Archives of The Christian Science Monitor are now
available for access through ProQuest Co.’s Historical Newspapers program.
“We’re delighted with
this project,” said Steve Gray, managing publisher of The Monitor. “It
will place the rich historical value of The Monitor online for researchers
around the world.”
Gray said having The Monitor’s
pages available digitally will enable users to see the context in which a
particular story was played, find out what else was happening and, by reading
the ads, determine what was on sales at the stores at the time.
The Monitor’s archives
include PDFs of every page of every issue from 1908 to 1990, encompassing more
than 800,000 pages.
ProQuest will add a year of
coverage annually.
Readers can use a variety of
search techniques to find specific information or browse through issues page
by page.
Indexing and abstracts of The
Monitor dating from 1988 forward are also available electronically from
ProQuest. Both the archive and the current file can be accessed by subscribers
using ProQuest’s Web-based online information service.
The Monitor is the latest
newspaper to be added to ProQuest’s Historical Newspapers program, rolled
out in 2001. It joins The New York Times (1851-1999), The Wall Street Journal
(1889-1985) and The Washington Post (1877-1987) as newspapers whose content is
available to educational institutions and libraries worldwide. Content from
the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times will also be added.