I like what Andy is doing, As a librarian, however, an alternative would be to only cite the newspaper without the URL as this analog citation would be valid, meaning just cite the newspaper article.

Regards,

Wynand van der Walt
Head Librarian: Technical Services
Rhodes University Library



On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 7:28 PM Andy Mabbett <andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
On Mon, 11 Nov 2019 at 16:44, PWN <pariswritersnews@gmail.com> wrote:

> I’m constantly encountering newspaper articles that have disappeared from Google and
> are no longer viewable or even discoverable via Google.
> They are often the sole reference url for statements, yet are behind a paywall - notably
> newspapers.com.
> How is the community handling the paywalling of historical newspaper resources?

Whenever I cite something on Wikidata, or Wikipedia, I submit a copy
to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine using the add-on for
Firefox:

   https://github.com/jonathanmccann/archive-url-firefox-addon

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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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