News Paper Database

[Dr. Dimple]

Please give me suggestion about the news paper database providers in India.

Which is the better way to store old news papers, can we digitize it? what is the technique of digitize? or any other suggestions regarding it. Do news paper agency keep CD's of this?  

[Abilash Achuthan]

Hope you will find the information useful

http://tls.proquest.com/tls/servlet/ListForward?productID=93&pr...

[Arjun S]

Hello Madam

Please give me your email ID, and ill send you a few links of newspaper databases. But as mentioned by Abilash, the best one would be ProQuest. 

-Arjun

[SHIROMANI BAJAJ]

Sir,

Is there any way that we can create our own data base and   and store the digitized newspapers in our library. How can be digitized it, can you help in this. You can inform me at  [e-mail]. What will be requirements to maintain this.

Regards,

Shiromani

[Siddhartha Shankar Ray]

Dear Ms. Bajaj,

Please check your mail.

Regards,

Siddhartha S. Ray

[Dr. Dimple]

Thanks Sir my Email ID is [e-mail]

[Siddhartha Shankar Ray]

Dear Ms. Dimple

Digitization is a viable way to store old newspapers. However, there is the concept of copyright. As I understand, the LOC has now stopped digitizing the newspapers for copyright issues.

Admittedly, the paper copies of daily newspapers you have purchased are certainly your own property as you have paid for them and thus you OWN them.  As such, in that sense, if you digitize them for your internal purpose, I think, the publishers don't mind. Your point will be that you are unable to keep the hard copies for constrains of space & maintenance and that is why you have kept them in digital format. I got my above statement clarified over phone by the biggest publishing house in the city and learnt that as long as it is FOR YOUR INTERNAL USE and as long as YOU ARE NOT COMMERCIALLY USING them you can go ahead.

However, it is always advisable to make an informal conversation with the publisher that owing to space & maintenance constrains, you need to keep the digitized copies. And it is always preferable to discuss such issues upon personal visit and not through correspondences. If during such discussions, they agree, then you can send them a formal letter conveying thanks profusely referring your visit and discussions. But always draft the letter in such a way that it does not sound as a legal intimation!! I hope you all can understand what I meant !!

We in our institute have digitized the entire collection of English daily AMRITA BAZAR PATRIKA (from 1870 to 1949) & Bengali Daily JUGANTAR (1937-1980). They have ceased publications since mid Eighties and closed down. There is no copyright owner as of now. We have launched them in our website as well. But we do not make (or never did we make) any commercial use of them.

As I understand, by and large most of the Newspaper houses keep their copies in digital format.

Sincerely,

Siddhartha S. Ray, Calcutta

[Dr. Dimple]

Thank you Siddharth Sir. This archival work of digitizing news papers is required since 1970 these are available in library as bound volume. Is it possible to digitize them. Their pages are started tearing and some of their printing start missing the words. so what can be solution for that.

[Siddhartha Shankar Ray]

Dear Ms. Dimple.

Certainly you can digitize the old news papers.

All you need to have a good flatbed scanner and competent staff who can conform to standard (ANSI/NISO Z31-2 -1994) if you want to do indigenously.

Otherwise, you can opt for outsourcing of "Onsite digitization" it will enable you to cut the cost to some extent & evade many complex problems as I presume. (though certain outsourcing agents levy extra charges for staff deployment, their accommodation & incidental costs over & above the cost earmarked for digitization. So you can negotiate as the situation demands)

Sincerely,

Siddhartha S. Ray, Calcutta

[Pramod Kumar Meher]

dear sir please send me the link in my id

[e-mail]

[Siddhartha Shankar Ray]

Dear Sri Pramod Kumar Meher http://eap.bl.uk/database/overview_project.a4d?projID=EAP262;r=41

[Dr. Dimple]

Thank you very much Siddhartha Sir for your valuable suggestion sir any particular vendor who are taking this type of contact of digitization so that we can directly ask them about the cost. Sir do new paper publish keep CD's of their publishing? Do they sell it?

[Dr. Dimple]

Thank you very much Siddhartha Sir for your valuable suggestion sir any particular vendor who are taking this type of contact of digitization so that we can directly ask them about the cost. Sir do new paper publisher keep CD's of their publishing? Do they sell it?