NewspaperArchive was launched in 1999 by its parent company, Heritage Microfilm, Inc. of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. World Archives Holding LLC currently oversees it. On July 23, 2025, Newspaper Archive, Inc. held an A rating from the Better Business Bureau.

As of June 2008, NewspaperArchive said it provided full text search for 909 million articles on 85 million pages over 240 years that represented 2,875 publication titles in more than 748 cities. Searches can be conducted by keyword, date, and location. Results are free, but access to the newspaper articles available to download in PDF format requires a subscription. Searching is available directly from newspaperarchive.com or via news.google.com/archivesearch.

As of 2025, the product includes newspapers from Azerbaijan, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Jamaica, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, South Africa, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, the United Kingdom, the United States, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Uzbekistan. According to NewspaperARCHIVE.com, it is microfilming 2.5 million pages of newspapers each month and has 180,000 reels of microfilm. NewspaperArchive also claims as of 30 June 2025 that it has online newspapers dating from 1607 worldwide and its index includes content from 16,524 publications and over 3,525 cities from all over the world—big cities, small towns, and everything in between.

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