Index to the New York Times (1863-1906) [first installment] As the city of New York swelled to half a million people in the middle of the 19th century, more and more newspapers came forward. Begun in 1851, the New York Daily Times began as an "unusually well-edited paper crowded with foreign and local news." During this time,

"Paratext has leaped in to fill the need for online bibliographic access to these older collections and user reaction can be summed up in one word. Awesome!"   Anne Cerstvik Nolan   Brown University Libraries

"its news was well balanced, well edited and copious, with a special attention to foreign affairs. {It} was modeled on the London Times more than any existing paper."1

More than a million citations from the "Newspaper of Record" are now part of NCM/Poole's Plus. This vast index, now available in fully searchable form along with the index to the New York Daily Tribune, opens up vast areas of research for students from every discipline. Over 1.2 million citations.

Index to the New York Daily Tribune, (1875-1906)

Founded by Horace Greeley in 1841, the New York Tribune quickly established itself as the standard for journalism in mid-19th century America.

Under Greeley's editorial leadership, the Tribune sought the "ethical high ground" and many contemporary observers maintained that the strongly anti-slavery editorial policies of Greeley's Tribune were a singularly powerful force in slavery's eventual abolition.

"In intellectual plane was definitely higher than that of most of its competitors. [and] there is significance in the fact that an Index to the paper was issued from 1876-1906, the first of modern newspapers."1 Over 780,000 citations.

Palmer's Index to the Times (London) 1880-1890 [first installment]

Little explanation is needed to for the importance of the Times of London-- the most important newspaper in the United Kingdom when the United Kingdom was arguably the most powerful nation in the Western World. Every topic, in the UK and overseas, finds its way into the 385,000 citations in this first installment of the great index.

Index to the Oregon Spectator 1846-1854

This is an important contribution to NCM/Poole's Plus. The Oregon Spectator was the first newspaper published on the West Coast of the United States. The first issue was published February 5, 1846 in Oregon City, Oregon. The city, at that point, was part of the Oregon Provisional Government. When the paper's final issue came out in March of 1855, when Oregon was a U.S. Territory; 21,305 citations online.