Did you know that Veridian Software has collections of digitized newspapers that can be searched for free? Over 50 million pages, I might add.
Did you know that they power California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Virginia, Washington, and Wyoming state newspaper collections? You may have used their software and didn’t know it!
How about country-wide collections, such as Estonia, Israel, New Zealand, Singapore, and Switzerland?
Did you know that they are one of the few software service providers that have built-in crowdsourced text correction features to correct poor OCR output? I’ve used it myself, and it is fantastic. It’s kind of a “Pay it Forward” facility that allows a registered user the ability to improve the index for future researchers. This is especially helpful for correcting names and events for genealogists and historians.
Did you know that they are the folks behind the Elephind federated search facility that allows you to search many collections all at once?
Veridian is the name of the software and service package created by DL Consulting, a firm headquartered in Hamilton, New Zealand.
The very first online newspaper collection that I ever used was their implementation of the California state newspaper collection, and that was about 10 years ago. It still is the collection that I search the most for my own personal genealogy.
I wanted to introduce them to you. They do great work. Upcoming will be an interview with their CEO and regular monthly updates to their collections, just like I provide for the Advantage Archives, GenealogyBank, NewspaperArchive, British Newspaper Archive, and FindMyPast newspaper collections.
Here is a list of their 50 or so collections with the link to the collection and collection statistics. Please notice that because of the software’s unique feature to segment a page into the articles that are on the page, that if used, the number of articles is included below as well as the other collection stats:
- Boston College – Jesuit Online Library
- (41 Publications, 1,084 Issues, 150,849 Pages, 27,314 Articles)
- Boston College Newspapers
- (23 Publications, 8,556 Issues, 134,617 Pages, 508,410 Articles)
- Cambridge Public Library
- (6 Publications, 67,635 Issues, 257,221 Pages, 1,721,728 Articles)
- Case Western Reserve University – Student Newspaper Archive
- (9 Publications, 6,263 Issues, 55,769 Pages, 314,236 Articles)
- Catholic Research Resources Alliance – The Catholic News Archive
- (17 Publications, 26,233 Issues, 567,989 Pages, 1,173,100 Articles)
- Central Michigan University – Clarke Digital Collection
- (1 Publication, 88 Issues, 9,163 Pages)
- Central Michigan University – Digital Michigan Newspapers
- (101 Publications, 60,821 Issues, 608,940 Pages)
- Central Michigan University – Scholarly & Creative Works
- (5 Publications, 1,864 Issues, 169,556 Pages)
- Central Michigan University History
- (12 Publications, 12,432 Issues, 158,492 Pages)
- Colorado State Library – Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection
- (596 Publications, 285,579 Issues, 2,060,943 Pages, 20,727,386 Articles)
- Columbia University – Columbia Spectator Archive
- (1 Publication, 16,751 Issues, 128,074 Pages, 585,303 Articles)
- Columbia University – The Record Archive
- (1 Publication, 995 Issues, 8,027 Pages, 22,004 Articles)
- Cornell University – Cornell Daily Sun
- (1 Publication, 15,358 Issues, 126,991 Pages, 892,227 Articles)
- Cornell University – Friend of Man
- (1 Publication, 283 Issues, 1,128 Pages, 8,799 Articles)
- Cornell University – Preservation News
- (1 Publication, 396 Issues, 5,802 Pages, 16,157 Articles)
- Hoover Institution Library & Archives – Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection
