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Saturday, 14 April 2007

Many newspapers have started the practice of charging a fee to search their archives and retrieve old articles. The Florida Times-Union is charging $2.95 for individual articles.

To view the complete article, you must click on the headline in the results list. You will be asked to register as a new user or sign-in as an existing user. Payment is by credit card. 

Here is how to do it for free. All you need is a Jacksonville Public Library Card.

Click:  http://infoweb.newsbank.com/signin/JacksonvillePublicLibrary/NEWSBANK

Enter your Library Card Number (printed below the bar code)

This gives you free and unlimited access to NewsBank:

NewsBank contains the electronic editions of record for valuable local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers--all in one easy-to-search database. (Contains the abstract and full-text version of thousands of articles from Florida's top daily newspapers, including - among others - the Tampa Tribune, the Florida Times-Union, the Miami Herald, the St. Petersburg Times, and the Orlando Sentinel.)

You can thank us later.

 
 
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>> 1 Comments
Austin Cassidy
April 14, 2007, 11:26 pm


Fantastic!  This has been bugging me for a few weeks.  Particularly the stupid lack of a flat-rate subscription option.  I would have been willing to pay a flat $5 or $10 a month for this service, but the $3 per article charge was just too much.

But free works out even better...  Grin
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