{"id":2004,"date":"2021-06-16T15:25:38","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T15:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/?p=2004"},"modified":"2021-06-16T15:25:38","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T15:25:38","slug":"new-global-press-archive-oa-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/2021\/06\/16\/new-global-press-archive-oa-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"New Global Press Archive OA Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Phase 1 of the Global Press Archive Alliance initiative, funded by libraries like ours, is going strong. Here&#8217;s an update on current and future Open Access newspaper collections that will be released through the GPA:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Imperial Russian Newspapers:<\/strong> The Alliance\u2019s fourth open-access collection spans the eighteenth through early twentieth centuries and includes core titles from Moscow and Saint Petersburg as well as regional newspapers across the Russian Empire. A preliminary batch of 230,000 pages was\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crl.edu\/news\/crl-and-east-view-release-open-access-imperial-russian-newspapers\" target=\"_blank\">released in April<\/a>\u00a0and can be accessed through East View\u2019s Global Press Archive platform:\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/gpa.eastview.com\/crl\/irn\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/gpa.eastview.com\/crl\/irn\/<\/a>.<\/li><li><strong>Southeast Asian Newspapers:<\/strong> Titles for the fifth open-access collection, focused on Southeast Asia, have been prioritized by Hao Phan (Northern Illinois), Larry Ashmun (Wisconsin), Fe Susan T Go (Michigan), Yati Barnard (Hawaii), and Zo\u00eb McLaughlin (Michigan State). In choosing titles for digitization, the selectors aimed to illuminate smaller, and under-publicized, Southeast Asian newspapers in the hopes that making these materials available open-access will lead to further engagement from researchers and institutions around the globe. Reels totalling 500,000 pages will begin to be digitized (by East View) this summer.<\/li><li><strong>South Asian Newspapers:<\/strong> GPA Advisory Group members recently approved South Asia as the geographic focus for the final open-access collection of Phase 1 of the GPA Alliance. A group of selectors from CRL member libraries is being assembled to prioritize an additional 500,000 pages for digitization, with the goal of having titles selected by September 2021.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>In case you missed them, the first three OA collections released through the GPA Alliance are available now, and set up as database assets in our system:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese Newspapers:<\/strong> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/gpa.eastview.com\/crl\/lqrcn\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/gpa.eastview.com\/crl\/lqrcn\/<\/a><\/li><li><strong>Middle Eastern and North African Newspapers:<\/strong> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/gpa.eastview.com\/crl\/mena\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/gpa.eastview.com\/crl\/mena\/<\/a><\/li><li><strong>Independent and Revolutionary Mexican Newspapers: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gpa.eastview.com\/crl\/mena\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/gpa.eastview.com\/crl\/mena\/<\/a><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phase 1 of the Global Press Archive Alliance initiative, funded by libraries like ours, is going strong. Here&#8217;s an update on current and future Open Access newspaper collections that will be released through the GPA: Imperial Russian Newspapers: The Alliance\u2019s fourth open-access collection spans the eighteenth through early twentieth centuries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2005,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004\/revisions\/2005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}