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Overview
Retrospective issues of The Christian Science Monitor are available through the ProQuest Historical Newspapers database platform, dating from the Monitor’s inception in 1908 through 1996.
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Retrospective issues of The Christian Science Monitor are available through the ProQuest Historical Newspapers database platform, dating from the Monitor’s inception in 1908 through 1996. This platform offers converted holdings for various U.S. regional titles, ethnic groupings including Black Newspapers and American Jewish Newspapers, and several international titles including The Times of India.
From its start, the paper aimed to provide a balanced view of national and international affairs, with religious perspective confined to one dedicated essay in each issue. The paper discontinued its print edition in October 2008 to concentrate on online content.
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The article titles and first eight lines of each article are hand-edited; the eight lines are considered an “abstract” that can be searched separately.
Technical platform & interface
ProQuest’s new platform offers several features conducive to researching newspaper content. All articles are zoned, and the default view presents each separate article. A “page view clickable” view allows the reader to navigate to other adjacent articles on the page. Various types of articles have been tagged, including multiple types of advertisements. The new faceted options for massaging results include a concise but informative summary of publication title history. A powerful “word-occurrence graph” can be adjusted to show frequency of search terms over varying periods of time, presenting the user with an out-of-the-box text-mining tool.
Cross-collection searching is possible with other titles available through the ProQuest Historical Newspapers platform.
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Center for Research Libraries
- Virginia Kerr - Digital Program Manager
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