Cornell-in-Washington: News Databases

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.

Covers papers worldwide. Dates of coverage varies by newspaper. To identify specific papers and dates of coverage, check the title list linked from the home page. For the U.S., Global newsstream includes The New York Times (1990 - ), The Washington Post (1996- current), The Los Angeles Times (1996 - current) and The Wall Street Journal Online (2010 - current). among many others.

Search tips:
Begin your search with hlead followed by your search terms in parentheses . This may help to improve relevancy as it will 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
Note: To find editorials, add and section (editorial or opinion).
You can also begin by finding and then adding specific sources to search. Under Menu, select All Sources.
Please note: You do not need to register with Nexis Uni to search or download content. Registering with a database will always carry privacy risks.

Historical coverage of a number of major U.S. papers as well as a Chinese Newspapers Collection, The Irish Times, The Irish Times Weekly, and the Times of India. 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.

AllAfrica posts over 1000 stories daily in English and French, as well offering a 900,000-article searchable archive (which includes the archive of Africa News Service dating from 1997). This database aggregates and indexes content from over 125 African news organizations, plus more than 200 other sources.

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. In the Source field, enter BBC Monitoring

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
1946 - 1996.

"Encompassing newspapers in more than 30 languages, GPA will ultimately include thousands of titles from across the globe, all presented in full-image and full-text format optimized for scholarly use."
Go to Title Navigation to see the years covered. The Digital Archive has the longest runs. The Open Access papers represent what is publicly available and coverage ranges from a single paper to a range of months or years.

A searchable archive of articles from: Keesing's contemporary archives, 1931-1986, and: Keesing's record of world events, 1987-2016.
Provides a detailed summary of the world's political, social, and economic events.

This new subscription features Le Monde’s graphic interface and is fully illustrated. You can opt to read in French or English by using the toggle at the top of the screen, but the default view is in French.
Other digital versions of Le Monde include text-only access (2001-present) and the historical archive from 1944-2000.

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.

July 1994 - .
Note: World News Connection was closed down at the end of 2013. No new content after December 31, 2013. The material was obtained from non-U.S. open-source political speeches, television programs, radio broadcasts, newspaper articles, periodicals, and books. The content focuses primarily on military, political, environmental, scientific, technical, and and socioeconomic issues and events. For earlier years, see: FBIS, above.