Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections

Overview

The Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections provide access to digitized newspapers, with an emphasis on newspapers from the state of Illinois.

Access

Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections production site.

Contact

Submit general questions, training requests, or report system outages to: idnc@library.illinois.edu

Documentation

Coming soon.

Policies

Coming soon.

Publications and Presentations

Rimkus, Kyle R., Marek Sroka, William Schlaack, and Anna I. Oates. “Preservation and Access of Illinois Newspapers,” October 31, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/2142/98519 .

Rimkus, Kyle R., and Kirk Hess. “Providing Access to Digitized Newspapers: A Case Study from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library,” 2014. https://hdl.handle.net/2142/103613.

Rimkus, Kyle R., Marek Sroka, William Schlaack, and Anna I. Oates. “Preservation and Access of Illinois Newspapers,” October 31, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/2142/98519.

Source Code

The Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections website relies on the vendor Veridian for its presentation software. More information can be found on their website.