SABR Blues

[Guest Edgy DC]

From my latest SABR e-mail:

SABR members will lose remote access to ProQuest Historical Newspapers and Heritage Quest on December 31, 2006.

That's the best part of my membership, bar none.

[Guest Mr. Zero]

Why is that?

meaning the cancellation.

[seawolf17]

I'm guessing that's how Edgy posts stories from every newspaper you've never heard of across the country.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

sabr sez proquest wants to make itself more exclusive (& prolly more expensive) than they are currently. It will still be available to check at libraries & such. But overall, it blows goats.

SABR also seems to have lost its discount deal with paper of Record (Sporting News archives) which also is a shame, tho that's worth your $$ at 75 or whatever a year (was 50 I think).

PQ had the NYTimes, LA Times, W Post and Tribune archived, as well as a few others, and the formatting and searching worked well.

I've been doing an awful lot of researching and printing for future reference.

[Guest Edgy DC]

seawolf17 wrote: I'm guessing that's how Edgy posts stories from every newspaper you've never heard of across the country.

Not really. This is about archival searches. What was saiid about Mickey Lolich when he was introduced to the Mets media*. Stuff like that.

* "He takes a size 48 uniform shirt, that's even bigger than Rube Walker's," somebody whispered, referring to the paunchy pitching coach. "And he takes a size 40 pants." Also discussed was how Lolich took care of his arm --- treatments of scalding hot water.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Johnny Dickshot wrote: I've been doing an awful lot of researching and printing for future reference.

Should I be starting from a different direction and we can get as much as possible?

[Guest KC]

If anyone is interested in a home subscription to The New York Times, I
think that their digital archives are available as part of the subscription now.
I haven't looked into it too much because I've been using the SABR site still,
but I'll let youse now in the coming weeks.

[Guest KC]

I called for the halibut, it is included (which is a pretty good deal).

[Theoldmole]

I've already noticed, in my college library access to ProQuest, a lot of old NY Times stories are blocked.