- (143 Publications, 144,774 Issues, 855,888 Pages, 1,861 Articles)
- Illinois State University – Vidette Digital Archives
- (1 Publication, 4,622 Issues, 47,055 Pages, 114,971 Articles)
- Indiana State Library – Hoosier State Chronicles
- (279 Publications, 144,353 Issues, 1,272,635 Pages)
- Kaniʻāina “Voices of the Land” Digital Library – Native Hawaiian
- (2 Publications, 561 Issues)
- Kent State University – Kent Stater Archive
- (6 Publications, 10,127 Issues, 93,541 Pages, 498,536 Articles)
- Lehigh University – The Lehigh Digital Archives
- (1 Publication, 6,617 Issues, 60,926 Pages, 260,376 Articles)
- Library of Virginia – Virginia Chronicle
- (430 Publications, 213,142 Issues, 1,630,592 Pages, 238,537 Articles)
- National Library of Estonia
- (421,593 Issues, 4,277,163 Pages, 7,716,961 Articles)
- National Library of New Zealand – Papers Past
- (167 Publications, 947,545 Issues, 6,617,291 Pages, 82,035,344 Articles)
- Palm Springs – Accessing the Past
- (10 Publications, 110 Issues, 17,900 Pages)
- Palo Alto High School – Paly Journalism Archive
- (37,875 Pages)
- Phillips Exeter Academy – The Exonian Archive
- (1 Publication, 6,720 Issues, 36,893 Pages, 213,364 Articles)
- Plains to Peak Historic Newspapers
- (959 Publications, 427,849 Issues, 3,232,701 Pages, 20,727,386 Articles)
- Princeton University – Historical Periodicals Project
- (4,061 Issues, 24,154 Pages, 385,373 Articles)
- Princeton University – Papers of Princeton
- (9 Publications, 32,416 Issues, 399,807 Pages, 1,595,873 Articles)
- Princeton University – Princeton Blue Mountain Project
- (41 Publications, 3,747 Issues, 80,953 Pages, 86,073 Articles)
- Purdue University – The Purdue Exponent Archive
- (1 Publication, 20,609 Issues, 211,730 Pages, 132,394 Articles)
- Singapore National Library – Newspaper SG
- (6,000,000 Pages)
- Southeastern New York Library Resources Council – HRVH Historical Newspapers
- (60 Publications, 52,466 Issues, 545,301 Pages, 1,306,574 Articles)
- Swiss National Library
- (148 Publications, 749,963 Issues, 6,693,544 Pages, 53,178,434 Articles)
- The National Library of Israel – Historical Jewish Press
- (588 Publications, 340,398 Issues, 3,526,524 Pages, 23,789,840 Articles)
- The Ohio State University Newspaper Archives
- (4 Publications, 19,139 Issues, 263,822 Pages, 1,203,998 Articles)
- University of California Riverside – California Digital Newspaper Collection
- (247 Publications, 631,552 Issues, 7,095,768 Pages, 43,082,010 Articles)
- University of California San Francisco – Synapse Archive
- (1 Publications, 1,466 Issues, 12,920 Pages, 49,270 Articles)
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections
- (158 Publications, 187,620 Issues, 1,782,885 Pages, 6,887,674 Articles)
- University of Pennsylvania – Daily Pennsylvanian Digital Archives
- (1 Publication, 16,360 Issues, 125,595 Pages, 697,665 Articles)
- University of Richmond – The Collegian
- (1 Publication, 2,664 Issues, 26,834 Pages, 128,478 Articles)
- Upper Hutt City Library – Upper Hutt Leader
- (1 Publication, 1,061 Issues, 7,534 Pages, 55,728 Articles)
- Vassar College – Vassar Newspaper Archives
- (8 Publications, 4,760 Issues, 85,022 Pages, 210,135 Articles)
- Washington State Library – Washington Digital Newspapers
- (91 Publications, 61,176 Issues, 480,245 Pages, 1,394,294 Articles)
- Watson House Digital Archives
- (31 Publications, 5,184 Issues, 8,072 Pages, 35,081 Articles)
- Wyoming State Newspapers
- (363 Publications, 142,270 Issues, 1,171,758 Pages)
- Yale University – Yale Daily News Historical Archive
- (1 Publications, 20,619 Issues, 131,788 Pages, 829,915 Articles)
Check out their website at Veridian Software to learn more about them.