Global Press Archive and the Center for Research Libraries: Advancing digital humanities with broad access to millions of pages of global newspapers

For over 30 years, East View has been unlocking international news content and making it accessible to scholars across the globe. East View’s Global Press Archive® (GPA) initiative continues this legacy by offering deep archives of a diverse range of predominantly non-Western newspaper titles, digitized to exacting standards and made searchable for increased discoverability. Many of these publications are being made available as comprehensive archives for the first time and the effort will collectively present immense new value for scholarly research.

From 2019-2023, East View partnered with the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) to accelerate the GPA mission. This partnership is known as the GPA CRL Alliance. Through the Alliance, CRL defined and sponsored the creation of thematic and single-title collections on the GPA platform. The Alliance was structured as a multi-year, planned activity in which CRL conferred with its member institutions to define priorities and title lists. CRL also provided financial underwriting to make it possible to convert these large collections (typically more than 500,000 pages each).

Thanks to generous support from funding members, the GPA CRL Alliance successfully released multiple collections, totaling over 6.2 million pages and including over 3.5 million pages of Open Access content.

If you enjoyed the benefits of the CRL Alliance, be sure to check out the Area Studies Initiative, the Global Press Archive program’s newest collaborative engagement with academic libraries to support the production of a diverse range of global newspaper archives. Learn more

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CRL Alliance Collections

CRL Alliance collections are truly global in scope, with content from Central America, East Asia, Eastern Europe and Eurasia, the Middle East and North Africa, East Africa, Latin America, and South and Southeast Asia. Languages represented within these collections are just as diverse, and include Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Javanese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and Vietnamese.

All Alliance collections are available to all CRL members, and some Alliance collections, comprised primarily of public domain content, are presented in full Open Access.

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CRL Alliance Member Benefits

The GPA CRL Alliance served as a unique opportunity to play a leading role in supporting equal access to critical resources for scholars across the globe. In addition, CRL Alliance participants enjoyed a number of benefits, including:

  • Discounts on commercial GPA products not included in the GPA CRL Alliance. All told, the CRL Alliance provided members an average savings of 38% – nearly $1 million in savings overall.
  • Discounts on custom digitization projects
  • Access to millions of pages of deposit copies for TDM and other research initiatives

CRL Alliance Collections

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