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index and made it available via CD-ROM. NewsBank joined forces with Micromedia, Ltd., a division of IHS Canada, to help distribute its products in 2001. In 2004 NewsBank maintained archival access to hundreds of media references since 1996. In 2005, NewsBank was structured in a pay-for-use format,
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5,000 per library. Visitors to libraries found that their search time was cut from 30 minutes using paper indexes to five minutes using CD-ROM. NewsBank used an arbitrary selection process for determining which news articles the company considered worthy for archiving; it based their selection on
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is a US-based commercial company founded in 1972 that operates a global news database resource providing online archives of media publications as reference materials to libraries. As of 2024 it includes current and archived information from thousands of newspapers, videos, broadcast transcripts,
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but also prior related publications from 1871 to 2000, and index the material so it could be keyword searchable on the Internet. Dan Jones, President and CEO of NewsBank, had a prior relationship with the university, serving as a university trustee and president-elect of the Northwestern Alumni
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The most comprehensive collection of full-text newspapers globally, Access Global NewsBank:... more than 7,000 global news sources covering over 200 countries and territories. These include over 600 from Australia, from community, regional and rural titles through to major national titles.
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In 1992, NewsBank had difficulty providing its users with a method to search for information based upon a specific location. Newspaper results were listed by subject matter first and then subsequently by location. At the time, it indexed articles via
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The founding president and CEO is Dan Jones. His son, Danny (1972–2024), was the consumer division's first president, and largely responsible for growing GenealogyBank, while his daughters have also worked for the organization.
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as bringing in annual revenue of approximately $ 19 million, and employing a staff of 350 people. By 1998, NewsBank provided indexes via CD-ROM to newspaper articles from over 450 cities in the United States.
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was then the "world's largest full-text news database". In 2014 NewsBank contained over 990 news sources, covering U.S. state as well as national publications, along with television and radio programs.
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It started compiling the full text of articles related to the local economy of geographic areas and providing this information via CD-ROM to its clients in 1994. The
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to archive all of its historical publications. The task archived more than 90,000 pages of material from the school. It included a plan to archive not just
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articles that were more likely to be widely appealing to a larger potential audience of future researchers, not simply stories of regional interest.
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from more than 400 media publications in the US. The company announced in 1993 a CD-ROM product indexing full text of 35 publications including
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In 1994, NewsBank was the only company providing researchers access to an index to periodical literature in the subject of
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As of 2024, NewsBank holds current and archived information from thousands of newspapers, along with
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In 2013, NewsBank provided users with its service Access World News, which according to
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The Education of a CD-ROM Publisher: An Insider's History of Electronic Publishing
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Library Services for Career Planning, Job Searching and Employment Opportunities
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Managing Performing Arts Collections in Academic and Public Libraries
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Leopold, Wendy (June 14, 2011). "130 years of Daily Northwestern".
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Fritze, Ronald H.; Brian E. Coutts; Louis Andrew Vyhnanek (2004).
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with access differentiated for different types of users including
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NewsBank's offerings include a "Black Life in America" archive.
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Riedling, Ann Marlow; Loretta Shake; Cynthia Houston (2013).
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Chris Andrews was brought on in 1986 as product manager for
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Communication and Language Analysis in the Public Sphere
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NewsBank, Inc.

John Naisbitt
Readex
Naples, Florida
newsbank.com
John Naisbitt
Readex
microform
New Canaan, Connecticut
CD-ROM
US$
microfiche
The Christian Science Monitor
The Washington Post
Los Angeles Times
The Dallas Morning News
Chicago Tribune
The Boston Globe
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
theater
privately held company
Foreign Broadcast Information Service
public libraries
public schools
higher education
The Daily Northwestern
Northwestern University
newswires
National Library of Australia

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