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{{short description|News database resource}}
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'''NewsBank''' is a news database resource that provides archives of media publications as reference materials to libraries.

==History==
[[John Naisbitt]], the author of the book ''Megatrends'', founded NewsBank.<ref name="andrews17">Andrews 1998, p. 17.</ref> The company was launched in 1972.<ref name="bloomberg">{{cite news|access-date=October 3, 2015|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=4533536|work=BloombergBusiness|title=Company Overview of NewsBank, Inc.|date=October 3, 2015|archive-date=October 3, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151003103548/http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=4533536}}</ref> NewsBank was bought from Naisbitt by Daniel S. Jones, who subsequently became its president.<ref name="andrews17" /><ref name="bloomberg" /> Naisbitt left NewsBank in 1973.<ref name="mcclellan87">McClellan 1987, p. 87.</ref> In 1983, NewsBank acquired [[Readex]].<ref name="fritze" /><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|date=22 October 2000|title=Newsbank|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/532842116/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-07-22|website=Newspapers.com|language=en}}</ref> With the completion of the merger, NewsBank had acquired one of the earliest organizations in America to archive [[microform]].<ref name="fritze" /><ref name=":0" />

In 1986, NewsBank had one hundred employees in-house.<ref name="andrews17" /> Another one hundred employees worked from home and traveled to the company's headquarters, bringing back newspapers to their residence from there, and then coming back to the company with indexed information on these publications.<ref name="andrews17" /> The company's headquarters in 1986 was in [[New Canaan, Connecticut]].<ref name="andrews18">Andrews 1998, p. 18.</ref>

Chris Andrews was brought on in 1986 as product manager for CD-ROM.<ref name="andrews17" /> His job was to help the company transition from a paper format of delivery to libraries, so that its indexes and full-text articles were available in [[CD-ROM]] format.<ref name="andrews19">Andrews 1998, p. 19.</ref> The subscription price for this service initially was [[United States dollar|US$]]5,000 per library.<ref name="andrews19" /> Visitors to libraries found that their search time was cut from 30 minutes using paper indexes to five minutes using CD-ROM.<ref name="andrews19" /> NewsBank used an arbitrary selection process for determining which news articles the company considered worthy for archiving; it based their selection on articles that were more likely to be widely appealing to a larger potential audience of future researchers, not simply stories of regional interest.<ref name="mcclellan87" />

In 1992, NewsBank had difficulty providing its users with a method to search for information based upon a specific location. Newspaper results were listed by subject matter first and then subsequently by location. At the time, it indexed articles via [[microfiche]] from more than 400 media publications in the United States.<ref name="byronanderson">Anderson 1992, pp. 135–137.</ref> The company announced in 1993 a CD-ROM product indexing full text of 35 publications including ''[[The Christian Science Monitor]]'', ''[[The Washington Post]]'', ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', ''[[The Dallas Morning News]]'', ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'', ''[[The Boston Globe]]'', and ''[[The Atlanta Journal-Constitution]]''.<ref name="fulltextnewspaper">{{cite news|via=[[HighBeam Research]]|title=Full-text newspaper collections|work=Information Today|date=May 1, 1993}}</ref>

In 1994, NewsBank was the only company providing researchers access to an index to periodical literature in the subject of [[theater]] with its ''NewsBank's Review of the Arts: Performing Arts'' on CD-ROM.<ref name="sheehy">Sheehy 1994, pp. 158–160.</ref> NewsBank started compiling the full text of articles related to the local economy of geographic areas and providing this information via CD-ROM to its clients in 1994.<ref name="searchingbusiness">{{cite news|via=[[HighBeam Research]]|title=Searching business news on CD-ROM: Business NewsBank Plus vs. Business Dateline|date=January 1, 1994|work=The Information Advisor}}</ref> The [[privately held company]] was cited by ''The Information Advisor'' as bringing in annual revenue of approximately $19 million, and employing a staff of 350 people.<ref name="searchingbusiness" /> By 1998, NewsBank provided indexes via CD-ROM to newspaper articles from over 450 cities in the United States.<ref name="researchpapers">{{cite news|via=[[HighBeam Research]]|title=Research papers can be breeze|date=September 18, 1998|work=[[Post-Tribune (Indiana newspaper)|Post-Tribune]]}}</ref>

In 2001, NewsBank compiled the [[Foreign Broadcast Information Service]] index and made it available via CD-ROM.<ref name="usinggovernment">Sears 2001, p. 40.</ref> NewsBank joined forces with Micromedia, Ltd., a division of IHS Canada, to help distribute its products in 2001.<ref name="micromedia">{{cite news|via=[[HighBeam Research]]|title=Micromedia, Ltd. Partners with NewsBank, Books24x7.Com|date=March 1, 2001|work=Information Today}}</ref> In 2004 NewsBank maintained archival access to hundreds of media references since 1996.<ref name="scholarsguide">Martirosyan 2004, p. 160.</ref> In 2005, NewsBank was structured in a pay-for-use format, with access differentiated for different types of users including [[public library|public libraries]], [[State school|public schools]], as well as [[higher education]] settings.<ref name="localandregional">Martin 2005, pp. 36–37.</ref>

NewsBank reached an agreement in 2011 with ''[[The Daily Northwestern]]'' newspaper of [[Northwestern University]] to archive all of its historical publications.<ref name="leopold">{{cite news|via=[[HighBeam Research]]|title=130 years of Daily Northwestern|date=June 14, 2011|work=State News Service|first=Wendy|last=Leopold}}</ref> The task archived more than 90,000 pages of material from the school.<ref name="leopold" /> It included a plan to archive not just ''The Daily Northwestern'' but also prior related publications from 1871 to 2000, and index the material so it could be keyword searchable on the Internet.<ref name="leopold" /> Dan Jones, President and CEO of NewsBank, had a prior relationship with the university, serving as a university trustee and president-elect of the Northwestern Alumni Association.<ref name="leopold" />

