Online, Plain Text
Format:
Plain text, no graphics. Plain text is usually framed by an HTML interface.
Examples:
Aggregators include:
ProQuest (Alt-PressWatch, Ethnic NewsWatch, GenderWatch, Latin American Newsstream, US Northeast Newsstream)
World News Connection, 1994-2013
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1974-1996.
Content:
Mainline newspapers, specialized/ethnic newspapers, international newspapers, mostly back to 1980, some coverage back to 1960s. Partial content. Included content is fully indexed.
Pros:
The full text of the included content is searchable; wide range of content; good currency; networked; institutional subscriptions are relatively inexpensive for the content covered.
Cons:
Changing content; not an archival medium; loss of original formatting; loss of graphic, audio, and visual information; loss of content (no advertising included, Tasini exclusions, multiple daily editions).
Access rating:
Good. Networked.
Preservation rating:
Highly variable; archived content in some databases can be withdrawn by individual newspaper publishers at any time; access to archived content is guaranteed in other databases.
Notes:
Currently the dominant mode of access that the library provides users via paid subscriptions in terms of breadth and depth of content.