Delpher
Delpher is a website providing full-text Dutch-language digitized historical newspapers, books, journals and copy sheets for radio news broadcasts. The material is provided by libraries, museums and other heritage institutions.[1] Delpher is freely available and includes about 1 million newspapers, 180,000 books and 1.5 million journal pages.[2]
The site provides a valuable source of historical texts in the Dutch language. An extended guide on how to use the vast database can be found at historiek.net.[3]
Collections
- Books: 180,000 books, from the 17th century onwards
- Journals: 80 journal titles from 1850-1940 [2]
- Newspapers: about 8 million pages from the Netherlands, Dutch East Indies, Netherlands Antilles and Surinam, from between 1618 and 1995. This represents about 10% of the total published output in this period.[2]
- Typoscripts for radio broadcasts by the Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau (ANP), 1.8 million typed sheets from 1937 to 1984.[2]
Notes
- "Delpher". University Library. Retrieved July 17, 2015.
- "Delpher - Collecties". delpher.nl. Retrieved July 15, 2015.
- "Delpher.nl: goudmijn voor historische informatie (Delpher.nl: goldmine for historic information)". Historiek.net (in Dutch).
External links
- (in Dutch) Official website
- (in Dutch) Geschiedenis24 tests Delpher; New search system of great value for research, Jurryt van de Vooren on NPO Geschiedenis, 20-11-2013
- (in Dutch) Van beta naar beter, M. Napolitano en M. Laan, Informatieprofessional 2015-01 (offline)
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