News database resource
NewsBank Inc.
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Formation
| 1972
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Founder
| John Naisbitt
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Merger of
| Readex
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Type
| Corporation
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Legal status
| Active
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Headquarters
| Naples, Florida
, United States
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Region
| United States
Canada
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Services
| News database and educational archive resource
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Official language
| English
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President and CEO
| Dan Jones
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Website
| newsbank
.com
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NewsBank Inc.
is a US-based commercial company founded in 1972 that operates a news database resource providing online archives of media publications as reference materials to libraries. As of 2024
[update]
it includes current and archived information from thousands of newspapers, videos, broadcast transcripts, journals, and many other publications. It is a global resource, providing access to its online resources in many regions.
History
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]
John Naisbitt
, the author of the book
Megatrends
, founded NewsBank.
[1]
The company was launched in 1972.
[2]
NewsBank was bought from Naisbitt by Daniel S. Jones, who subsequently became its president.
[1]
[2]
Naisbitt left NewsBank in 1973.
[3]
In 1983, NewsBank acquired
Readex
.
[4]
[5]
With the completion of the merger, NewsBank had acquired one of the earliest organizations in America to archive
microform
.
[4]
[5]
The company's headquarters in 1986 was in
New Canaan, Connecticut
.
[6]
In that year, NewsBank had 100 in-house employees, while another 100 employees worked from home and traveled to the company's headquarters, bringing back newspapers to their residence from there, and then coming back to the company with indexed information on these publications.
[1]
Chris Andrews was brought on in 1986 as product manager for
CD-ROM
.
[1]
His job was to help the company transition from a paper format of delivery to libraries, so that its indexes and full-text articles were available in CD-ROM format.
[7]
The subscription price for this service initially was
US$
5,000 per library.
[7]
Visitors to libraries found that their search time was cut from 30 minutes using paper indexes to five minutes using CD-ROM.
[7]
NewsBank used an arbitrary selection process for determining which news articles the company considered worthy for archiving; it based their selection on articles that were more likely to be widely appealing to a larger potential audience of future researchers, not simply stories of regional interest.
[3]
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
microfiche
from more than 400 media publications in the US.
[8]
The company announced in 1993 a CD-ROM product indexing full text of 35 publications including
The Christian Science Monitor
,
The Washington Post
,
Los Angeles Times
,
The Dallas Morning News
,
Chicago Tribune
,
The Boston Globe
, and
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
.
[9]
In 1994, NewsBank was the only company providing researchers access to an index to periodical literature in the subject of
theater
, with its
NewsBank's Review of the Arts: Performing Arts
on CD-ROM.
[10]
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.
[11]
The
privately held company
was cited by
The Information Advisor
as bringing in annual revenue of approximately $19 million, and employing a staff of 350 people.
[11]
By 1998, NewsBank provided indexes via CD-ROM to newspaper articles from over 450 cities in the United States.
[12]
In 2001, NewsBank compiled the
Foreign Broadcast Information Service
index and made it available via CD-ROM.
[13]
NewsBank joined forces with Micromedia, Ltd., a division of IHS Canada, to help distribute its products in 2001.
[14]
In 2004 NewsBank maintained archival access to hundreds of media references since 1996.
[15]
In 2005, NewsBank was structured in a pay-for-use format, with access differentiated for different types of users including
public libraries
,
public schools
, as well as
higher education
settings.
[16]
In 2011 NewsBank reached an agreement with
The Daily Northwestern
newspaper of
Northwestern University
to archive all of its historical publications.
[17]
The task archived more than 90,000 pages of material from the school.
[17]
It included a plan to archive not just
The Daily Northwestern
but also prior related publications from 1871 to 2000, and index the material so it could be keyword searchable on the Internet.
[17]
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 Association.
[17]
Coverage
[
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]
In 2013, NewsBank provided users with its service Access World News, which according to
Reference Skills for the School Librarian
was then the "world's largest full-text news database".
[18]
In 2014 NewsBank contained over 990 news sources, covering U.S. state as well as national publications, along with television and radio programs.
[19]
NewsBank's offerings include a "Black Life in America" archive.
[20]
As of 2024
[update]
, NewsBank holds current and archived information from thousands of newspapers, along with
newswires
, blogs, videos, broadcast transcripts, journals, government documents, and other publications.
