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Use of Data
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This week Newsjunkie launches the Guide to Public Archives II, a free, searchable directory of over 1,500 knowledge repositories—archives, libraries, and museums that hold the direct record of human history.
Fellow Newsjunkie,
The Guide to Public Archives II arrives at a moment of deliberate erasure. Federal agencies are removing datasets. Government websites are publishing propaganda and misinformation. Historical records are being whitewashed. Archivists and journalists need sources beyond the managed narrative.
Archives are where civilization keeps its receipts. Ancient census records. Colonial-era shipping logs. Field recordings of folk music played once in a village and never again. Scientific observations that took lifetimes to compile.
They are irreplaceable, and for most researchers, a challenge to navigate.
That changes today.
The Guide to Public Archives II is a fully revised and expanded directory of more than 1,500 artifact and document repositories. From the Library of Congress and the Vatican Apostolic Archive to the Timorese Resistance Archive and India's Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology—every entry has been significantly expanded, with richer descriptions, clearer access guidelines, and up-to-date contact points.
It is free. No paywall. No ads.
Check it out.
—Gordon
Gordon J. Whiting, publisher