If you can get to the St Pancras reading room or the British Newspaper library [Colindale] you can see them there for free. Alternatively, if you are in Further Education or Higher Education, they are also free because they are supposed to be for people to compare how we live now and how they lived then. Surely we qualify! Seems no one else will be able to access them not even by subscription. If they are free and already digitised why not just open them online to anyone. Kind regards Judith K Martin Briscoe <[email protected]> wrote: They seem to have removed it now, when I tried earlier I think you clicked on (Gale) Library Home Page and got the 19th Century British newspapers and something to do with Shakespeare but they are no longer there. They must have enabled trial access to the 19th Century British newspapers for all their subscribers. Just have to hope that some subscribe to it now. Martin Briscoe Fort William M&LFHS | Gwynedd FHS > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Kathy Swift Thompson > Sent: 17 March 2008 19:19 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [ENG-LAN-BOLTON] Gale Newspaper Service > > Martin, when you access the newspapers through the Manchester > Library, does this mean you go to the Manchester Library > website and then go from there, essentially accessing this > website through the library account? I'm curious as this is > the 3rd year I can remember that Gale has made some part of > their archives accessible during the month of March but after > a certain amount of time I can no longer access the Gale > website and didn't realize it could be accessed from other websites. > I spent most of my afternoon yesterday searching the > Liverpool Mercury. I also looked for Bolton newspapers but > couldn't find any on the list of publications. Does anyone > know the names of the Bolton's newspapers during the 19th > century and am I just missing them? > TIA. Kathy Swift Thompson, Bozeman Montana :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: Except for personal messages, please post replies to the list. Other people can learn from them! :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

This material is not free and isn't - or wasn't - already digitised. Before fragile and rare material like this can made available online a heck of a lot of money has to be spent on digitising it, and creating a database. Libraries tend not to have the funds or the staff so they go into various types of partnership with outfits like Gale. Access to the Gale databases IS by subscription, but these are expensive subscriptions available only to major libraries, universities etc. The conditions of subscribing mean they can only provide remote access for their own members. If they breach this, then other institutions no longer need to buy their own subscription and the whole thing collapses. For example, I can get access through a large library but I had to complete a membership and state that I was not a university student before they would give me the password. Whilst you can't get access on a casual basis, it is relatively easy to get access through participating libraries all over the world. From reading the press release it is clear that the British higher education authorities put a lot of cash into this particular project so the UK is ahead of everyone else for access just for now. http://pressroom.gale.com/2008/01/300-years-of-th.html My view is that I get online access to material in my nearest major library for free because they have given access to items from their collections plus paid a sub. The state has also coughed up a big chunk of money on by behalf. And I get access to material from loads of other centres, again for nothing. Hope this makes things clearer. Judy On 18 Mar 2008, at 08:26, JUDITH KETTLEWELL wrote: > If you can get to the St Pancras reading room or the British > Newspaper library [Colindale] you can see them there for free. > > Alternatively, if you are in Further Education or Higher > Education, they are also free because they are supposed to be for > people to compare how we live now and how they lived then. > > Surely we qualify! > > Seems no one else will be able to access them not even by > subscription. > > If they are free and already digitised why not just open them > online to anyone. > > Kind regards > > Judith K