access to the world s largest repository of reliable information formation 1972 founder john naisbitt merger of readex type corporation legal status active headquarters naples florida region united states and canada services news database and educational archive resource official language english president and ceo dan jones website www.newsbank.com newsbank is a news database resource which provides archives of media publications as reference materials to libraries . the 2004 book reference sources in history called newsbank one of the world s largest information providers . 1 journalism a guide to the reference literature a book published in the same year characterized newsbank as a massive database . 2 the 2013 book reference skills for the school librarian identified newsbank as a popular indexing series with most useful resources for teachers and school libraries . 3 contents 1 history 2 reception 3 see also 4 notes 5 references 6 further reading 7 external links history edit author of the book megatrends john naisbitt founded newsbank . 4 the company was launched in 1972 . 5 newsbank was then bought from naisbitt by daniel s. jones who subsequently became its president . 4 5 naisbitt left newsbank in 1973 . 6 in 1986 newsbank had one hundred employees in house . 4 another one hundred employees worked from home and would travel to the company s headquarters bring back newspapers to their residence from there and then come back to the company with indexed information on these publications . 4 the company s headquarters in 1986 was located in new canaan connecticut . 7 chris andrews was brought on in 1986 as product manager for cd rom . 4 his job was to help the company transition from a paper format of delivery to libraries to instead provide its indexes and full text articles on cd rom format . 8 the subscription price for this service initially was us 5 000 per library . 8 visitors to libraries with the new cd rom services found that their research time searching through the cd rom index instead of paper indexes was cut down from 30 minutes to five minutes . 8 newsbank used an arbitrary selection process for determining which news articles the company considered worthy for archiving ; it based this on those that were not simply stories of regional interest and that were more widely appealing to a larger potential audience of future researchers . 6 wikisource has original text related to this article 1997 newsbank president daniel s. jones statement before united states congress 1997 newsbank president daniel s. jones statement before united states congress . in 1992 newsbank had difficulty providing its users with a method to search for information based upon a specific geographic position . 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 . 9 the company announced in 1993 that it would provide a cd rom product indexing full text of newspapers from 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 . 10 in 1994 newsbank was the only company to provide access to an index to periodical literature in the subject of theater . 11 the only method accessible at the time to researchers in the field was newsbank s review of the arts performing arts . 11 newsbank provided access to this service via cd rom . 11 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 . 12 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 . 12 by 1998 newsbank provided indexes via cd rom to newspaper articles from over 450 cities in the united states . 13 in 2000 newsbank merged with readex . 1 with the closure of the merger newsbank had acquired one of the earliest organizations to archive microform in america . 1 in 2001 newsbank compiled the foreign broadcast information service fbis index and made it available via cd rom . 14 newsbank joined forces with micromedia ltd. a division of ihs canada to help distribute its products in 2001 . 15 in 2004 newsbank maintained archival access to hundreds of media references from the period of 1996 to current day . 16 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 . 17 newsbank reached an agreement in 2011 with the daily northwestern newspaper of northwestern university to archive all of its historical publications . 18 the task would archive more than 90 000 pages of total material from the school . 18 it included a plan to archive not just the daily northwestern but also prior related publications from a time period of 1871 to 2000 and index this material so it could be keyword searchable on the internet . 18 dan jones president and ceo of newsbank had a prior relationship with the university at the time serving as university trustee and president elect of the northwestern alumni association . 18 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 . 3 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 . 19 reception edit 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 . 1 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 . 2 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 . 3 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 . 3 see also edit library and information science portal highbeam research lexisnexis westlaw notes edit a b c d fritze 2004 pp. 107 108 ; 291 . a b cates 2004 pp. 82 83 . a b c d riedling 2013 p. 93 . a b c d e andrews 1998 p. 17 . a b company overview of newsbank inc. . bloombergbusiness . october 3 2015 . archived from the original on october 3 2015 . retrieved october 3 2015 . a b mcclellan 1987 p. 87 . andrews 1998 p. 18 . a b c andrews 1998 p. 19 . anderson 1992 pp. 135 137 . full text newspaper collections . information today . may 1 1993 via highbeam research . a b c sheehy 1994 pp. 158 160 . a b searching business news on cd rom business newsbank plus vs. business dateline . the information advisor . january 1 1994 via highbeam research . research papers can be breeze . post tribune . september 18 1998 via highbeam research . sears 2001 p. 40 . micromedia ltd. partners with newsbank books24x7.com . information today . march 1 2001 via highbeam research . martirosyan 2004 p. 160 . martin 2005 pp. 36 37 . a b c d leopold wendy june 14 2011 . 130 years of daily northwestern . state news service via highbeam research . hart 2014 p. 41 . references edit anderson byron 1992 . library services for career planning job searching and employment opportunities . routledge . pp. 135 137 . isbn 978 156024303 8 . andrews chris 1998 . the education of a cd rom publisher an insider s history of electronic publishing . information today inc. isbn 978 096645861 9 . cates jo a. 2004 . journalism a guide to the reference literature . reference sources in the humanities . libraries unlimited . pp. 82 83 . isbn 978 159158061 4 . fritze ronald h. ; brian e. coutts ; louis andrew vyhnanek 2004 . reference sources in history . abc clio . pp. 107 108 ; 291 . isbn 978 087436883 3 . hart roderick p. 2014 . communication and language analysis in the public sphere . advances in linguistics and communication studies . igi global . p. 41 . isbn 978 146665003 9 . martin mary 2005 . local and regional government information . greenwood . pp. 36 37 . isbn 978 157356412 0 . martirosyan tigran ; silvia maretti 2004 . scholars guide to washington d.c. for central asian and caucasus studies . studies of central asia and the caucasus . p. 160 . isbn 978 076561579 4 . mcclellan keith 1987 . eaps and the information revolution . employee assistance quarterly . isbn 978 086656606 3 . riedling ann marlow ; loretta shake ; cynthia houston 2013 . reference skills for the school librarian . linworth . p. 93 . isbn 978 158683528 6 . sears jean l. ; marilyn k. mood 2001 . using government information sources . greenwood . p. 40 . isbn 978 157356288 1 . sheehy carolyn a. 1994 . managing performing arts collections in academic and public libraries . libraries unlimited library management collection . libraries unlimited . pp. 158 160 . isbn 978 031327976 8 . further reading edit andrews chris 1998 . the education of a cd rom publisher an insider s history of electronic publishing . information today inc. isbn 978 096645861 9 . external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to newsbank inc. . official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title newsbank inc. & oldid 726486311 categories companies based in naples floridainternet companies of the united statesinternet search enginesonline archivesamerican websitesbibliographic database providersbibliographic databases and indexeshidden categories commons category with page title different than on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commonswikisource languages simple english edit links this page was last modified on 22 june 2016 at 13 59 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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