XooxleAnswers has an annotated directory (or link list) to free newspaper archives starting with a description of Google News Archives. This is an extensive list that covers the US, some international including Canada, college newspapers, and magazines. It received a strong recommendation from The Information Advisor's BestBizWeb's enewsletter.
XooxleAnswers (zooks-il answers) is the home website for David Sarokin, a researcher who offers for-fee services. He used to research for Google Answers, and also writes articles for eHow.com about research, computers, investing and much else.
He has created several useful guides to resources for legal and business, and links to articles he has written on a variety of topics.
For example, see David's article on Find Old Newspaper Articles and Archives Online for Free (Nov 2008)
In total, this is an excellent resource to help one go well beyond Google for specialty searches, and as a for-fee service to be helped on the really tough questions.
Posted by Gwen at December 30, 2008 02:25 PM