The University of Florida Libraries joined the project in 1993 and elected to identify primarily Florida-based titles. The emphasis of the project is upon 19th and 20th century newspapers, with particular emphasis upon ethnic and African-American titles. These had small press runs and dismal survival rates. As staff collected survey information, some of it went directly into cataloging records for the national OCLC database. Now supplementary information from the in-house database is available on the Internet.
Searchers can look by newspaper titles, city or county of publication, and often by ranges of years.
Holdings are either at UF, at cooperating libraries, or out of state. The microfilms are housed in the micro-text room on the first floor of Library West.