You can see a full list by going to the home page and selecting the “title navigation” link. There are a couple of titles from the 19 th century, but the majority are 20 th century, and in fact most are post-1945. The coverage of titles in this collection is wide-ranging and generally later than the titles in the Readex database. There are also three titles in South Asian languages, the Dainika Basumati (Bengali), Dnyanaprakasa (Marathi) and Samaja (Nepali).
This collection complements nicely the Readex database, comprising a further dozen titles, including the Ceylon Daily News, the Malabar Herald and the Pakistan Observer. This is a new open access resource, hosted by East View in collaboration with the Center for Research Libraries, and it is part of East View’s Global Press Archive database. The other database is the near identically-named South Asian newspapers (to distinguish them on SOLO and Databases A-Z look out for the subtitle/lack of a subtitle). Readers can see a full listing with dates. As with all these databases, some gaps are inevitable. The latest date covered is 31 st December 1922, for which copies of four separate titles are available. The earliest issue available is the 30 th November 1864 issue of the Ceylon Observer’s predecessor, the Colombo Overland Observer. The dates of coverage are not the same for each title. I am following up the question of keyword searching for these particular titles with the supplier. These are Amrita Bazar Patrika, Bankura Darpan and Kayasare Hinda and although full-text search is not available, browsing by date of publication is straightforward and readers can easily scroll through individual issues. Unfortunately, keyword searching does not seem to be possible for the titles in South Asian languages.
The database provides scans of original pages and the contents can be searched by keyword or browsed by date. This gives access to 10 publications, including Amrita Bazar Patrika, the Ceylon Observer, and the Madras Mail. The first is Readex’s South Asian newspapers : historical newspapers from South Asia. We are very pleased to let historians know that Oxford now has access to two new South Asian newspaper databases.
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