California Digital Newspaper Collection

On Monday, June 16, we will be moving the CDNC servers to a new rack in the data center. We expect that the CDNC will be unavailable all day.

We are currently upgrading the CDNC. The site should be back online soon.

Recent editorial in support of the CDNC:

Erasing history: California’s digital news archive is at risk of going dark | Opinion “The state is poised to effectively erase a vital part of our collective memory by allowing the California Digital Newspaper Collection to go dark.”

https://www.givecampus.com/schools/UniversityofCaliforniaRiverside/help-preserve-the-california-digital-newspaper-collection

Help Preserve the California Digital Newspaper Collection Help Preserve the California Digital Newspaper Collection

Hello everyone, we are still battling bot traffic that is crushing the CDNC. We have a solution being put into place over the weekend that we hope will resolve the problem. Fingers crossed.

The CDNC needs your help! We need to raise at least $300,000 by June 30 to make up for funding that was unexpectedly withheld. For background on our financial straits, see the article that our friends at J. published: https://jweekly.com/2025/04/23/our-digital-archive-could-disappear-because-of-state-budget-cuts/ The donation page for this campaign is available here: https://www.givecampus.com/campaigns/61710/donations/new?amt=200.00

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We've been battling bot traffic again today. Luis has implemented some strict rules to try to control it. If you get an error message "...can't reach this page", please wait 5 minutes and try refreshing. If you continue to have problems, please email us at [email protected].

The CDNC is experiencing unusually high traffic again--probably related to AI--that has crashed our servers again. We're working to get back online.

The CDNC is back online. Thanks for your patience while we updated some hardware.

We've replaced the broken drives in the CDNC but the site is still not responding. We asked the vendor to look into the problem and hope to have more details later today.

The CDNC has been experiencing especially high traffic over the last few days that has bogged down our server. We're investigating ways to manage the traffic. The site might not be responsive for a few days. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Heavy traffic from OpenAI has caused our servers to stop responding. We're working to block the offending requests and get the archive online again. Thanks for your patience.