Readex
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Readex has published several collections of primary source research materials, first as Readex Microprint Corporation and since 1983 as a division of NewsBank.
In the early 1940s, publishing legend Albert Boni, founder of the Modern Library, formed Readex in Chester, Vermont. In 1955, the American Antiquarian Society invited Readex to publish in microprint Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800. This partnership led to the publication of Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819 and Early American Newspapers, Series 1, 1690-1876. All of these collections are now available in fully searchable digital editions as part of the Web-based Archive of Americana, which also includes American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I, 1760-1900 and other collections.
Additional partnerships with the Library of Congress, Dartmouth College Library, University of Vermont Libraries, and the U.S. Senate Library have led to Readex's digital publication of definitive editions of the American State Papers and the US Congressional Serial Set.
In September 2006, Readex launched a new interface for its Web-based America's Historical Newspapers collection, which includes Early American Newspapers, Series 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. Part of the Archive of Americana, America's Historical Newspapers offers fully searchable issues from more than 1,300 American newspapers published in all 50 present states between 1690 and 1922.
