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
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ArchiveGrid is a free online discovery service maintained by OCLC Research that aggregates descriptions of archival collections held by libraries, museums, historical societies, and archives worldwide. Its origins trace to 1998, when the Research Libraries Group (RLG)—itself founded in 1974 by Columbia, Harvard, Yale, and the New York Public Library—launched the RLG Archival Resources database. After a redesign, RLG formally launched ArchiveGrid in March 2006. Following the merger of RLG with OCLC in 2006, ArchiveGrid was offered as a subscription-based discovery service until 2012, when it became freely available as part of OCLC Research's experimental and collaborative services platform.
ArchiveGrid currently holds over 7 million records describing archival materials, drawn from two principal sources: MARC bibliographic records contributed to OCLC's WorldCat database (which constitute more than 90% of the content), and EAD, HTML, or PDF finding aids harvested directly from contributing institutions. More than 1,400 archival institutions from the United States and internationally—including Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom—are represented. The aggregation covers historical documents, personal papers, family histories, photographs, sound recordings, and other primary source materials.
ArchiveGrid is a valuable discovery tool for journalism and media historians, enabling researchers to locate primary sources such as personal papers of journalists, editors, and media executives; records of news organizations; and broadcast archives held across thousands of institutions. Its map-based and keyword search interface allows targeted discovery across a wide range of repository types.
ArchiveGrid is freely accessible at researchworks.oclc.org/archivegrid. Institutions wishing to contribute their collections can do so at no cost by submitting MARC records to WorldCat or by providing a URL from which finding aids can be harvested. Finding aids are re-indexed approximately every six weeks. The service is not a full production system but is supported as an experiment in text mining, data analysis, and discovery system design by OCLC Research. OCLC's offices are located at 6565 Kilgour Place, Dublin, Ohio.