4 Introduction

This chapter outlines the major sources of newspaper data available in the UK for text mining and other purposes. I do aim on updating this chapter with information other national collections, though detailed, reliable information is difficult to gather and could easily take up a book on its own!

I highly recommend checking out the Atlas of Digitised Newspapers project, which currently has very detailed information on the digitised newspapers and data for ten collections worldwide, including descriptions of metadata, standards, and API access.