Global Press Archive

The Global Press Archive is an initiative by East View Information Services in partnership with Stanford University Libraries and the Hoover Institution Library & Archives to digitize over 2,000 predominantly foreign-language newspaper titles ranging in coverage from the late 19th Century to present times. 

Launched in 2016, the Global Press Archive features stand-alone titles and databases aggregating multiple titles from specific regions and time periods, and includes over 1,500 newspapers, 450,000 issues, and 4.7 million pages of content, with 17 countries and 12 languages represented. Most Global Press Alliance titles have been released on East View’s customized platform, with new releases continually being added to the program. Newspaper titles and aggregated archives are available for purchase through East View. 

In 2018, the Center for Research Libraries and East View entered into a partnership — the Global Press Archive Charter Alliance — to develop a special series of thematically designed collections to meet the priorities of CRL members, resulting in the creation of nine collections — totaling 4.5 million pages — over a period of three years. Thus far, the Alliance has published four open-access collections, including: 

• Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese Newspapers 
• Middle Eastern and North African Newspapers 
• Independent and Revolutionary Mexican Newspapers 
• Imperial Russian Newspapers 

Also forthcoming via the Charter Alliance are collections from Southeast Asia, Latin America, and East Africa.