The Institut für Zeitungsforschung (The Institut für Zeitungsforschung), located in the city of Dortmund in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany), is a scientific center devoted to newspaper research. German language). In its newspaper library, newspapers and magazines are collected, both historical - from the 17th century - and contemporary. The Institute also has a special section in which political (pamphlets), posters or banners and cartoons are archived.
HistoryThe roots of the Institut für Zeitungsforschung were born in 1907 when the first director of the Dortmund Municipal Library - Erich Schulz - began collecting newspapers and magazines. In 1926 the Dortmund Municipal Library together with the Niederrheinisch-Westfälischen Zeitungsverleger-Verein (Free translation: Union of newspaper editors of the Niederrhein-Westfalen) established the Westfälisch-Niederrheinisches Institut für Zeitungsforschung. At present (2006) is an independent Institute attached to the Municipal Library or the City Hall of Dortmund and the Library of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. Content
The library of the Institute has about 35,700 volumes of magazines of all kinds, with just over 23,000 volumes of newspapers (daily, weekly, monthly) and about 109,000 rolls of newspapers, magazines, brochures, etc. p>
In the Institut für Zeitungsforschung there is also a specialized library with literature on journalism; 60,600 monographs and a profuse compilation of journals - both German and foreign - specialize in the field of journalism.
The institute itself publishes a specialized magazine: Dortmunder Beiträge zur Zeitungsforschung (Free Translation: Dortmund Contributions to Newspaper Research), it also has different central points of study, for example the investigation of the press system during Germany Nazi and the "Literature in the Exile".
In general, the use and use of the different services of the Institute are not free; they are subject to different rates.
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