Readex is a subsidiary of NewsBank Inc., a privately held company based in Naples, Florida (USA). Established in 1950 as the Readex Microprint Corporation and acquired by NewsBank, Inc. in 1984, Readex is a major aggregator of newspaper and other content in digital, microform and print formats. Through partnerships with publishers, governments and other entities mostly in the English-speaking world, Readex has aggregated tens of millions of news articles and government publications from thousands of sources dating from the seventeenth century to the present day.
Its major focus is the production of news collections in searchable online databases, through web-enabled proprietary interfaces. Its text processing, indexing and metadata operations allow it to sell a wide variety of packaged and topical information tailored to specific markets. Its library databases are customized outside the United States for the U.K and Ireland, Australia, and Asia, and it has created databases of Spanish-language publications.
Readex has microform operations in Chester, VT, under its Readex unit (established in 1950), offering filming services to newspapers as well as retrospective microfilming of rare and historical American newspaper collections for its Archive of Americana and America’s Newspapers aggregations. Readex also works with the Center for Research Libraries to produce the World Newspaper Archive database, consiting of modules of digitized newspapers from Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and other world regions.