Catholic News Archive
About
The Catholic News Archive is a free, fully searchable digital archive of Catholic newspapers. With participation and support from the Association of Catholic Diocesan Archivists (ACDA) and the Catholic Library Association (CLA), Atla’s CRRA program is taking the lead in digitizing historical Catholic newspapers.
The archive launched in 2016 as a project of the Catholic Research Resources Alliance (now the CRRA Program at Atla), developed in partnership with newspapers, diocesan archives, and financial supporters to meet the need for online access and digital preservation of Catholic newspapers. Since then, the Catholic News Archive has grown steadily with content from 1831-2024, with more than 800,000 annual page views. It has become a news source regularly consulted by journalists, Church leaders, researchers, and readers worldwide.
Atla’s CRRA program also provides a subscription News Hosting Service that provides a secure, professional-grade, reliable, and search-engine-friendly solution for Catholic publications seeking to create or maintain online access.
Access
Access the Catholic News Archive.
Content and Scope
The Catholic News Archive contains thousands of newspaper pages from different cities that spans over multiple decades. The collection is fully text searchable, including the newspapers’ editorials, pictures, and advertisements.
Partnerships
News Hosting Service
The Catholic News Archive News Hosting Service provides hosting of both current and historical issues for Catholic media. The News Hosting Service provides a secure, professional-grade, reliable, and search-engine-friendly solution for Catholic publications seeking to create or maintain online access via a subscription model.
Benefits of News Hosting Service
- Files are reviewed by digital content experts and optimized for search engines, following Google’s industry-setting standards.
- Content is posted as part the existing publishing process.
- Professional guidance to ensure the publishing process is in compliance with professional standards for digital archiving.
- Content can be hosted both in the Catholic News Archive and on your platforms, increasing traffic to your digital channels.
- Unlimited storage.
- Inclusion in a network of fifty leading Catholic academic libraries, the Catholic News Service, and diocesan and religious order archives, whose mission is to provide enduring global access to Catholic content.
Subscription Pricing for News Hosting Service
Annual Publishing Frequency | 1-Year Service Term Pricing |
1-15 issues annually | $599 |
16 or more issues annually | $999 |
One-time Fees for Previous Issues via News Hosting Service
- Digital-born pdfs: One-time fee of $100 per year, unlimited issues.
- Non-native issues: For content which is in other media (such as microfilm or paper), or scanned PDFs, a custom quote will ensure metadata and other information is embedded to meet archival standards. Please email crra@atla.com for more information.
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