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- International newspapers offer new perspectives on national and global issues
- Exact digital replicas published in English and a variety of other languages
- Expertly selected publications from Africa, Europe, Latin America, and South Asia
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"Readex, a division of NewsBank, has long been a provider known for its high quality digital collections of early books, documents, and newspapers, particularly America’s Historical Newspapers database of American newspapers from colonial times and the days of the early republic. With the World Newspaper Archive Collection, Readex has partnered with the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) to provide access to historical newspapers from other regions, giving historians, language specialists, political scientists, and other researchers the opportunity to explore these ephemeral primary texts. To date Readex offers nineteenth- and early twentieth-century newspaper collections from Africa...South Asia, and an impressive collection from Latin America."
-- David D. Oberhelman, Professor, Humanities-Social Sciences Division, Edmon Low Library, Oklahoma State University in Reference Reviews (2013, Volume 27, Number 1)
“In the detailed account of the outbreak of plague in Santos, or the larger story of the changing epidemiological environment and its consequences in Brazil, there are new digital history tools at our disposal, including Latin American Newspapers, 1805-1922. In the last decade historians have witnessed a revolution in digitizing and OCR technology. This has allowed millions of pages of old newspapers to be digitized, converted to machine readable text, placed within database programs and made accessible on the Internet. As a result, the proverbial needle in the haystack can be now found by typing ‘needle’ into a search bar.”
— Ian Olivo Read, author of The Hierarchies of Slavery in Santos, Brazil, 1822-1889 (Stanford University Press, 2012)
“Latin American Newspapers, 1805-1922 and the U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1994 are two databases of great importance for Latin American studies. Together they provide more than 30 newspapers and 400,000 government documents that provide Latin American researchers with access to critical historical information without requiring travel to the United States or neighboring countries. These high-quality Readex collections offer new opportunities to explore, understand and reveal our own history; both are of huge value to historical researchers in many different fields of the humanities and social sciences.”
— Prof. Kátia Couto, Department of History, Universidade Federal do Amazonas-UFAM
"I am astonished at the quantity of available material in the Readex digital collections. I am studying South African leader Sol Plaatje's involvement as a politician and journalist in pre-apartheid resistance movements. The Readex African Newspapers collection, which includes the newspapers he edited, has been critical to my research."
— Raquel G. A. Gomes, Doctoral Candidate, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
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Advisory Board
Adán Benavides
Librarian for Research Programs
Benson Latin American Collection
The University of Texas at Austin
Frank Conaway
Social Science Bibliographer
University of Chicago Library
Chuck Eckman
Associate University Librarian & Director of Collections
The University of California, Berkeley Library
Sharon Farb
Associate University Librarian
University of California, Los Angeles
Dan Hazen
Associate Librarian of Harvard College for Collection Development
Harvard University
Denise Hibay
Interim Director for Collections Strategy
New York Public Library
John E. Ingram
Senior Associate Dean of University Libraries
University of Florida
Glenda J Pearson
Head, Microforms and Newspapers Collection
University of Washington
Mary Stuart
Professor, History, Philosophy and Newspaper Library
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
