In 2020, the Atlas of Digitised Newspapers and Metadata was released. With database histories which used the series of blog posts first published here on the Oceanic Exchanges website as a starting point, the Atlas provides a deep contextualisation of ten collections of digitised newspapers:
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Digitized Newspapers from the National Digital Newspaper Program, USA
Chronicling America provides an aggregated, public portal to historical newspapers from the United States, collected under the National Digital Newspaper Program, a collaboration between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress. Newspapers have been digitized from the years 1789-1963, though the bulk of the collection comes...
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Trove, National Library of Australia
History of the Collection
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The Times Digital Archive (Gale)
The Times Digital Archive Collection History The Times Digital Archive was the first online digitized newspaper collection of British newspapers. This early adoption of digitization, building upon the ubiquity of Palmer’s index of the Times, ensured its prominence in historical and journalistic research, including its particular use by the House...
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Digital National Newspaper Library of Mexico, Hemeroteca Nacional Digital de México
Digital National Newspaper Library of Mexico Report also available in Español Collection History México’s National Digital Newspaper Library (HNDM, in Spanish) was created between 2004 and 2008. Like many libraries at that time, these new digital storage methods were used both to preserve the originals as well as to provide...
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