The Nebraska Newspaper Project (NNP) is a cooperative project of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln  (UNL) Libraries and the Nebraska State Historical Society (NSHS).  Originally funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) from 1992-2000, it is an affiliate of the U.S. Newspaper Program (USNP), which is managed by the Library of Congress.  The U.S. Newspaper Program is committed to locating, cataloging, union listing, and preserving every newspaper every published in the U.S., including U.S. protectorates and newspapers published prior to independence.  The goal of the Nebraska project is to find, catalog, and preserve every newspaper ever published in Nebraska from territorial times to the present.

Beginning in 2007, the UNL Libraries, the UNL Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, the Nebraska State Historical Society, and the UNL College of Journalism & Mass Communication are working with NEH and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).  Through the NDNP, the Nebraska Digital Newspaper Program is digitizing historically significant Nebraska newspapers for inclusion in Chronicling America, a national database of newspapers.   Through private and state funding, the Nebraska project will be expanded to include newspapers outside the scope of the national project.  By the end of 2009, full text newspapers will be available on this site.