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All Of National Geographic Coming Online In Searchable Archive

By TechTaffy Desk

[Techtaffy Newsdesk]

National Geographic and Gale, part of Cengage Learning and a publisher of research and reference resources, and are joining forces to provide an online archive of more than 100 years of National Geographic magazine. Available to libraries this spring, National Geographic Magazine Archive, 1888-1994 will include all issues of the magazine in a searchable interface.

Included in the 100,000-plus page archive will be every photograph published in the magazine through 1994. The archive will also include all the detailed maps published by the magazine throughout its history.

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