With more than 50 years' experience in microfilming, NewsBank is a world leader in newspaper preservation and archiving. Serving both large and small publishers, it has worked extensively with both present-day and historical newspapers. NewsBank's production facilities are accredited Kodak Certified Document Conversion Centers, and NewsBank's state-of-the-art equipment and production process remedy problems such as redox and vinegar syndrome. Combining newspaper preservation and archiving with a variety of other services, NewsBank provides a high-quality, yet affordable microfilming solution that enables publishers to drive new revenue opportunities.

Preserving American historical newspapers
NewsBank and its Readex division have filmed and helped preserve some of the United States' rarest and most fragile newspaper content, including many of America's first newspapers, which date back to the mid-1600s. Additionally, NewsBank and Readex have participated in special microfilming projects with the Library of Congress, the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), including the U.S. Newspaper Project.

Market-leading facilities and processes
NewsBank's vault facility is a standalone, climate-controlled, fireproof and monitored environment that ensures the safety and preservation of microfilm. NewsBank's storage complies with ANSI, NEH, AIIM and Kodak standards, and its microfilm service is certified by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). NewsBank can film hardcopies in both loose and bound volumes. Its processing includes brown toning for maximum preservation, and customer copies of the master can be provided in vesicular or silver microfilm.

An effective and inexpensive preservation solution
By choosing microfilm as a preservation solution, publishers ensure their newspapers will be preserved for the long term. Current microform technology will remain constant into the future, enabling publishers to easily transfer images from microfilm to other media at a later date. As a preservation medium, microfilm remains inexpensive and durable, and the benchmarks for creating, processing, storing and reading microfilm are well-established.