In 2013, NewsBank provided users with its service Access World News, which ''Reference Skills for the School Librarian'' called the "world's largest full-text news database".<ref name="riedling" /> According to the book ''Communication and Language Analysis in the Public Sphere'', in 2014 NewsBank contained "over 990 news sources, with each state in the U.S. represented, as well as national publications, television and radio programs."<ref name="hart">Hart 2014, p. 41.</ref>

NewsBank's offerings include a Black Life in America archive.<ref>https://www.newsbank.com/libraries/schools/solutions/specialized/black-life-america</ref>

==Reception==
The 2004 book ''Reference Sources in History'' by Ronald H. Fritze, Brian E. Coutts, and Louis Andrew Vyhnanek wrote that: "NewsBank is one of the world's largest information providers."<ref name="fritze">Fritze 2004, pp. 107–108; 291.</ref> In her book ''Journalism: A Guide to the Reference Literature'' (2004), Jo A. Cates said: "NewsBank is a massive database, the NewsFile Collection alone providing access to full text articles in more than 500 newspapers, wire services, and broadcasts."<ref name="cates">Cates 2004, pp. 82–83.</ref> The 2013 book ''Reference Skills for the School Librarian'' by authors Ann Marlow Riedling, Loretta Shake, and Cynthia Houston called NewsBank a "popular indexing series".<ref name="riedling">Riedling 2013, p. 93.</ref> They pointed out that NewsBank provided access to "an easy-to-search database of articles, activities, and lesson plans for the elementary and middle grades, covering key issues and events in every subject area."<ref name="riedling" />

==See also==
*[[GenealogyBank.com]]
*[[HighBeam Research]]
*[[LexisNexis]]
*[[Westlaw]]

==Notes==
{{Reflist|2}}

==References==
*{{cite book|pages=135–137|first=Byron|last=Anderson|year=1992|title=Library Services for Career Planning, Job Searching and Employment Opportunities|publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1560243038}}
*{{cite book|title=The Education of a CD-ROM Publisher: An Insider's History of Electronic Publishing|year=1998|publisher=Information Today Inc|first=Chris|last=Andrews|isbn= 978-0966458619}}
*{{cite book|year=2004|title=Journalism: A Guide to the Reference Literature|publisher=Libraries Unlimited|isbn=978-1591580614|series=Reference Sources in the Humanities|first=Jo A. |last=Cates|pages=82–83}}
*{{cite book|year=2004|title=Reference Sources in History|url=https://archive.org/details/referencesources0000frit_a2s9/page/107|url-access=registration|pages=[https://archive.org/details/referencesources0000frit_a2s9/page/107 107–108; 291]|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0874368833|first=Ronald H.|last=Fritze|author2=Brian E. Coutts|author3=Louis Andrew Vyhnanek}}
*{{cite book|page=41|title= Communication and Language Analysis in the Public Sphere|last=Hart|first=Roderick P.|series=Advances in Linguistics and Communication Studies|publisher=IGI Global|isbn=978-1466650039|year=2014}}
*{{cite book|pages=[https://archive.org/details/localregionalgov0000unse/page/36 36–37]|title=Local and Regional Government Information|first=Mary|last=Martin|year=2005|publisher=Greenwood|isbn=978-1573564120|url=https://archive.org/details/localregionalgov0000unse/page/36}}
*{{cite book|title=Scholars' Guide to Washington, D.C. for Central Asian and Caucasus Studies|page=160|series= Studies of Central Asia and the Caucasus|year=2004|isbn=978-0765615794|first= Tigran |last=Martirosyan|author2= Silvia Maretti}}
*{{cite book|year=1987|title=EAPs and the Information Revolution|first=Keith |last=McClellan|publisher=Employee Assistance Quarterly|isbn=978-0866566063}}
*{{cite book|title=Reference Skills for the School Librarian|page=93|first= Ann Marlow|last= Riedling|author2=Loretta Shake|author3=Cynthia Houston|publisher=Linworth|isbn=978-1586835286|year=2013}}
*{{cite book|title=Using Government Information Sources|year=2001|first=Jean L.|last=Sears|author2=Marilyn K. Mood|publisher=Greenwood|isbn=978-1573562881|page=[https://archive.org/details/usinggovernmenti0000sear/page/40 40]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/usinggovernmenti0000sear/page/40}}
*{{cite book|pages=[https://archive.org/details/managingperformi0000unse/page/158 158–160]|title=Managing Performing Arts Collections in Academic and Public Libraries|first=Carolyn A.|last=Sheehy|year=1994|series=Libraries Unlimited Library Management Collection|publisher=Libraries Unlimited|isbn=978-0313279768|url=https://archive.org/details/managingperformi0000unse/page/158}}

==Further reading==
*{{cite book|title=The Education of a CD-ROM Publisher: An Insider's History of Electronic Publishing|year=1998|publisher=Information Today Inc|first=Chris|last=Andrews|isbn= 978-0966458619}}

==External links==
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*{{Official website|http://www.newsbank.com/}}

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[[Category:Companies based in Naples, Florida]]
[[Category:Online mass media companies of the United States]]
[[Category:Internet search engines]]
[[Category:Online archives of the United States]]
[[Category:Bibliographic database providers]]
[[Category:Bibliographic databases and indexes]]

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