What is ClipShare?

ClipShare is a unique and invaluable desktop research tool for newspaper journalists and librarians. ClipShare gives you the ability for the first time ever to search current and archived articles from the London national, Scottish and regional newspapers in the original context.

With ClipShare you simply add the relevant details for the search you are looking for; subject, key word, a specific paper between a date range and get back all the stories that are found. The articles are made available as text or a PDF of the article or whole page as it was in the paper originally.

There are other tools that enable you to make historical and current searches of newspapers but none that give you added value of the context that seeing the original PDF does. Imagine all the weight that is given to a story through the graphics, pictures, photos that are displayed in the layout of the article. Now you can see it all through ClipShare.

Free trials to ClipShare are available for a limited time only. Please contact us for further information

Users can log in via www.nla-clipshare.com

NLA eClips

In March 2006 the NLA launched a central digital database of newspaper articles aimed at the Press Cuttings and Media Monitoring market. Newspaper content is taken directly from newspaper production systems and processed to create article level PDFs, article level text files and individual "thumbnail" JPGs to show the aritcle in context. Images are indexed on a central host system using XML technology allowing for rapid retrieval, formatted as text or images.

The NLA sees this as a major step forward in the online delivery of newspaper content benefiting press cuttings agencies and publishers alike. The database currently provides content from the national newspapers as well as key regional and Scottish national content. Visit the NLA eClips blog at http://blog.nla-eclips.com/

The NLA

The Newspaper Licensing Agency was established by the UK national newspapers in 1996 to manage newspaper copyright collection. The NLA works on behalf of the UK's newspapers and licenses organisations to make paper and digital copies of newspaper content. The NLA currently licenses over 150,000 businesses and organisations ranging from large government bodies, PLCs, and limited companies to partnerships and public relations agencies. For further details please visit the NLA website at www.nla.co.uk