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

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

4 DDRS: Functionalities Available Search Indexes: Keyword/Subject Full Text Title/Abstract Source Institution Issue Date Date Declassified Document Type Source Institution 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 5 Agency for International Development Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Atlantic-Pacific Interoceanic Canal Study Commission Atomic Energy Commission Bureau of the Budget Central Intelligence Agency Civil Aeronautics Board Commission on Foreign Economic Policy Congress Council of Economic Advisers Council on Foreign Economic Policy Department of Agriculture Department of Commerce Department of Defense Department of Energy Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Department of Housing and Urban Development Department of Justice Department of Labor Department of State Department of Transportation Department of the Interior Department of the Treasury Energy Research and Development Administration Environmental Protection Agency Federal Bureau of Investigation Federal Civil Defense Administration Federal Reserve System Federal Trade Commission Foreign Operations Administration General Accounting Office Interagency Committee on Agricultural Surplus Interdepartmental Consultative Group International Development Advisory Board National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Aeronautics and Space Council National Science Foundation National Security Council North Atlantic Treaty Organization Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization Office of Defense Mobilization Office of Management and Budget Office of Science and Technology Office of Strategic Services Office of the Special Assistant for Science and Technology Office of the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations Operations Coordinating Board President's Board of Consultants on Foreign Intelligence President's Commission on Information Activities Abroad President's Committee to Study the United States Military President's Science Advisory Committee Psychological Strategy Board Senate Special Committee on US Trade Relations with East Strategic Services Unit Supreme Court United Nations United States Civil Service Commission United States Information Agency United States Intelligence Board Warren Commission White House

6 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

7 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

8 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: 1. Abundant Content Load 2. 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

9 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

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

11 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.

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

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

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

15 QUESTIONS? THANK YOU