Databases

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Online databases provide access to both current and historical content. Some allow searching in the full text of newspapers, some are online bibliographies, and some consist of detailed bibliographic records of newspapers with holdings information. Databases that allow searching within all texts make it is easy to find information, and also to copy or download sections, which also makes it easier to get the text translated, should you need help understanding the language.

Some disadvantages of databases are that they are usually not complete, and one needs to discover what kind of databases even exist. Many require a subscription, and researchers cannot get access to their content through interlibrary loans. If you are unable to visit the Library of Congress, you may be able to access these resources through your local public or academic library.

Researchers can also search articles, e-books and other e-resources available at the Library of Congress using Primo, the Library's web scale discovery service. All the databases available at the Library are listed here: DATABASES: Library of Congress E-Resources Online Catalog

The subscription resources marked with a padlock are available to researchers on-site at the Library of Congress. If you are unable to visit the Library, you may be able to access these resources through your local public or academic library.

ANNO External

AustriaN Newspaper Online (ANNO) is the Austrian National Library's newspaper and magazine database of digitized titles. It has Hungarian language papers and papers published in Hungary as well.

Arcanum Digitheca External This link opens in a new window
ADT Arcanum Digitheca is the largest Hungarian database containing scientific journals, encyclopedias, newspapers and series with over 50 million pages of scientific and cultural documents from the 1700s-present. Allows full text search, and contains an option for translating the text into English. Contains close to 5,000 titles from the earliest issues to current ones.
Chronicling America This link opens in a new window

Chronicling America provides free access to millions of pages of historic American public domain newspapers. More than 3000 titles, published in 48 states and territories and the District of Columbia are available (eventual coverage will be all states and territories, 1690-1963). The headlines, articles and advertisements capture the life and times of the American people, shining new light on historic events as they unfolded. Also provides a link to find information about newspapers published in the United States from 1690. Produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress.

DiFMOE External

Bibliothek des Digitalen Forums Mittel- und Osteuropa = Library of the Digital Forum of Central and Eastern Europe provides access to historical printed works from multi-ethnic cultural landscapes in Eastern Europe - especially those with (formerly) larger German or German-speaking populations.
EDIT (ELTE Digital Institutional Repository) External

Eötvös Loránd University's Digital Institutional Repository is a storage of documents and archives. One of the collections is called "1956-os lapgyűjtemény" = collection of papers from 1956. It contains some 130 titles that can be viewed and downloaded, but one cannot search within the text.
EPA External

The Electronic Periodicals Archive & Database (EPA) of the National Széchény Library stores the bibliographic data and access information of the Hungary-related e-journals. Users can search the database by title, available years, subject, type, and form of archiving and thus type of access. Full-text search is possible in those hundreds of titles that the database has digitized issues for.
Hungaricana External

The website provides access to many forms of national resources collected from archives, museums, government agencies, and libraries. Newspapers can be found in various collections:
Local history of Budapest External
Periodicals from the Hungarian Parliament’s collection External
Collections from abroad and diaspora External
MATARKA External

This database provides access to 1,600 scientific and technical journals (mostly) published in Hungary. Allows search in titles, abstracts, and full text search with links to the open access articles. Of the appr. 2 million records about 500,000 articles can be accessed freely online.
MTVA Archívum External

The archives of this media enterprise provides access to appr. 1 million photographs, to radio and TV programs, and also to printed news, such as the various periodicals that informed about radio, and later, TV and radio programs. These papers also printed many articles. The archive also provides digitized daily reports of the Hungarian News Agency (MTI),

Hungarian Newspapers at the Library of Congress

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Databases