Does anyone know of a site where we can get free access to The Times/Gale online archive please? Someone put a link up recently, but it now doesn't work...
Yes I have Elaine, although it won't accept my library card number online and there's no note of an alternative password. Perhaps access can only be gained in the library
PS - Just been looking at it and it says 'British Library News Demo' so not full access anyway.
I've just e-mailed them to ask if there's any way that individuals who aren't affiliated to a university and can't get access through a library can access the database.
Phone your library tomorrow and find out what virtual info it has.
Cheshire has the times but not the 19th C.
If it's to be, it's up to me.
Searching for:
English: Brewerton, Wilkes, Edwards, Broughton, Piercy, Brundred, Homer, Parry, Wynn, Nock, Noden, Standley and Taylor.
Scottish: McDougall,Gemmell, Hunter, Stewart, Campbell, Downs, Galt, Frew, Hill, Hand, Main, Thomson, McLarty and Murdock.
I did not realise that Herts Libraries have access to the Times as last time I asked at my local library they said they did not have access via my computer but only through their computers, but I will now enquire again, in light of what you have just said. I do belong to Beds Virtual Library but they recently had to give up access to the Times via your own home computer, due to some dispute with Gail over the free access.
Click on "Online Reference Library" then "Newspapers and Magazines" then it tells you how to put your password together from your library card number, then select Newspapers, and a box will come up for you to enter your password and you are away. The initial search it takes you to will be for the more recent newspapers so you then have to click on "Change Databases" in the top right-hand corner and you can then choose the Times Digital Archive.
KiteRunner
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Thanks for that. I have just successfully got on using my library ticket and following your excellent directions I got to the older Times newspapers. I have made a note so I can get on there in future. It is at least two years since I asked about TimesOnline so...Doesn't time fly!! Must tell my FH group about this!
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