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The google news archive. Now includes non-current content. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/05/AR2006090501563.html Most of the time, users will need to pay to get access to full text for this content. So, link resolvers. Like with Google Scholar. Can we get link resolver integration into Google news? Several problems present themselves. One is that the databases we have most likely to include historical popular press stuff do not play so well with link resolvers, not generally doing article-level linking. This is a problem. But should not stop us from trying. It is arguably a service to let the users know they could have free access, even if they can't get there in one click. (Are the users willing to pay $5 to avoid our bad interfaces? Sadly, perhaps. Maybe this will let us put a market value on bad interfaces.) And once we get something going, we can try to make it work better, with vendor cooperation or not. Another problem is that Google may be unwilling to do this, becuase their publisher partners may be unhappy with Google directing people away from their revenue stream. Then I think, more as a thought experiment than as anything useful---would it be possible to use GreaseMonkey to add link resolver links to the google news archive page, even if google doesn't? I don't think this would result in a realistic production solution, but it's an interesting idea anyway. I'm not sure if it would really be possible though, it seems like there probably isn't sufficient metadata that can be scraped from the summary page. Jonathan