Gale’s Premier Platform for 20th Century Studies: Declassified Documents Reference System

Declassified Documents Reference System (DDRS) 95,000+ documents from 1941 forward Includes mainly documents in presidential libraries declassified by FOIA Documents declassified by Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests 450K pages scanned from the microfiche edition (also available from PSM) Searchable fulltext keyed in by hand (we’re changing this to OCR) Bibliographical information and abstracts added by PSM All documents can be searched fulltext The below are NOT included: Documents automatically declassified according to 30-year/25-year rule Published documents that are widely available The “Retrospective Collection: pre-1975” (1,020 fiche) of the microfiche edition

DDRS: How Documents are Included Microfiche ed. Indexing/Abstracting Administrative Departments Transfer docs to libraries SECRET Provide microform Presidential Libraries Scanning/ Run OCR FOIA request Document declassified and provided in copy SECRET Declassified DDRS Online ed. Citizens/Researchers

DDRS: Functionalities Available Search Indexes: Keyword/Subject Full Text Title/Abstract Source Institution Issue Date Date Declassified Document Type Classification Level Sanitization Completeness Number of Pages Sorting Options: Relevancy Date Issued Saving/Marking Documents Mark documents Permanent URL s Print PDF

DDRS: Source Institutions Agency for International Development Department of the Treasury Office of Science and Technology Energy Research and Development Administration Office of Strategic Services Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Office of the Special Assistant for Science and Technology Environmental Protection Agency Atlantic-Pacific Interoceanic Canal Study Commission Federal Bureau of Investigation Office of the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations Federal Civil Defense Administration Atomic Energy Commission Federal Reserve System Operations Coordinating Board Bureau of the Budget Federal Trade Commission President's Board of Consultants on Foreign Intelligence Central Intelligence Agency Foreign Operations Administration Civil Aeronautics Board General Accounting Office President's Commission on Information Activities Abroad Commission on Foreign Economic Policy Interagency Committee on Agricultural Surplus President's Committee to Study the United States Military Congress Interdepartmental Consultative Group Council of Economic Advisers President's Science Advisory Committee Council on Foreign Economic Policy International Development Advisory Board Department of Agriculture Psychological Strategy Board Department of Commerce National Aeronautics and Space Administration Senate Department of Defense Special Committee on US Trade Relations with East Department of Energy National Aeronautics and Space Council Strategic Services Unit Department of Health, Education, and Welfare National Science Foundation Supreme Court Department of Housing and Urban Development National Security Council United Nations North Atlantic Treaty Organization United States Civil Service Commission Department of Justice Nuclear Regulatory Commission Department of Labor Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization United States Information Agency Department of State United States Intelligence Board Department of Transportation Office of Defense Mobilization Warren Commission Department of the Interior Office of Management and Budget White House

Finally!! - Additional Content Total Pages Currently Online: 595,000 (= 95,000 individual documents) Last content update: 2007! Lag in content updating has been awaited by customers Newly Digitized and Loading: 173,000 pages 21,600 documents We are continually acquiring new content, so we can be prepared for future loads

Recently Acquired New Content Addresses the customer issue: “More documents, now!” We are adding documents released to the DDRS microfiche publication between 2007 and 2012 Includes documents from: Presidential libraries Executive Departments National Security Council Joint Chiefs of Staff FBI Department of Defense Many other source libraries

We will turn-off this button What is being done…. Previously, DDRS included keyed text (not OCR text) along with the document images. Today, we are now moving to an OCR model and away from a time-restrictive and costly keyed-text model. TWO DELIVERABLES: Abundant Content Load Turn off button in product (see illustration) so the “view text” option is no longer available to end-users after the content load is completed We will turn-off this button

View recently-released documents on a variety of topics The new DDRS content includes all 20 FBI “interviews” of Saddam Hussein, along with documents on the search for Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction

View recently-released documents on a variety of topics Documents on the Global War on Terrorism extend from the 1970s to the 21st century, culled from a variety of agencies.

More recently-released documents… The addition of new content provides historical documents on the evolution of the Brown Berets and the militant Chicano movement, as well as other militant groups in the 1960s and 1970s.

More recently-released documents… “…His brain has not only been washed, as they say... It has been dry cleaned…“

More recently-released documents… There are newly-released documents that provide unique revelations on the conduct of the Vietnam War.

More recently-released documents… Declassified documents highlight the extent of Hoover’s paranoia with the Communist infiltration of the motion picture industry.

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