Who's behind the news?
Who's behind the news?
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Newsjunkie.net is a resource guide for journalists. We show who's behind the news, and provide tools to help navigate the modern business of information.
Use of Data
This revised Guide to Public Archives expands on Newsjunkie’s directory of institutions that preserve the world’s recorded knowledge—libraries, archives, repositories, and digital collections that safeguard history, science, government records, and cultural memory. Revamped and expanded, the Guide is designed to help researchers, journalists, scholars, and curious readers quickly find where information lives and how to access it.
Each entry provides practical details about an archive’s subject focus, location, hours, and access policies, whether the collection exists in a physical reading room, a digital repository, or both. The Guide can be explored through interactive maps, curated lists, and searchable pages, making it easier to navigate the vast network of public archives that keep the record of our world available to everyone.
This Guide is a directory to the world’s knowledge repositories, physical and digital. It provides information on an archive’s subject matter, location and hours, and how to access.
Maps: Click here for a visual guide to the world’s archives
Lists are in two forms:
Table of contents (above)
Search result sets
Pages are single subject: a category of archive, or a specific archive (similar to Wikipedia)
Portal: Start with the Table of Contents (above). Click a section to explore. A list of matching archives will appear, from which you can choose the ones you want to check out.
Section search: Use Newsjunkie advanced search to explore the database by filtered criteria. For example: select archive and military to find results for military archives.
General search: Use Newsjunkie general search to explore based on keywords.