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"The Times Digital Archive comprises searchable images of every page of every issue of The Times ( London) from 1785 to 1985, making it a terrific source of information about 19- and 20th-century history."

– Lawbook Co., 2007

"The full research potential of The Times is being unlocked, or perhaps unleashed...Gale is scanning all the issues published between 1785 and 1985 — nearly a million pages and some ten million articles — to create The Times Digital Archive. To that is added technology that can read the original and sometimes erratic typesetting and locate words or phrases across the centuries."

– The Times, May 2003

"Hot off the online presses. The back files of The Times of London have been digitized and made searchable via the familiar Info-Trac interface. Times Digital Archives takes full-text online newspapers to the next step, with page images of the entire newspaper, articles, advertisements, book reviews, and more."

– Library Journal, April 2003

"We called this 'a dream of a database,' a full-text archive providing access not only to articles from the Times but also to advertising and classified ads, editorials, birth and death notices, book reviews, crossword puzzles, letters to the editor, and the Court Page, which details the activities of the royals."

– Booklist, January 2003

"Over the next 18 to 20 months, Gale is posting a dream of a database, the London Times from 1785 to 1985. This is the full-text archive, including not only newspaper articles but also advertising and classified ads, editorials, birth and death notices, book reviews, crossword puzzles, letters to the editor, and the Court Page, which details the activities of the royals...This is a sophisticated database, requiring some patience and skill to use. The finished archive will have enormous potential as a research tool and suit the needs of large public and academic libraries as well as historians, journalists and educators. The major drawback is slow loading, but this can be forgiven when the user is rewarded by such valuable content."

– Booklist, September, 2002

"The ( London) Times Digital Archives, 1785-1985, is hot off the online presses. The back files of The Times, a huge microfilm collection from Gale's Primary Source Microfilm, have been digitized and made searchable via the familiar InfoTrac interface...A fascinating and valuable primary source tool for history, social science research, arts, and humanities courses. I'm eagerly looking forward to seeing (and using) the complete archives in 2003. Recommended for school, public, academic, and special libraries both for its content and the intuitive InfoTrac interface."

– Library Journal, September 2002