Delpher

Short description: Dutch online historical text archive

Delpher is a website providing full-text Dutch-language digitized historical newspapers, books, journals and copy sheets for radio news broadcasts. The material is provided by libraries, museums and other heritage institutions[1] and is developed and managed by the Royal Library of the Netherlands. Delpher is freely available and includes as of June 2022 in total over 130 million pages from about 2 million newspapers, 900,000 books and 12 million journal pages that date back to the 15th century.[2]

## Collections

* Books: 900,000 books, from the 17th century onwards
* Journals: 12 million journal articles from 1800–2000[2]
* Newspapers: about 17 million pages from more than 2 million issues from the Netherlands, Dutch East Indies, Netherlands Antilles and Surinam, from 1618 to 2005. This represents about 15% of the total published newspaper output in the Netherlands in this period.[2]
* Typoscripts for radio broadcasts by the Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau (ANP), 1.474.359 million typed sheets from 1937 to 1984.[2]

## Notes

1. ↑ "Delpher". University Library. http://www.ru.nl/library/search/databases/databases/information/information-delpher.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Wat zit er in Delpher?". Delpher. https://www.delpher.nl/over-delpher/wat-zit-er-in-delpher/wat-zit-er-in-delpher.

## External links

* Script error: The function "in_lang" does not exist. Official website
* Script error: The function "in_lang" does not exist. Geschiedenis24 tests Delpher; New search system of great value for research, Jurryt van de Vooren on NPO Geschiedenis, 20-11-2013
* Script error: The function "in_lang" does not exist. Van beta naar beter, M. Napolitano en M. Laan, Informatieprofessional 2015-01 (offline)

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