Cornell-in-Washington: News Databases

Includes access to full text current and general news, selected TV and radio news transcripts.
Use the down arrow to Search by Content Type
Connect search words and phrases with AND, e.g. Iraq AND invasion
From the Advanced Search, limit by date to narrow your search results
Scroll down to Apply selected limits to your search.
Limit your search terms to the headline and lead paragraph HLEAD(search terms)
Or by Section, e.g. Section(Editorial) AND your search terms
For specific sources, use the link across the top to Browse or Find sources. Click the "i" next to each source to determine dates covered

Full-text online service for international news and business information
From the Factiva home page navigation bar, open Search.
Note: the home page opens to the day's news from the Wall Street Journal, among others (with a drop-down menu to dates over the past week). Use the Search link from the homepage navigation bar to search all of the sources in Factiva.

Round-the-clock monitoring of TV, radio, press, internet and news agencies from around the world from primarily open media sources.
Ability to provide "the words as spoken" -- accurate and impartial translations of what leading figures have said
Access via the Factiva database
From the Factiva home page navigation bar, open Search.
Enter BBC Monitoring for Source.

Created by the U.S. intelligence community to benefit policy makers and analysts
From thousands of monitored broadcasts and publications. Translated into English from more than 50 languages
From 1941-1996.

In-depth, full-text information, from Russia and the former Soviet Union. Resources include newspapers, newswires, popular and scholarly periodicals, and government documents.

Full-text information and perspectives from over 600 U.S. and over 700 international sources. Dates covered vary by newspaper. Does not include some of the larger papers, such as The New York Times, Wall Street Journal or Washington Post. See Factiva and Nexis Uni, below.

Round-the-clock monitoring of TV, radio, press, internet and news agencies from around the world from primarily open media sources.
Ability to provide "the words as spoken" -- accurate and impartial translations of what leading figures have said.
Access via the Factiva database
From the Factiva home page navigation bar, open Search.
Enter BBC Monitoring for Source.

In-depth, full-text information, from Russia and the former Soviet Union. Resources include newspapers, newswires, popular and scholarly periodicals, and government documents.

Full-text online service for international news and business information
From the Factiva home page navigation bar, open Search.
Note: the home page opens to the day's news from the Wall Street Journal, among others (with a drop-down menu to dates over the past week). Use the Search link from the homepage navigation bar to search all of the sources in Factiva.

Created by the U.S. intelligence community to benefit policy makers and analysts
From thousands of monitored broadcasts and publications. Translated into English from more than 50 languages
From 1941-1996.

A searchable archive of articles from: Keesing's contemporary archives, 1931-1986, and: Keesing's record of world events, 1987-. Provides a detailed summary of the world's political, social, and economic events.
The editors gather, rewrite and fact check reporting on events worldwide. There is usually a nine- to twelve-month lag between the present and the events they cover.

Search tips:
Enter your search terms with hlead(your search terms) to find your search terms in the headline or lead paragraph.
Example: hlead(medicaid expansion)
To find longer articles add and length >1000 (1000, 1500, etc.).
Example: hlead(medicaid expansion) and length>1000
From the list of results,
Narrow By ...
Publication Type -- Newspapers
Next, Narrow By -- Source (to select specific newspapers).
To find editorials, add and section(editorial or opinion).

For best results, select the Advanced Search. Scroll down to choose Document types.
If you wish, use the date limits on the right to restrict your results to a particular date range.

Full-text and full-image articles from the Times of London for the years 1785-2006. It is a digital reproduction, cover to cover, of the paper in PDF files.