Newspaper databases
- Access World newsIncludes BBC Selected News Articles from each country and some individual newspapers.To search papers from individual countries, select
Sources: A to Z:
Use the pull-down menu to select "location"
Enter the country name.
Select papers to search. - AllAfrica.comAllAfrica 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.
- BBC MonitoringRound-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
Note: Our subscription to the Factiva database is limited to 10 simultaneous users. - Eastview Universal DatabasesIn-depth, full-text information, from Russia and the former Soviet Union. Resources include newspapers, newswires, popular and scholarly periodicals, and government documents.
- FactivaFull-text online service for international news and business information. 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.
Please note: Our subscription is limited to 10 simultaneous users. In addition, the subscription does not include all of the content available in Factiva. In some cases, may see a message that says the library does not have access to a specific newspaper. - Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS)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. - Global Press Archive"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."
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. Go to Title Navigation to see the years covered for each newspaper.. - Le MondeThis 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. - Nexis Uni: News SourcesSelect "News" from the top banner.
Next, select a country of interest to see a list of news sources available.
Check under the "i" to get more information on the news source, including years covered. - Proquest Historical NewspapersEnter a keyword or phrase. From the list of results, use the search filters on the left to limit by date, document type, publication title, etc.
You can also scroll through the list of papers and search specific news sources directly. - Times of London Digital ArchiveFull-text and full-image articles from the Times of London for the years 1785-2019 (as of today's day). It is a digital reproduction, cover to cover, of the paper in PDF files.
- World News ConnectionJuly 1994 - .
Note: World News Connection was closed down at the end of 2013. No new content after December 31, 2013. The material consists of mostly brief accounts of events 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, below.
Historical news coverage
We also have historical coverage from a few of the largest newspapers in the world. Proquest Historical Newspapers includes historical coverage of Le Monde, 1944-2000 (France), the Times of India 1861-2010 with (some years missing), and a Chinese Newspapers Collection, 1832-1953. From another vendor, we have the Times of London Digital Archive, 1785-2006 and the Sunday Times Digital Archive, 1822-2006.
Unfortunately, for many nations of the world, historical coverage, reaching beyond the last decade or so, is often not available directly from the local news sources. We do have BBC Monitoring (back to 1999) and World News Connection and Foreign Broadcast Information Service to help cover the historical news worldwide. You’ll find these databases listed above.