# Delpher

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**Delpher** is a website providing full-text [Dutch-language](/source/Dutch_language) digitized historical newspapers, books, journals and copy sheets for radio news broadcasts. The material is provided by libraries, museums and other heritage institutions[1] and is developed and managed by the [Royal Library of the Netherlands](/source/Royal_Library_of_the_Netherlands). Delpher is freely available and includes as of June 2022 in total over 130 million pages from about 2 million newspapers, 900,000 books and 12 million journal pages that date back to the 15th century.[2]

## Collections

- *Books:* 900,000 books, from the 17th century onwards
- *Journals:* 12 million journal articles from 1800 to 2000[2]
- *Newspapers:* about 17 million pages from more than 2 million issues from the Netherlands, [Dutch East Indies](/source/Dutch_East_Indies), [Netherlands Antilles](/source/Netherlands_Antilles) and Surinam, from 1618 to 2005. This represents about 15% of the total published newspaper output in the Netherlands in this period.[2]
- *Typoscripts* for radio broadcasts by the [Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau](/source/Algemeen_Nederlands_Persbureau) (ANP), 1.474.359 million typed sheets from 1937 to 1984.[2]

## Notes

1. ["Delpher"](http://www.ru.nl/library/search/databases/databases/information/information-delpher). *University Library*. Retrieved July 17, 2015.

1. ["Wat zit er in Delpher?"](https://www.delpher.nl/over-delpher/wat-zit-er-in-delpher/wat-zit-er-in-delpher). *Delpher*. Retrieved 21 April 2022.

## External links

- (in Dutch) [Official website](https://www.delpher.nl)

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