Email button. Then make sure to select the button next to Page/Article image - PDF. Otherwise, you will only send a citation for the article. The article will be sent to you as an attachment to an email message.

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-Downloading Articles

To download a copy of an article you must click on the disk image from the Adobe acrobat window.

For more help, The Proquest Historic Newspapers quick reference guide is available at the following URL:

http://training.proquest.com/trc/training/en/hnp.pdf

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