Your quick guide to online content for post-gazette.com

Here's a quick guide to the content you can, and cannot, find on post-gazette.com:

What articles can I find online with post-gazette.com?
A: post-gazette.com currently contains a majority of the articles, columns and editorials in the daily and Sunday print editions of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that are written by the Post-Gazette staff, including our Harrisburg and Washington DC bureaus and most of the work we publish by freelance authors.

That lineup includes selected articles from our North and South weekday special editions and selected articles from our Sunday Washington section. We do not currently routinely republish coverage from our East and West weekday special editions online.

In addition, there are a variety of special reports and articles published exclusively online for post-gazette.com. Those include sports commentary by Chuck Finder and Shelly Anderson as well as question-and-answer features by Dejan Kovacevic, Paul Meyer, Shelly Anderson and Ray Fittipaldo.

We sometimes supplement that online coverage with selected wire service articles, when those articles are contractually available to us for online use. Currently, our supplemental services include the Associated Press and selected reports from the Washington Post/Los Angeles Times wire services.

Our online archive searches content on the website dating back to 1998.

What articles from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette will I not find online with post-gazette.com?
Because of restrictions in the licensing agreements mentioned in the preceding section, many wire service news articles, opinion columns, and syndicated features appearing in print editions of the Post-Gazette are not available at post-gazette.com.

At the present time, wire service stories by Knight-Ridder newspapers, the New York Times, Bloomberg News and Parade Magazine are not carried online.

Where can I find Post-Gazette articles that were not included in post-gazette.com?
A: You can search the articles published on post-gazette.com as far back as 1998 at the following search site:

http://search.post-gazette.com

For those and all other articles appearing in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette print editions back to 1993 you can elect to use our electronic archive service. That archive service will run a search at no cost, but there is a fee for viewing the complete articles found in any search. Click here for more information on that archive service.

http://search.post-gazette.com/NL/

For access to Pittsburgh Post-Gazette articles dating prior to 1993 you can access microfilm copies of the newspaper editions at the main Carnegie Library branch in Oakland. For specific research projects you can contact the staff of the newspaper's information center via e-mail a request to library@post-gazette.com.

Where can I search past reports by the Associated Press on state, national and international news?
A: Our Associated Press service online includes a search page where you can search for reports by the wire service back to 1997. Searching is free with a fee for retrieval. Click here to see that search page.

AP Search

Where can I find past reports by the New York Times, Knight-Ridder, Bloomberg or Parade Magazine?
A: Those news organizations maintain their own presence online:

Click here to visit the New York Times online. (registration is required).
Click here to visit Knight Ridder's online index to newspapers in its Real Cities Network
Click here to visit Bloomberg's online site.
Click here to visit Parade Magazine's online site.

Where can I find photos, graphics and illustrations used by post-gazette.com?
A: Photographs used online by post-gazette.com are largely drawn from the pages of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette or the Associated Press. Our search engine currently does not provide a means of searching individual photos, graphics or illustrations, although they are generally included in the related article as it is published online.

Click here if you would like to obtain a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette photograph.

Click here if you would like to obtain a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette illustration or graphic.

Click here if you would like a contact for permission to re-use or re-publish any Post-Gazette content.

Are the real estate transfers or deed transfers in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette print editions available online at post-gazette.com?
The real estate transfer listings, sometime called deed transfer listings, found in the print editions of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette are not currently licensed for republication online at post-gazette.com.

The Post-Gazette publishes real estate transfers for Allegheny, Beaver, Butler, Washington and Westmoreland counties in Sunday's Real Estate section. Deed transfers run as space is available.

Back copies of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette are available in limited quantities and you can contact our Back Copies department to order them.