Veridian Software – Historical Newspaper Report – September, 2021

Veridian Software has many clients with collections of digitized newspapers that can be searched for free. Over 50 million pages currently.

They power California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Virginia,  Washington, and Wyoming state newspaper collections. And country-wide collections, such as Estonia, Israel, New Zealand, Singapore, and Switzerland.

Veridian is the name of the software and service package created by DL Consulting,  headquartered in Hamilton, New Zealand.

We will be posting an article monthly to display the additions of pages to existing collections, and the new collections added. This mionth’s list is all their current collections, provided now to establish a baseline.

Here is a list of their current collections with the link to the collection and the number of pages in the collection. 

• Beloit College, Beloit College Digital Publications Archive (9,814 pages)
  
• Boston College, Jesuit Online Library (150,849 pages)
  
• Boston College, Boston College Newspapers (134,617 pages)
  
• Cambridge Public Library, Cambridge Public Library’s Historic Cambridge Newspaper Collection (257,221 pages)
  
• Case Western Reserve University, Case Western Reserve University (55,769 pages)
  
• Catholic Research Resources Alliance, Catholic Research Resources Alliance (568,141 pages)
  
• Central Michigan University, Digital Michigan Newspapers Collection (621,854 pages)
  
• Central Michigan University, Central Michigan University History (176,258 pages)
  
• Central Michigan University, Central Michigan University Scholarly & Creative Works (176,927 pages)
  
• Central Michigan University, Clarke Digital Collections (9,163 pages)
  
• Colorado State Library / Wyoming State Library, Wyoming Digital Newspaper Collection (1,171,758 pages)
  
• Colorado State Library / Wyoming State Library, Plains to Peaks Historic Newspapers (3,250,354 pages)
  
• Colorado State Library / Wyoming State Library, Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection (2,078,596 pages)
  
• Columbia University, Columbia Spectator (128,074 pages)
  
• Columbia University, Columbia Record (8,027 pages)
  
• Cornell University, The Cornell Daily Sun (126,991 pages)
  
• Cornell University, The Friend of Man (1,128 pages)
  
• Cornell University, Preservation News (5,802 pages)
  
• Eastview, Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection (855,593 pages)
  
• Eastview, Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese Newspapers (463,954 pages)
  
• Eastview, Independent and Revolutionary Mexican Newspapers (314,848 pages)
  
• Eastview, Imperial Russian Newspapers (327,293 pages)
  
• Eastview, Middle Eastern and North African Newspapers (896,018 pages)
  
• Filson Historical Society Archives, Filson Historical Society Archives (14,398 pages)
  
• Holland Society of New York, Holland Society of New York (33,017 pages)
  
• Illinois State University, The Vidette Digital Archives (47,055 pages)
  
• Indiana State Library, Hoosier State Chronicles: Indiana’s Digital Historic Newspaper Program (1,272,635 pages)
  
• Jewish Historical Society of New Jersey, Jewish Historical Society of New Jersey (191,693 pages)
  
• Kent State University, Kent State University (96,408 pages)
  
• Lehigh University, The Lehigh Digital Archives (60,926 pages)
  
• Library of Virginia, Virginia Chronicle: Digital Newspaper Archive (2,034,126 pages)
  
• National Library of Israel, Israel National Library (3,714,228 pages)
  
• Ohio State University Library, Ohio State University Newspaper Archives (263,822 pages)
  
• Ohio State University Library, Our Choking Times Archives (1,245 pages)
  
• Palm Springs City Council, Accessing the Past (17,900 pages)
  
• Papakilo, Papakilo Database (69,627 pages)
  
• Phillips Exeter Academy, The Exonian Archives (36,893 pages)
  
• Princeton University, Princeton Blue Mountain collection (80,953 pages)
  
• Princeton University, Princeton Periodicals (412,323 pages)
  
• Purdue University, Purdue University Collection (211,730 pages)
  
• Rift Valley Institute, Sudan Open Archive (38,316 pages)
  
• Southeastern NY Library Resources Council, HRVH Historical Newspapers (559,522 pages)
  
• Swiss National Library, Swiss Newspapers (6,758,800 pages)
  
• The University of California, San Francisco, UCSF Synapse Archive (12,920 pages)
  
• University of California Riverside, J. Archives; The Jewish News of Northen California (1,575 pages)
  
• University of California, Riverside, California Digital Newspaper Collection (7,363,634 pages)
  
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections (1,805,515 pages)
  
• University of Pennsylvania, Daily Pennsylvanian Digital Archives (125,595 pages)
  
• University of Richmond, The Collegian Newspaper Archives (26,834 pages)
  
• Upper Hutt City Library, Upper Hutt Leader Newspaper Collection (7,534 pages)
  
• Vassar College, Vassar Newspaper & Magazine Archive (85,022 pages)
  
• Washington State Library, Washington Digital Newspapers (480,245 pages)
  
• Watson House, Irish Mission at Watson House (8,072 pages)
  
• Yale University, Yale Daily News Historical Archive (131,788 pages)

Check out their website at Veridian Software to learn more about them. And as always, you can see all the free online newspaper links colledcted by The Ancestor Hunt  in Newspaper Links