Elephind is a search engine for digitized versions of

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from various countries, with the goal of making it possible to search all digitized newspapers from a single website. , 3,600,000 newspapers were accessible on the website, many of them not accessible through

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Function

Elephind is a search engine specifically for digitized versions of historical

, allowing the user to freely search across various newspaper archive websites instead of visiting each individual site. When the user clicks on a search result, they are directed to the online archive where it can be accessed. The collection is international, with newspapers from various countries included. , 3,600,000 newspapers were accessible on Elephind. Many of the newspapers are on the

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and cannot be accessed through other search engines such as

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allows users to

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and comment on newspapers. Elephind uses software from Veridian Software, which was spun out of Greenstone.

References

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