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Author: mindfoggs2
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The actual Projo site owned/run by Belo Corp., the parent company of the Providence
Journal, runs the current issues of the newspaper and archives back only a limited
time...30 days, I believe.
Given the time span you mention, what you are probably thinking of is the ProQuest site
which is totally different in ownership & scope from the newspaper's own home
site.
The "PRO" part of both names no doubt causes confusion however it's only a
coincidence.
Before ProQuest decided to raise their prices & decrease content, it carried archived
issues of the Providence Journal from Dec 1983 up to current issues that were available to
patrons of RI libriaries - accessible with the bar code on the backs of the library cards.
As previously posted, a reduction in funding for RI Libraries coupled with ProQuest's
ill timed combination price increase with a decrease in content lead directly to the RI
Library Consortium not renewing the ProQuest service for this year.
I don't know if individuals can subscribe to ProQuest. Looking at their site, it
seems that the ProQuest service is geared to libraries/institutions "ProQuest's
family of brands provides electronic and microform information products and services to
academic, school, public, corporate, and government libraries around the world."
I couldn't find anything about subscriptions for individuals.
http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/default.shtml
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