Siberian newspapers of the Russian Empire and USSR periods : issues of conservation, digitization, and scientific use

• Published in: Sibirica
• Main Author: Shevtsov, Vyacheslav V.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: сибирские газеты; оцифровка; научные библиотеки; Сибирь; Sibirica; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3167/sib.2016.150105; https://openrepository.ru/article?id=290921

This report reflects the work that leading academic libraries in Siberia (in Tomsk, Irkutsk, and Krasnoyarsk) have been conducting over the past ten years on digitization of Siberian newspapers published between 1857 and 1991. These newspapers are valuable and often unique sources for the history, ethnography, economy, and everyday life of the Siberian people. Creating a comprehensive and common free-access database of Siberian newspapers promotes their preservation for current and future researchers, introduces them to scientific use. The report contains brief data on already digitized newspapers and on electronic sources where these newspapers can be found. The report shows the challenges, perspectives, and achievements of digitization, as well as possible ways of systematization, search for information and analysis of a large set of various newspaper texts.