Press Clippings
JNU Library has a huge archive of Press Clippings since last four decades of Indian Newspapers available in INTRANET. Users can find news items on Indian Politics, Social Problems, Education, Law & Criminalization and news about JNU etc. in our Database. Scanned copy of the hard copy and softcopy of the Newspapers are being uploaded into VTLS Library Management Software for storage and retrieval. This is the unique indigenous database of the JNU Library.
The Press Clippings Service of the JNU Library is one of the widely used service among the scholars. The library has been providing the press clippings services to academic community right from its inception in Seventies. The newspaper articles are selected in the area of Social sciences, International relations, Humanities, and news about JNU. In the recent past the library has digitised approximately 8 lacs newspaper articles pulled out from over 30 English newspapers from India and abroad. After digitization of the collection the usage has multiplied. Presently, the newspaper articles are pulled out from 21 national & international newspapers.Apart from this, the JNU Library also subscribed " PressDisplay " an online newspaper database to complement the press clippings database. This database covers 2000 newspapers from 100 countries in 60 languages.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Guardian (1821-2003) and The Observer (1791-2003)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Wall Street Journal (1889-1996)
Rare collection of old Urdu newspaper Al-Islah
For any query regarding Newspaper Clippings, please contact:
Asst. Librarian
Ph:011-26704543