In principle, you can use any browser. However, some Firefox versions cause errors when opening newspaper issues. If this is the case for you, we recommend using the German Newspaper Portal with the Chrome or Edge browsers.

The Atlas of Digitised Newspapers and Metadata provides further information, e.g. on the background of the German Newspaper Portal, on the composition and quality of the content as well as on the backend architecture and metadata schema. The DFG proposals and thus the work programme for the first and second development phases are available here.

The newspaper portal includes newspapers published between 1933 and 1945, in the years of National Socialist rule, and newspapers which were issued by National Socialist party and state organisations. Making these newspapers accessible serves purposes of civic education, of communicating knowledge as well as the transparent reappraisal of the NS dictatorship.

The German Newspaper Portal expressly distances itself from all racist, antisemitic and other discriminatory content as well as from propagandistic presentations and those glorifying violence contained in these newspapers. Before you open a newspaper issue which was published between 1933 and 1945 and/or which was issued by a Nationalist Socialist party and state organisation, a pop-up window will appear which points out these connections and which must be actively confirmed by you before the newspaper issue will be shown. For further contextualisation, the German Digital Library has created a virtual exhibition on the topic “Presse in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus” (“The Press during the National Socialist Era“) (available in German only).

Currently, only libraries or institutions that can provide their metadata in METS/MODS format can deliver holdings to the German Newspaper Portal. More detailed information and contact details can be found here (information available in German only). We are currently examining how other institutions, e.g. archives and museums, can also participate in the German Newspaper Portal with their newspaper holdings.

The German Union Catalogue of Serials (ZDB) lists newspapers and journals that can be found in German and Austrian libraries and archives. It assigns identifiers (ZDB IDs) that make each newspaper or journal uniquely and permanently identifiable. The German Newspaper Portal uses these identifiers to uniquely identify the newspapers. In addition, further metadata of a newspaper, such as publication history and publication frequency, are taken from the ZDB via the ZDB ID and displayed in the newspaper portal.

If a newspaper listed in the ZDB is available in the German Newspaper Portal, there is also a link from the corresponding ZDB entry to the associated newspaper portal holdings.

Once you have created a user account, you can save newspaper pages in one or more favourites lists and add descriptions. You can save 100 newspaper pages per favourites list. Favourites lists can be shared and downloaded. Favourites lists that you have saved in the German Newspaper Portal cannot be accessed via the German Digital Library and vice versa.

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Creating a user account is free, all you need is a valid e-mail address. To create an account, please click on the person icon in the header and on ‘Create user account’ in the dialogue box that opens. The user account is valid for both the German Newspaper Portal and the German Digital Library. If you already have an account with the German Digital Library, you can also use it to log in to the newspaper portal.

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With a user account, you can create, describe and download favourite lists.

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Yes, users can access images, full texts and metadata via an API (Application Programming Interface). The API of the German Digital Library is documented with an OpenAPI specification.

You can find an interactive representation here. If you open the tab for /search/index/{indexname}/{requesthandler}, you will see the two Solr search indices „newspaper“ and „newspaper-issues“. The „newspaper“ search index provides information on the newspapers in the newspaper portal, while the „newspaper-issues“ search index provides information on the issues available in the newspaper portal. You can run queries directly on this website and view the results. The Solr schemas for the field names of the search indices are also linked in the API documentation. The small library ddbapi which is available on PyPI (source code) provides a wrapper for using the API with the programming language Python.

 

All newspaper issues found in the Deutsches Zeitungsportal are provided with a licence or a legal status information, which stipulate how users may use the newspaper issues. For individual newspaper pages the same licences or legal status information apply as for the complete newspaper issues.

Individual pages, individual issues and the related full texts can be downloaded via the download function – it is our data partners that decide which of these download options are available.