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• Цифрова бiблiотека iсторико-культурноï спадщини = Digital library of historical and cultural heritage (V. I. Vernadskii National Library of Ukraine)
  Portal to 27 historical newspapers (in both Ukrainian and Russian), mostly from the late-19th century up to and including World War II.

• Eлектронна бiблiотека "Украïнiка" = Electronic library "Ukrainica" (V. I. Vernadskii National Library of Ukraine)
  Portal to 23 Ukrainian-language newspapers, mostly from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but also including links to both the .pdf archive (1992-4, 2010-16) and the e-archive (2002-present) of Кримська світлиця.

• Електронний архів Українського визвольного руху = Digital Archive of Ukrainian Liberation Movement (Center for Research on the Liberation Movement & Ivan Franko National University of Lviv)
  Includes selected issues (487 images) of newspapers (1917-1991), primarily in Ukrainian, some titles in Russian and Polish. Also includes a collection of samizdat and underground press (1000 images).

• Місцеві періодичні видання: Газети = Local Periodicals: Newspapers (V. H. Korolenko Kharkiv State Scientific Library)
  Portal to 6 titles (in Ukrainian and Russian) from the late 19th and 20th centuries. The longest runs are of Вісті ВУЦВК (1921-1940) and Харківський Університет (1990-2000). The same titles are also available here.

• LIBRARIA. Архів української періодики онлайн = LIBRARIA. Ukrainian Online Periodicals Archive (Archival Information Systems [AIS])
  Electronic archive of more than 400 Ukrainian periodicals (including newspapers), published in Ukrainian, Polish, German, Yiddish, Crimean Tatar, and Russian, from various regions of Ukraine, mainly in the 1920s and 1940s. Relevant thematic collections include:

  • Daily regional newspapers of XIX – early XX cc. [sic] (2 titles, 1899-1915)

  • Revolution era Ukrainian Press (2 titles, 1906-1919)

  • Soviet [Ukrainian] newspapers of 1920th [sic] (147 titles, 1917-1925)

  • Soviet Jewish Newspapers (29 titles, 1926-1940)

  • Interwar Jewish press of Galicia, Volhynia and Bukovina (27 titles, 1919-1939)

  • Interwar press of Bukovina (4 titles, 1903-1941)

  • Interwar press of Galicia and Volhynia (18 titles, 1917-1939)

  • Propaganda press on the occupied Ukrainian territories 1941–44 (269 titles)

  • Displaced Persons Camps and Ukrainian Emigration Periodicals (36 titles, 1943-1949)

• Svoboda (Ukrainian People's Union)
  The .pdf archive (1893-2015) of "the world's oldest," "continuosly published," American-based, Ukrainian-language newspaper (over 23,000 issues). Newer issues available in both .pdf and .html on the association's website.

• The Ukrainian Weekly (Ukrainian National Association, Inc.)
  The .pdf archive (1933-2014) of the official English-language publication of the UNA, a fraternal, non-profit association founded in 1933 to serve the Ukrainian American community. Newer issues available in .html on the association's website.

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Online catalogs & bibliographies

• State Bibliographic Index of Ukraine (Ivan Fedorov Book Chamber of Ukraine)
  Includes scanned (.pdf) versions of the "Newspaper Articles Chronicle" (Літопис газетних статей) from 2004-present.

• Випуск періодичних і продовжуваних видань (Ivan Fedorov Book Chamber of Ukraine)
  Includes scanned (.pdf) version of statistical bulletin on the number of “Periodicals and Continuing Publications” (including newspapers) published from 1991 to date for 2018, 2019, and 2020.

• Газеты в сети и вне её - Газетная библиография
  Includes : Catalogs, directories, indexes and lists of newspapers; Resources and tutorials useful when working with newspapers; Indexes of the content of periodicals; Books and other publications about newspapers; Personalities.