Newspaper Databases
- Nexis Uni (formerly, Lexis Nexis Academic)Dates of coverage vary by news source. Back to 1980.
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. - Proquest Historical NewspapersSelect the Advanced Search. Scroll down to choose Document types.
If you wish, use the date limits to restrict your results to a particular date range. - FactivaFull-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.
Includes BBC Monitoring:
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.
From the Factiva home page navigation bar, open Search.
Enter BBC Monitoring for Source.
- 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.
- 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. - 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.
- Keesings World News ArchiveNot currently updated.
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. - Times of London Digital ArchiveFull-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.
- World News ConnectionJuly 1994 - .
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, below.