Monitor ISSUE 30
OUTSIDE MONITORING
Digitising the Summary of World Broadcasts In 2022, BBC Monitoring and Readex entered into an agreement to digitise BBC Monitoring’s Summary of World Broadcasts (SWB) archive from 1939 to 2001. By digitising this important historical archive, Readex is making previously inaccessible content available for the first time to scholars around the world, Readex’s Jim Draper writes. The entirety of SWB—nearly three million pages—is being published on a Readex research platform developed for academic users and enhanced with new tools to enable content discovery. When the digitisation is completed (January 2024), more than 70,000 multi-page SWB reports will be accessible.
Readex’s Summary of World Broadcasts product
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