The Oregon Digital Newspaper Program just added a boatload of new issues from the Sandy Post, completing a large digitization project (nearly 40,000 pages!) sponsored by an intrepid group of folks affiliated with the Sandy Historical Society and Friends of the Sandy Public Library in Sandy, Oregon. This project includes a short run of Sandy News (1915-1917) and a substantial portion of Sandy Post (1938-1982). Thirty-one reels of microfilm in a single project is usually more than we can handle in one go, but we’re glad to add Sandy to the Historic Oregon Newspapers map.

Access this new content directly here:

• Sandy News: https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/2024240280/
• Sandy Post: https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/2024240281/ 

Sharp-eyed readers may notice that the Sandy Post issues fall after the date of public domain, which currently applies to works published 1929 and before. Isn’t this newspaper protected by copyright? ODNP staff conducted copyright research on this title to determine that it had never been registered for copyright and issues published into the 1980s do not have a copyright notice printed on them (the © symbol). According to these criteria, ODNP can legally digitize and host the issues through March 1989 without obtaining permission from the publisher to do so. For content that is protected by copyright, ODNP will always seek permission from the rights holder and will never digitize and host content without obtaining prior permission.

Learn more about copyright, permissions, and reuse of content in Historic Oregon Newspapers.

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