More than 160 years of articles from The Economist are set to become available online with the launch of “The Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003.”

The archive will contain more than 600,000 pages of the weekly magazine’s reporting. Preview trials of the archive have just been made available and the full archive will be available via paid subscription in December. (The magazine’s website, Economist.com offers readers free access to content under one year old.)

“The Economist Historical Archive is more than a database – it is a remarkable record of the most significant world events over the past 160 years through the unbiased, probing eyes of The Economist,” said John Micklethwait, the magazine’s editor-in-chief.

In fact, history has shown that The Economist isn’t quite as authoritative, accurate and unbiased as it likes to think it is, but the archive is nevertheless welcome news for researchers around the world.