[ewgoforth]

I recalling my experience with newspaper archives in college. It's thirty been years since I was in college, but I assume that libraries still have some kind of copy of newspaper articles onsite, or do they?

Back then there were microfiche scans. I assume they're not making new microfiche scans, but do they have scans of old newspapers available on a computer? If you want to do primary source research for a history term paper how do you do it?

[hagbard_c]

Those microfiches have been digitised and OCR'd while newspapers from the 90's onwards were created digitally and as such are archived in some processed source form - PDF or similar.

Here's a list of newspaper archives containing such material:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_online_newsp...