Guides: Global Communication: Databases

News

allafrica.com
Aggregates and indexes content from over 130 African news organizations and over 200 other sources.

Factiva
Current and historical news from thousands of publications worldwide in over 20 languages. Company overviews and stock data are available for public companies.
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 access to the FBIS Daily Reports microfiche collection by subject (including personalities), date, country, and region.
Nexis Uni (NYT & much more)
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 materials. News sources also include magazines, broadcast transcripts, and wire services. Among the document sources included are the U.S. Code and Federal Case Law, state codes and case law, and U.S. patents.
Note that many Congressional publications including bills and laws, the Congressional Record, the Federal Register and campaign finance and voting record data which were previously available in LEXIS/NEXIS are now accessible through a companion database, Congressional Universe.
PressReader
The last 60 days of 225 newspapers from 55 countries.
Mideastwire.com
Daily email newsletter of concise, translated briefs covering some of the key political, cultural, economic and opinion pieces appearing in the media of the 22 Arab countries, Iran and the Arab Diaspora.
Newsbank Access World News
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, Communication, Education, Philadelphia Studies, Political Science, Public Policy and Administration, Science and Engineering, Social Sciences, Sociology, Urban Studies.
World News Connection
English translations of non-U.S. media sources.
World Newspaper Archive
Searchable page image reproductions of pre-1923 newspapers, worldwide. Based largely upon the holdings of the Center for Research Libraries, these newspapers are released in regional collections.

Academic

America: History and Life
EBSco
Columbia International Affairs Online
Covers theory and research in international affairs.

Communication Source
Developed from recent merge of Communication and Mass Media Complete and Communication Abstracts, Communication Source is the premier research database for communication studies. Covers academic, popular and trade journals.

EBSCO MegaFILE
General, multidisciplinary periodical database, covering all scholarly disciplines, with many general and popular magazines, and news sources. Includes bibliographic citations with indexing and abstracts for more than 16,000 periodicals.
Francis
Francis covers a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities and social sciences. It is strong in religion, the history of art, and literature with emphasis on current trends in European and world literature. Other subjects covered include: art and archeology, business, education, economics, geography, health, history of science, Latin American Studies, linguistics, management, philosophy, prehistory, and sociology. English, French, German, Spanish and some other languages.
Global Health
Global Health consists of more than 1.2 million record. Research content covering public health, tropical and communicable diseases, nutrition, helminthology, entomology and mycology.
Historical Abstracts
Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada).
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
Bibliographic citations and subject indexing for the international journal article and book literature in anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology. Produced by British Library of Political and Economic Science, London School of Economics and Political Science, with the support and assistance of International Committee for Social Science Information and Documentation and UNESCO.
Middle East Online Series 1: Arab-Israeli Relations 1917-1970
A sampler of more than 1,000 documents providing more than 200,000 pages of documents from the National Archives UK covering Palestine and the Arab-Israeli conflict from the Balfour Declaration (1917) to the Black September War (1970-1971). Almost two-thirds of the documents are Foreign Office general correspondence, with the Palestine Sessional Papers and other Colonial Office documents and documents from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Cabinet Office, Admiralty, Office of the Prime Minister, and Treasury. Reproduces in searchable fulltext page images, every document in relevant PRO files with no editorial intervention.
Middle East Online Series 2: Iraq 1914-1974
A sampler of more than 3,000 documents from the National Archives UK selected to illustrate internal politics in Iraq, British colonial and foreign relations with Iraq, and Iraq in world politics during World War I through 1974. Most documents are Foreign Office general correspondence, with documents from the Foreign and Colonial Office, War Office, Colonial Office, Air Ministry, Cabinet Office, and Air Ministry included.
PAIS Index
Bibliographic citations (1915-) with indexing on contemporary public affairs and policy issues worldwide related to a wide range of topics: agriculture, banking, finance, business, demographics, education, health, environment, planning, public administration, law and legislation, and international relations. Materials indexed include journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, and Internet material. Newspapers and newsletters are not indexed.
PolicyArchive
Digital archive of non-partisan policy research. Collects summaries and full texts, videos, reports, briefs, and multimedia material of think tank, university, government, and foundation-funded policy research.
Scopus
Indexes most peer reviewed journals in science, technology, and medicine, and many in the social sciences, arts, and humanities. Scopus also includes a number of trade publications and conference papers, and can perform author and affiliation searching.
Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)
Sociological Abstracts
Covers sociology, case work, demographics, policy studies, political science, family studies, feminist studies, and social security programs.
UNESDOC
Fulltext or page image for UNESCO documents. Materials cover the subject areas of interest to UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization): education, communication and information, culture, the natural sciences, and the social sciences and humanities.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
67% of the more than 1500 monitored journals are published outside the United States, and there are nearly 500,000 records beginning in 1975. Some of the records have fulltext links and coverage includes all aspects of political science, as well as international relations and comparative politics.

Constitution Finder

Locate your country's Constituion here.

Guides for Navigating News Databases

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