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It appears that Newpapers.com uses either a former or latter title to describe some of their newspaper collections rather than the actual title of the newspaper. For example I have an article from the 20 November 1886 edition of the Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette which Newspapers.com refers to as the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette was published between 1877 and 1901 and after a number of name changes became Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 1927. I have used a note at the the end of my citation using EE 14.22, bottom of page 80. Is there a better way of showing the diferences in titles? Source ListingPennsylvania, Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) Commerical Gazette 1877-2015. Citaion Listing"Sheriff's Sales," Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) Commerical Gazette, 20 November 1886, digital images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com : accessed 7 September 2016), sale of a number of plots in Pittsburgh to Charles Sanforth and Andrew Freeborough. Newspapers.com refers to the newspaper by its modern title of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. ThanksEric W Carlin
Eric, adding a note in the
Eric, adding a note in the manner of the "clarification of titles" for newsletters at 14.22 (p. 806) is one way of handling the problem.
The basic points are these: If you cite a newspaper article, you should cite that paper by the name that is on the masthead. If you access it through a website that identifies it as something else, then in the layer of the citation that identifies the website, you should note that the website identifies the paper in a different manner. That way, anyone who seeks the newspaper at any other locale can locate it by its correct name, while anyone who seeks the newspaper as part of the website's database will know what set of words to use in that database.
Thanks. I will continue with
Thanks. I will continue with the note as it is possible to give an explanation for the difference in titles.
Eric W Carlin