Monday, December 18, 2006
Never on Sunday
I found out the hard way that the Times Digital Archive (Times of London, 1785-1985) does not include any Sunday issues. The main search screen does not mention this fact, and even includes Sunday dates in its dropdown menu. But there is no indexing or content available for those dates; users wanting articles from the Sunday Times before July 1985 will need to use microfilm at Widener. After July 1, 1985, all issues of the Times of London (including Sundays) are available in Lexis-Nexis under the memorable title "Times (London), The."
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Steve: Did you try Palmer's Index to the Times/the Official Index to the Times (which succeeds it)? Both are available via Chadwyck Healey's Historical Newspapers on the E-Resources page.
News from Laureen today that the resource description page has been updated to reflect the fact that the Sunday Times is not part of the database.
Thanks to Steve for the sleuthing -- and for saving patrons lots of confusion!
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