14 Facts About NewsBank

NewsBank is a news database resource that provides archives of media publications as reference materials to libraries.

NewsBank was bought from Naisbitt by Daniel S Jones, who subsequently became its president.

NewsBank's 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.

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.

In 1992, NewsBank had difficulty providing its users with a method to search for information based upon a specific location.

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NewsBank 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.

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.

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.

In 2001, NewsBank compiled the Foreign Broadcast Information Service index and made it available via CD-ROM.

In 2004 NewsBank maintained archival access to hundreds of media references since 1996.

In 2005, NewsBank was structured in a pay-for-use format, with access differentiated for different types of users including public libraries, public schools, as well as higher education settings.

NewsBank reached an agreement in 2011 with The Daily Northwestern newspaper of Northwestern University to archive all of its historical publications.

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.

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".