Latin American Newspapers provides more than 35 fully searchable newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, and elsewhere. Latin American Newspapers offers unprecedented coverage of the people, issues, and events that shaped this vital region between 1805 and 1922.

LAN is the first collection of the World Newspaper Archive, a partnership between the Center for Research Libraries community and Readex, a division of NewsBank, to systematically create an extensive Web-based collection of international newspapers. CRL will ensure the long-term availability of this news content for the CRL community.

Current titles and timetable for future releases

These examples of titles included in the Latin American Newspapers collection of the World Newspaper Archive illustrate the breadth and depth of this groundbreaking collection.

• El Mercurio [1914–22] - An important Spanish-language paper published in Santiago, often considered Chile's newspaper of record.
• O Estado de São Paulo [1876–1922] - This title (published as A Provincia de São Paulo until 1889) traces Brazil’s history from an empire to a republic, and stands as one of Brazil’s premiere newspapers.
• La Prensa (Buenos Aires, Argentina) [1869–1922] - This title, founded in 1869 by Dr. Jose Clemente Paz, was considered among the most significant newspapers in the world by the turn of the century.
• Mexican Herald [1895–1915] - An English-language title bringing international and local news to the American expatriate community in Mexico.

Please refer to the Readex site for a complete list of titles.

As of February 2010 Latin American Newspapers contained more than one million pages of content. New titles and issues are released on a rolling basis at a rate of nearly 100,000 pages per month. The collection will contain around 1.3 million pages by the end of the project.

Access and Pricing

Latin American Newspapers—a World Newspaper Archive collection—is available for CRL members.  To access the collection, please visit your library’s homepage for Readex products and click on World Newspaper Archive or visit the page directly:

WNA Latin American Newspaper Collection

CRL member access

As of July 15, 2009, access to the Latin American Newspapers module was enabled for CRL libraries who elected to invest in the ongoing digitization of resources.

The access fees are scaled to each participant’s library materials expenditures. Payment schedules are designed to minimize the impact on library acquisition budgets. Please see the main WNA page for more information on Access and Pricing.

CRL will continue to maintain the microfilm copies of the WNA papers as well, and will make them available to its community as a regular benefit of CRL membership.

Please contact wna [at] crl [dot] edu for additional information on access for your institution.

Technical support

Access is provided to CRL members through IP authentication. In the event of difficulties viewing the resources, assistance will be provided by Readex Customer Service and Technical Support Group: CustService [at] newsbank [dot] com

For libraries using proxy servers such as EZ Proxy for remote access, a system configuration may be required to enable proper viewing of the collection. Network administrators should visit the following site for information on this configuration: www.usefulutilities.com/support/db/newsbank.html

Feedback

CRL welcomes thoughts and comments on this release at wna [at] crl [dot] edu.