10/01/2006

The Greek National Library has developed a particularly significant digital collection entitled "e-fimeris" which is available on the Library's website. The collection consists of 220,006 pages of Greek newspapers provided by the Greek National Library. All pages are retrievable free of charge on the Internet and searchable by newspaper title and publication date.

It is worth noting that, all 220,006 pages can be searched for content after the use of optical character recognition (OCR) programs.

More specifically, the newspapers available, as part of the digital collection, are the following:

ELEFTHERIA (1944 - 1967; 43,832 digitised pages)
EMPROS (1896 - 1969; 77,793 digitised pages)
RIZOPASTIS (1917 - 1983; 54,203 digitised pages)
SCRIP (1893 - 1911; 19,006 digitised pages)
TACHIDROMOS (of Egypt) (1958 - 1977; 25,172 digitised pages)

For the newspaper ELEFTHERIA, the user has the option of searching the articles (total of 944,361 articles), whereas for the newspaper RIZOSPASTIS, 33,851 articles have been indexed and can be retrieved by searching the title of the article or the author. The newspaper articles are provided in PDF format.

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