[Commons-Law] Fwd: Over 225 years of Spanish journalism now on the web

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Over 225 years of Spanish journalism now on the web
By    IANS
Monday,09 March 2009, 09:01 hrs

Link: http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews/53307

Madrid: Material from 2,000 newspapers published in Spain and Latin
America from 1777 up to 2005, amounting to 4.3 million pages, can now
be consulted on the Internet.

It is available at the site of the Virtual Press History Library
(Biblioteca Virtual de Prensa Historica, in Spanish).

On the web page prensahistorica.mcu.es the Spanish Culture Ministry
has made accessible the entire contents of all the country's public
libraries as well as those of other institutions with which it has
signed agreements, including city halls and universities, as well as
newspapers with whom it has agreed to make public their publishing
history.

The virtual library's aim is to simultaneously preserve and make
accessible library materials that are unique and, thus, otherwise
difficult to access.

The online library is one of the main digitisation projects to be
carried out in Spain.