Proquest Offers Access to old U.S. Communist newspapers

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via Harvey Klehr and Dimitri Cavalli

Subject: Proquest Offers Access to old U.S. Communist newspapers
 
 
Dear Friends and Colleagues:
 
         Proquest, the electronic database company available at many university libraries and the New York Public Library, is now offering full-text access to old U.S. Communist newspapers, including the Daily Worker from 1924 onward (including its successor periodicals).

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Do you know where on Proquest? I have been searching for a while and cannot find where on their database the newspapers are located. I can find the American Communist Party papers, but not CPUSA.

The Library of Congress has the Proquest database, but when I looked on Saturday, I could not find anything there. I wonder if there is a release date some time in the future, or if they are asking libraries to pay more to expand the database.

The Proquest website [http://www.proquest.com/products-services/pq-hist-news.html] lists this collection, but there is no link from the listing to anything more, which suggests to me that they may not have it up yet. My university subscribes to Proquest's historical newspapers, but I cannot find any CP paper.

The Princeton University library has a description of the collection: http://library.princeton.edu/resource/28308 However, one needs a Princeton id and password to get beyond this page.

Given the list of papers on the PU website, I'm disappointed that the collection does not include The Western Worker/People's Daily World for the 1930s and 1940s.

Do any of you have access to the Princeton library to see if these are actually available?

Robert Cherny
San Francisco State emeritus

FYI:

I contacted Princeton University about their ProQuest database http://library.princeton.edu/resource/28308 and they sent me the following message:

"The database is working. However, access is restricted to PU student/faculty and patrons who had bought access to the library on the library computers."