Primary International Relations News Sources

Center for Research Libraries
Also Known as: CRL CAMP LAMP MEMP SAMP
The Penn Library participates in CRL's area studies programs. A consortium of North American universities, colleges, and independent research libraries. The consortium acquires and preserves tradition...   [more]
Supplemental URLs
    CRL Catalog
    CRL Quick Search Page / General Overview
    CRL Area Studies Programs - CAMP, LAMP, MEMP, SAMP
    CRL Catalog: Newspapers search
    South Asia Microform Project - SAMP

FBIS: Foreign Broadcast Information Service Electronic Index (1975-1996)
Contemporary coverage of political, economic, scientific, and cultural issues and events worldwide, relying upon international and local language news sources. The FBIS Electronic Index provides acces...   [more]

Important International Relations News Sources

19th Century British Library Newspapers Parts 1 & 2
- from Gale Primary Sources - Newspapers
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BBC Monitoring: International Reports (via LexisNexis Academic)
Fulltext searchable coverage, 1979-present...   [more]

China Digital Times
Covers China's social and political transition and its emerging role in the world. Aggregates news and analysis, provides independent reporting and translated items from Chinese cyberspace....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Emerging Markets: News, Analysis and Opinion
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Unrestricted Access

Factiva
Also Known as: Dow Jones Factiva, Factiva Dow Jones
Provides access to sources of national and international news, business and general information. News sources include newspapers, magazines, media transcripts, wire services, pictures and web sites. I...   [more]
Holdings: Dates vary. Most publications begin in the late 1980's or early 1990's
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    home page
    
    
    

Financial Times Archive 1888 - 2021
Also Known as: Financial Times Historical Archive
- from Gale Primary Sources - Newspapers
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Holdings: 1888 - 2021
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Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports 1941 - 1996
Also Known as: FBIS
Coverage of Africa, Asia, China, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle/Near East....   [more]

Foreign Press Centers, U.S. Department of State
Fulltext Foreign Press Briefings and federal government reports (including Congressional Research Service reports) collected to assist foreign-based journalists reporting on American society, politics...   [more]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    CRS Reports and Issue Briefs

IRINnews.org
Also Known as: Integrated Regional Information Networks
UN-sponsored news service focusing on regions and countries worldwide undergoing humanitarian emergencies or crises....   [more]
Holdings: 1998-present
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    IRIN Film and TV

Keesing's World News Archive
Also Known as: Keesing's Contemporary Archives, Keesing's Record of World Events
Provides analysis and synthesis of daily news from around the world in the form of monthly series articles. "These [articles] constitute a concise, accurate and unbiased account of important developme...   [more]
Holdings: 1987-
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Le Monde diplomatique
- from publisher website
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Holdings: 1954-
Supplemental URLs
    English edition
    
    
    
    

MEED: Middle East Economic Digest
- from publisher website
[more]
Holdings: 2003-

Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) (NYT & much more)
Also Known as: lexis/nexis, Lexis-Nexis, Lexis Nexis, LN Academic, LexisNexis Academic, Lexis Nexis Academic
Access to full-text national and international newspapers , including the New York Times, and the Times of London business and accounting information, biographical data, and some selected legal mat...   [more]
Supplemental URLs
    LN Academic becomes Nexis Uni transition
    LexisNexis Academic (old interface)

Weekly China Briefing
Tracks Chinese business news with a special focus on China and Africa. Complied by Centre for Chinese Studies, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

World News Connection
Also Known as: WNC
English translations of non-U.S. media sources....   [more]
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Related International Relations News Sources

Alt-Press Watch
Also Known as: AltPress Watch, Philadelphia City Paper, Philadelphia Weekly. Alt-Press Watch (APW)
Provides fulltext for U.S. alternative and independent newspapers, weeklies, magazines, and journals. Topics include the arts, media and popular culture, business and labor, literature and criticism, ...   [more]
Holdings: Coverage varies, from 1990.

EMIS
Full-text news, financial, economic and market information focusing largely on emerging market countries....   [more]

Facts on File
Also Known as: World News Digest @ Facts.com , World News Digest
Full-text of the Facts on File World News Digest from 1980 forward. World News Archive from 1940-79 and Reuters News for the last two weeks. facts.com...   [more]
Holdings: January 1980-present. Weekly updates. Hourly newsfeeds.
Supplemental URLs
    Alternate URL

Latinamerica Press
Also Known as: Latin America Press
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Newsbank Access World News
Also Known as: NewsBank National Newspapers , America's Newspapers , Access World News , News Bank
Searchable fulltext of international and U.S. national, regional, and local newspapers. Coverage for current issues (i.e., yesterday in most cases) with extensive backfiles. Business and Management, ...   [more]
Holdings: Varies with title, 1970s or more recent to present.
    NewsBank U.S. Newspapers

Newspapers of the World on the Internet
By continent and country....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

PressReader
Also Known as: Newspapers Direct Library PressDisplay , newspaper direct (NewspaperDirect)
Fulltext access to more than 7,000 newspapers and magazines from more than 100 countries in 60+ languages....   [more]

Vanderbilt Television News Archive
Also Known as: VTNA TV-NewsSearch CNN
Searchable abstracting service for national television network news broadcasts. CNN broadcasts available as RealMedia video streams, 1998-present. VTNA lends videotapes of broadcasts or item compilati...   [more]
Holdings: 1968-present.