The online database "Press clippings online" enables the research of press clippings from the personal dossiers of the press clippings archive at the Herder Institute for East Central European History. The service is continually updated as further material is indexed and made available online. For copyright reasons, however, the database can only be accessed from within the Institute.
In the Herder Institute's press clipping archive, more than 5 million clippings document the history, politics and economy of Eastern Europe from 1916 to the present. For this purpose, the Institute's research library has systematically evaluated regional and national daily and weekly newspapers from the East Central European and German-speaking regions, mainly from 1952 to March 1999. Special holdings supplement the press collection in terms of time and content. Extensive personal archives, local archives and subject archives are also available.
Regional Scope:
East Central Europe: Poland, Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic and Slovakia), the Baltic (in general as well as Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania), Northern East-Prussia (the Kaliningrad Oblast)
The Soviet Union/Russia 
The GDR
Smaller collections relating to Albania, Bulgaria, Finland, Greece, Yugoslavia, the Baltic Sea region in general, Romania, South East Europe, Trieste, Hungary
Thematic Scope: 
Our Personal Archives provide biographical information on key political, economic, scientific and cultural figures (approximately 1.5 million clippings) and can be found, either as findings from indexing projects in the online press clippings collection database (for copyright reasons only within the Institute) and/or in the Institute’s central personal register.
Our Local Archives provide information on towns, cities and regions (including the historic German eastern territories) (approximately half a million clippings).
Our Thematic Archives provide subject-specific information related to each country (approximately 3 million clippings), including information on foreign relations, population, geography, history, internal politics, the church, culture, the military, politics, law, the environment, administration, and economics (see subject classification or the subject classification index).
Smaller collections related to the German question, Germany politics, refugees, Communism, the Orthodox / Eastern Church, eastern research, eastern politics, the Council of Mutual Economic Assistance, and espionage.
Size of the Archive:
15,500 hard-copy document files, 600,000 microfiche images (1991-1999); a subject classification index with 450 key words.
To date, the first 34 folders of the personal archive are digitally accessible via the database "Press clippings online" – a total of approximately 6,500 clippings on 819 persons so far.
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