The German Newspaper Portal

Historical newspapers are an important resource for academic research in various disciplines – particularly in Germany, where the newspaper sector is and always has been particularly diverse and prolific. The large-scale digitisation, full-text cataloguing and provision of online access to historical newspapers is an important desideratum. The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) has set up funding programmes in 2018 and 2019 to support this work. The Deutsche Zeitungsportal went online in October 2021 with almost 600,000 issues.

Lisa Landes, project manager for the German Digital Library (DDB), speaks about the German Newspaper Portal.