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ODNP year in review (2 million pages online!)

Post written by Allia Service, UO class of 2022. This year the Oregon Digital Newspaper Project (ODNP) website surpassed 2 million pages online! In total, we uploaded 704,088 pages. That includes 112,752 pages uploaded by our in-house digitization and digital

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ODNP Yearly Recap!

This year the Oregon Digital Newspaper Program (ODNP) uploaded 80,013 pages of Oregon newspapers to the website! These 80,000 pages came from currently-publishing and historic newspapers all around Oregon. Some of the new historic newspapers include:  Forest Grove Independent  Washington

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Around the O article highlights new, diverse papers coming to Historic Oregon Newspapers website

An article highlighting ODNP work was recently published in AroundtheO. Thank you to Jason Stone in University Communications for the article titled: New collection helps preserve the legacy of a civil rights trailblazer. This article discusses the six new titles

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1 million pages online!

Happy New Year from the Oregon Digital Newspaper Program! As of today, January 11, 2019, the ODNP website has surpassed 1 million pages online! Only a handful of statewide newspaper digitization and preservation programs have over 1 million pages and

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Celebrating Women’s History Month

This month, for Women’s History Month, we would like to highlight some of the history that can be found in the newspapers available on the Historic Oregon Newspapers website. There is plenty of news to be found, both related to

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Black History Month: African American Newspapers in the Oregon Digital Newspaper Program

In honor of Black History Month, the Oregon Digital Newspaper Program would like to highlight some of the African American newspapers available in our digital collections! These newspapers range from historic titles such as The New Age (1896-1905), to contemporary

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2017: Year in Review

We had a lot of changes in 2017!   The Historic Oregon Newspapers website underwent a system migration and design update. New features include an “On This Day in History” homepage showcase, an updated map and locations list, a calendar that allows users to browse by date, and an improved

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Forthcoming book about Coquille features ODNP newspapers!

Bert Dunn, an avid Oregon Digital Newspaper Program supporter and contributor, will soon publish a book on Coquille, Oregon that uses ODNP newspapers for source material. It will be published by Arcadia Publishing as part of their “Images of America”

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A Cure-All?

If you think direct-to-consumer prescription medication advertising is bad today, take a look at the historic newspapers we have digitized on the Oregon Historic Newspapers website! Likely, if you have taken the time to peruse just a few issues, you

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Oregon Digital Newspaper Program Update

This fiscal year we added 87,606 pages of historic and currently published newspapers to the ODNP site! We made improvements to the system and workflow for handling currently published e-editions of newspapers, and we are looking forward to adding more

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