[greggsy]

In Australia at least, the state and national library sites offer free, searchable access to newspapers going back since the early 1800’s. Even obscure community papers are available. Is a similar thing not offered by the equivalent US institutions? What is the threshold of ‘worthiness’ for a publication to ge archived and served by Library of Congress?

[ghostly_s]

The same is available here, but through local libraries, so not necessarily available to everyone, because most everything is at the whim of local government in the US.