[21]
It is a global resource, providing online resources to many regions.
[22]
The
National Library of Australia
,
[23]
along with many state and university libraries in Australia, provide online access to NewsBank.
[24]
[25]
[26]
[27]
[28]
As of 2024
[update]
the resource holds over 760 Australian sources, both national and regional, with coverage for most titles starting in the 1980s, 1990s or 2000s.
[29]
Location and People
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]
NewsBank headquarters are in
Naples, Florida
, U.S., and it also has an office in
Mitcham North
,
Melbourne
, Australia.
[28]
The founding president and CEO is Dan Jones.
[30]
[31]
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.
[32]
See also
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References
[
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]
- ^
a
b
c
d
Andrews 1998, p. 17.
- ^
a
b
"Company Overview of NewsBank, Inc"
.
BloombergBusiness
. October 3, 2015. Archived from
the original
on October 3, 2015
. Retrieved
October 3,
2015
.
- ^
a
b
McClellan 1987, p. 87.
- ^
a
b
Fritze 2004, pp. 107?108; 291.
- ^
a
b
"Newsbank"
.
Newspapers.com
. October 22, 2000
. Retrieved
July 22,
2021
.
- ^
Andrews 1998, p. 18.
- ^
a
b
c
Andrews 1998, p. 19.
- ^
Anderson 1992, pp. 135?137.
- ^
"Full-text newspaper collections".
Information Today
. May 1, 1993.
- ^
Sheehy 1994, pp. 158?160.
- ^
a
b
"Searching business news on CD-ROM: Business NewsBank Plus vs. Business Dateline".
The Information Advisor
. January 1, 1994.
- ^
"Research papers can be breeze".
Post-Tribune
. September 18, 1998.
- ^
Sears 2001, p. 40.
- ^
"Micromedia, Ltd. Partners with NewsBank, Books24x7.Com".
Information Today
. March 1, 2001.
- ^
Martirosyan 2004, p. 160.
- ^
Martin 2005, pp. 36?37.
- ^
a
b
c
d
Leopold, Wendy (June 14, 2011). "130 years of Daily Northwestern".
State News Service
.
- ^
Riedling 2013, p. 93.
- ^
Hart 2014, p. 41.
- ^
"Black Life in America"
. November 30, 2020.
- ^
"About NewsBank"
.
NewsBank Inc
. October 4, 1972
. Retrieved
June 1,
2024
.
- ^
"Regional Libraries"
.
NewsBank Inc
. Retrieved
June 1,
2024
.
- ^
"NewsBank : access global NewsBank"
(Catalogue entry)
.
National Library of Australia
. November 30, 2021.
Archived
from the original on June 1, 2024
. Retrieved
June 1,
2024
.
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. (2021)
- ^
"A new eResource"
.
State Library of South Australia
. December 13, 2018
. Retrieved
June 1,
2024
.
- ^
"Newsbank including Access Australia"
.
State Library of New South Wales
: Eresources
. Retrieved
June 1,
2024
.
- ^
Grant, Caitlyn (July 8, 2023).
"State Library Victoria Online Collection Spotlight: Access Australia by NewsBank"
.
State Library Victoria
: Blog
. Retrieved
June 1,
2024
.
- ^
"Newsbank Access Australia"
(Catalogue entry)
.
Deakin University
Library
. Retrieved
June 1,
2024
.
- ^
a
b
"Newsbank"
(Catalogue entry)
.
University of Western Australia
Library
. Retrieved
June 1,
2024
.
- ^
"Access Australia"
.
NewsBank Inc
. Retrieved
June 1,
2024
.
- ^
Gruss, Jean (September 6, 2013).
"Keep the news alive"
.
Business Observer
. Retrieved
June 1,
2024
.
- ^
Scott, Drew (November 16, 2021).
"Digitized historic newspapers fill unique research niche"
.
Northwestern University
. Retrieved
June 1,
2024
.
- ^
"Daniel Jones Obituary (1972"
.
Legacy.com
. February 2, 2024
. Retrieved
June 1,
2024
.
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Library Services for Career Planning, Job Searching and Employment Opportunities
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Local and Regional Government Information
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.
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.
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Scholars' Guide to Washington, D.C. for Central Asian and Caucasus Studies
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.
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.
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.
Further reading
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.