Digital libraries: Unique new resource offers access to translated materials

A digital edition of Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) Reports for 1957-1994 will be released by Readex, a division of NewsBank, a  major publisher of news, historical information, and documents to consumers, libraries, educational institutions, and research institutes around the world in late summer 2011.

This unique new resource — fully searchable for the first time — will feature English translations of foreign-language monographs, reports, serials, journal articles, newspaper articles, and radio and television broadcasts from regions throughout the world. JPRS contains a wealth of hard-to-find scientific, technical, and social science materials translated from many languages.

In fact, few libraries or institutions outside of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Library of Congress hold a complete microform edition.