ClipShare: A vital resource for publishers and journalists

NLA media access is best known for licensing newspaper and magazine content to thousands of communications and PR professionals and supplying published content to media monitoring agencies through the eClips database service.   But the investment that national newspaper publishers have made in eClips also enables us to offer a range of data driven services to publishers themselves, including a cutting edge resource called ClipShare.

With over 40 million print articles from over 130 publications dating back to 2006,  ClipShare offers journalists at subscribing publishers access to news pieces in-page (viewable as they would appear on a printed newspaper spread).  The database is accessed by thousands of journalists researching stories every week and is a vital tool for publishers in keeping an organised, easily accessible record of the content they produce every year. 

ClipShare is having a major upgrade in 2014:

• In the spring, a new search engine will reduce search times, ensuring sub-second results even for complex queries
• In the autumn, the archive will include web as well as print-edition content
• The print archive will expand further, with several magazine titles joining the database during the course of 2014
• And finally, we are planning to extend the database ‘back in time’, by loading a text archive of national newspapers from 2001 to 2006

All of this adds up to a marvellous resource for the busy journalist working to a deadline.

News UK, Trinity Mirror, Associated Newspapers, Northern & Shell, Telegraph, Independent, Guardian, Johnston Press, Newsquest and FT journalists currently have access to ClipShare, but other publishers are expected to join before the year is out.

If you are a publisher or journalist and would like to know more about how to subscribe please contact our Publisher services Executive, Jenny Crewe jcrewe@nla.co.uk  for more information.