The Yale Daily News Historical Archive
- Material to be digitized: 123 years of the Yale Daily News from 1878 through
2000. In phase one of the project, 21 selected years of publication have been digitized,
totaling nearly 25,000 pages: January 1878 – June 1879 (the first year of publication),
September 1913 – June 1919 (World War I), September 1940 – June 1948 (World War
II, funded by the Yale Class of 1945W), January 1967 – May 1970 (the radical ‘60s),
and September 1978 – May 1981 (the early years of the Giamatti administration).
The text of digitized material is fully indexed and keyword searchable.
- Collections: The Yale Daily News, the undergraduate-run daily newspaper
of Yale University
- Project Duration: March 2006 – May 2008 for Phase I and ongoing for the
remainder of the archive
- Partners: YUL, The Oldest College Daily Foundation, the Yale Daily News
Publishing Company
- Contact: dpip@yale.edu
- URL: http://images.library.yale.edu/ydn/
- Disclaimer
Project Summary
The
Yale Daily News Historical Archive provides access to digitized versions
of printed issues of the Yale Daily News, the student newspaper of Yale University.
The full text of these issues is indexed and searchable through the web interface.
The Yale Daily News, founded on January 28, 1878, is the oldest college daily newspaper
published in the United States. The historical archive begins in 1878 and is not
yet comprehensive: issues will continue to be added up to January 2001, when the
Yale Daily News Current Online Issue Archive begins.
Giving Opportunities
The Library is seeking funds to continue digitizing all issues of the paper before
2001. If you would like to sponsor the digitization of a year or years of the Yale
Daily News, please contact the
Library's Development Office.
Display, Navigation, and Searching
When a Yale Daily News issue is digitized, an image of each page is made. These
images are "cleaned up" to improve readability on the screen and to improve the
quality of printing. Yellowing or other discoloration is removed. Each page of an
issue may be viewed in its entirety. This project makes use of "zoning" technology
when the material is scanned, so that articles that display on different pages are
joined together. When a reader selects an article that starts on page 1 and finishes
on page 6, that complete article will display in its entirety in a new window.
In addition to the image of each page, optical character recognition is done on
each page of the issue. As a result, along with browsing by year, words and phrases
may be searched across the entire collection, and then also within a particular
issue.
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