The ProQuest Historical Newspapers project will encompass newspapers with deep historical value for researchers in various fields, including newspapers that may have ceased publication. The project will be ongoing and will cover hundreds of newspapers in the coming years, including national, regional, and local newspapers, beginning with U.S. papers, and will eventually include newspapers from around the world. The Washington Post is the fourth prestigious U.S. newspaper to join this project, with work already begun on The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Christian Science Monitor. The company has already digitized The London Times from 1785 to 1870 (known as Palmer's Index to the Times). Bell & Howell Information and Learning (formerly UMI) is a world leader in collecting, organizing, and distributing information worldwide to researchers, faculty, and students in libraries and schools. Known widely for its strength in business and economics, general-reference, humanities, social sciences, and STM content, the company develops premium databases comprising periodicals, newspapers, dissertations, out-of-print books, and other scholarly information from more than 8,500 publishers worldwide. Users access the information through ProQuest(R), the company's Web-based online information system, Chadwyck-Healey(R) electronic and microform resources, and UMI(R) microform and print reference products. For more information about Bell & Howell Information and Learning, visit www.infolearning.com ....

More Than 120 Years of the The Washington Post to Be Digitized as Part of Bell Howell's Historical Newspaper Project