Resources A-Z
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Japan Times Digital Archive
The Japan Times Digital Archive offered by East View Information Services covers the complete run (1897-2020) of this English-language daily published in Tokyo. East View's offer for this product provides access to the publisher's archive as a one-time purchase, with perpetual access rights and annual subscription for ongoing content additions (the archive will incorporate the the most recent year's content on an annual basis).
Oxford Scholarly Editions Online
Oxford University Press has created digital versions of its series of authoritative scholarly editions in literature, history, religion, and philosophy, rendered from print versions published from 1888 through 2012. The nine chronological/thematic modules released so far present drama, prose, and verse from the early 17th century through the Restoration period (late 1500s through 1700).
Ogonek (Огонек)
The digital archive of Ogonek (Огонек) contains 4,481 full-text issues of the Russian illustrated magazine. The collection covers issues dating from 1923 to 2017. The archive is full-image with fully searchable text.
East View reports that the archive will grow with ongoing subscription, hosted on East View's Universal Database platform.
Moscow News
The Moscow News digitial archive is a collection of 4,411 full-text issues of the Russian, English-language newspaper. The collection covers issues dating from 1930 to 2014. The archive is full-image with fully searchable text.
This is a static archive, hosted on East View's Universal Database platform.
The Japan News
The Japan News provides access to the English-language daily from the publisher The Yomiuri Shimbun. Hosted on the Global Press Archive platform, this newspaper archive includes over 27,251 issues covering the period of 1955-present.
Izvestiia Digital Archive
Izvestiia (Известия) Digital Archive covers the "complete archive" of Izvestiia (Известия), from its founding in 1917 through present. The database presents "the Kremlin’s newspaper of record" as full-image text searchable files. As of October 2019, the archive holds 30,101 full text, full image issues.
East View reports that the archive grows with ongoing subscription, hosted on East View's Universal Database platform.
The Current Digest of the Russian Press
Digital archive of the Current Digest of the Russian Press, an aggregated collection of Russian newspapers translated into English. Founded in 1949, the journal was first published as The Current Digest of the Soviet Press (1949-1991), followed by The Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press (1992-2010), and now The Current Digest of the Russian Press. The digital archive from East View contains 3,547 issues dating from 1949 to the present.
East View reports that the archive grows with ongoing subscription, hosted on East View's Universal Database platform.
The Current Digest of the Chinese Press
Like its older sibling, Current Digest of the Russian Press, this weekly serial publication launched early in 2012 (after a pilot issue in August 2011) provides English translations of timely articles selected from domestic Chinese news publications. The digital archive from East View contains 373 issues dating from 2011 to the present.
East View reports that the archive will grow with ongoing subscription and is hosted on East View's Universal Database platform.
Global Press Archive
The Global Press Archive (GPA) 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. The GPA reportedly will digitally preserve and make searchable "more than 30 million pages of newspaper content" over several years.
GPA includes stand-alone titles and databases aggregating multiple titles from a specific region and time period. As of October 2019, GPA includes 20+ newspaper titles and aggregated archives available for purchase through East View.
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Pravda (Правда)
East View Information Services has collected and digitized the archives of this historic Soviet and Russian newspaper title, starting with its first issue from April 22, 1912 and continuing through present day. The archive was released to the public in early 2010. As of October 2019, there are 29,660 full-text issues of the Russian newspaper.
World News Connection
The World News Connection (WNC) contains English-language transcriptions of news articles from selected non-U.S. sources, generated by the U.S. Open Source Center. WNC began distribution in 1995 as a successor product to the Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports. The service was discontinued on December 31, 2013.
The WNC offered by East View Information Services offers access to 856,013 items dating from 1995 to 2013. The archive is full-image with fully searchable text.
Argumenty i Fakty (Аргументы и факты)
Argumenty i Fakty (Аргументы и факты) provides access to 1,874 issues of full-text newspapers published during the Gorbachev era. The dates covered in this collection are: 1983-present. The archive is full-image and searchable text.
East View reports that the archive grows with ongoing subscription, hosted on East View's Universal Database platform.
Gudok (Гудок)
The Gudok (Гудок) archive provides access to 26,447 digital issues of the Russian trade newspaper. This collection covers issues dating from 1918 to the present. The archive is full-image and searchable text.
East View reports that the archive grows with ongoing subscription, hosted on East View's Universal Database platform.
Kavkaz (Кавказ)
The Kavkaz (Кавказ) digital archive contains 15,465 full text and full image issues of the historic Russian-language newspaper. The collection covers issues from 1846 to 1918. The archive is full-image and searchable text.
This is static archive, hosted on East View's Universal Database platform.
Literaturnaia Gazeta (Литературная газета)
The Literaturnaia Gazeta (Литературная газета) digital archive contains 6,470 issues of this cultural and political newspaper from Russia. The collection covers issues dating from 1929 to the present. The archive is full-image and searchable text.
East View reports that the archive will grow with ongoing subscription, hosted on East View's Universal Database platform.
Novoe Russkoe Slovo (Новое русское слово)
Digital archive of Novoe Russkoe Slovo (Новое русское слово) containing 14,106 full-text issues of the Russian language newspaper, published in New York. The collection covers issues dating from 1918 to 2010. The archive is full-image with fully searchable text.
This is a static archive, hosted on East View's Universal Database platform.
Sovetskaia Kul’tura (Советская культура)
Digital archive of Sovetskaia Kul’tura (Советская культура) containing 5,229 full-text issues of the paper that covers cultural events and developments within Russia. The collection covers issues dating from 1929 to the present. The archive is full-image with fully searchable text.
East View reports that the archive will grow with ongoing subscription, hosted on East View's Universal Database platform.
Za Vozvrashchenie na Rodinu (За возвращение на Родину)
Digital archive of Za Vozvrashchenie na Rodinu (За возвращение на Родину) containing 401 issues of the Russian language newspaper published in Germany. The collection covers issues dating from 1955 to 1960. The archive is full-image with fully searchable text.
This is a static archive, hosted on East View's Universal Database platform.
Jiefangjun Bao (PLA Daily) (解放军报)
Digital archive of Jiefangjun Bao (解放军报), the official newspaper of the military of the People's Republic of China. The archive contains 22,443 full-text issues, dating from 1956 to the present. The archive is fully searchable by text.
East View reports that the archive will grow with ongoing subscription and is hosted on East View's Universal Database platform.
Donetsk and Luhansk Newspaper Collection
Digital archive of newspapers aggregated from two self-proclaimed independent states, Donetsk People's Republic and Lugansk People's Republic. The archive contains 848 issues dating from 2013 to 2015. The archive is full-image with searchable text.
This is a static archive, hosted on East View's Universal Database platform.
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