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(University of Pensylvania's Digital Library)
Examples:
- Entering austen, jane in the Author field
finds
books by Jane Austen. - Entering Baum in the Author field and
and oz
in the Title field finds L. Frank Baum's Oz books. - Entering dosto
in the Author field,
choosing the Exact start of name option, and entering
underground in the Title field finds Fyodor Dostoevsky's
Notes from the Underground, even if you don't remember
how to spell more than the start of the author's name!
[gateway access to LC's catalog] (and those at many other institutions)
(http://www.thepaperboy.com/ ~ "5013 Newspapers From 175 Countries")
Of course being able to read any newspapers of the world does not mean much if you don't know how to filter out the very rare snippets of information and and to recognize the few [valuable sources of information] that are not simple progandistic megaphones of their owners' interests. This said it is for sure quite instructive to learn that slightly different soups of commercial advertisement, hysterical nationalism & ridicolous propaganda are served - under all latitudes - to the zombies...
(http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/Archive/ ~ "Guardian and Observer articles since September 1, 1998")
A legitimate question: do we have any newspaper that offers ALL the archived article for free? Most newspapers offer only a selection (a couple of weeks) and demand money (or hacking, or guessing :-) in order to access their archives.
There are exceptions, though (moreover I reckon there will soon be many more accessible archives): an interesting one being the archive of ALL Guardian and Observer articles which appeared on the network from September 1, 1998. Admittedly the Guardian & Observer are not the best newspapers around, but if you are able to read [through the lines] of the propaganda you can paint your picture nevertheless...
This is the structure of a querystring @ the Guardian's archive:
http://www.searchunlimited.co.uk/search97cgi/s97networkr_cgi?
QueryText=%28%22How+to+search%22%29AND+%28VdkPublicationDate+%3E%3D+01%2DSep%2D1998%29
&ResultColSize=2000&ResultTemplate=ArchiveFull%2Ehts
&Collection=archive&SortSpec=score+Desc&ResultStart=1&ResultCount=10&ResultMaxDocs=1000&Dtv=0
Which seems pretty straightforward.
(http://www.netcraft.com/ ~ Explore 15,049,382 web sites)
VERY useful: you find a lot of sites based on their own name and then, as an added commodity, you also discover immediately what are they running on... verbum sapienti sat est eheh, I mean... A buon conoscitor, poche parole, I mean... a word to the wise is enough...
