International News Sources
- International Newspaper Collections
- Africa
- Asia
- Canada
- Europe
- Latin America
- Middle East
- Finding world newspapers at Princeton (guide by History Librarian Elizabeth Bennett)
- United States Papers
Provides full-text of many major national and regional newspapers.
For comparisons between Lexis-Nexis Academic and Factiva see http://www.princeton.edu/~econlib/universe.html .
Provides full-text of many major international newspapers.
Note: Click THE WORLD link above the map.
Note: Click THE WORLD link above the map.
World News Connection (July 1994+. (For 1975-1996 use Foreign Broadcast Information Service.))
Foreign News Alert Service from the US Government. Compiled from thousands of non-U.S. media sources, focusing especially on local media sources. Covers significant socioeconomic, political, scientific, technical, and environmental issues and events.
Provides full-text of many major national and regional newspapers, including the full-text of the Wall Street Journal. For comparisons between Lexis-Nexis Academic and Factiva see http://www.princeton.edu/~econlib/universe.html .
Provides full-text access to historical newspapers. At the moment, only a rapidly growing Latin American Newspapers module is available.
Links to online newspapers and other news sources worldwide. Primarily composed of newspapers but also includes many broadcast stations, internet services, magazines, and press agencies.
Alt-Press Watch (Earliest date is 1973. Most start in the 1990s.)
Full text database of newspapers, magazines and journals from alternative and independent presses.
Dateline (1985+)
Contains articles from local and regional publications that chronicle the day-to-day operations of U.S. and Canadian companies. Important business trends and events as well as regional market and economic conditions also receive considerable coverage.
Digital edition of journals and newspapers published between 1685-1815 in England, Scotland, Ireland, Jamaica, and British India.
FACTS.com (1940+)
Provides digest of major news stories around the world.
GenderWatch (1970+)
Full text database of unique and diverse publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas.
Monthly digest of worldwide political, diplomatic and economic affairs.
Links to newspapers and front pages from around the world.
Index to the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news.
Subject-inclusive, language-inclusive bibliography of 50,000 publications, 48,000 personal names, 4,572 issuing bodies and 756 subjects.
Primary source of data on the newspaper industry world-wide. For each of 233 countries and territories, a broad range of annual data includes elements such as the number of titles and circulation, advertising costs and income, sales revenue, number of journalists and employees, salary costs, and costs for newsprint.
Africa (Also see International Newspaper Collections)
allAfrica.com (1997+)
Provides access to the full text of over 120 African newspapers and magazines, including articles in French. Covers the entire African continent.
Asia (Also see International Newspaper Collections)
China Infobank (1995+)
Up-to-date political and economic news and business information, including statistics, collected from over 1,000 Chinese media sources. Includes some Western language material.
Kikuzo II bijuaru for Libraries (1926+)
Fully searchable Japanese newspaper database containing all non-copyrighted articles from Asahi shinbun since 1926. In addition, it includes Aera, Shukan Asahi and Chiezo. Note: Click on "Sutato gamen e (SSL)"
Digital news archive service open to the public. Includes three newspapers: Kyonghyang Sinmun, Tonga Ilbo, and Maeil Kyongje. Full-text search by date, keyword, etc. is available and texts are provided in images and electronic texts.
Quanguo baokan suoyin (1950-1970, 1980-1992, 1993-1999, 2000)
Access: East Asian Library only
Indexes more than 3,000 to 7,000 Chinese journals and newspapers depending on the dates of coverage. Not on-line, only available at the East Asian Library; needs special Chinese settings.
Indexes more than 3,000 to 7,000 Chinese journals and newspapers depending on the dates of coverage. Not on-line, only available at the East Asian Library; needs special Chinese settings.
Renda shubao ziliao databases (1978 + (index); 1995 + (full-text).)
Index to more than 3,000 Chinese-language journals and newspapers.
Renmin Ribao (1946+)
- Renmin Ribao (2007+)
- Renmin Ribao (1946-2006)
IMPORTANT: for pdf files, see instructions on East Asian Library pages.
Collection of searchable Taiwanese full-text newspapers from the United Daily News group, including the Lianhebao from 1951.
Zhongyang Ribao(1928-1949)
Pdf version of Zhongyang Ribao (Central Daily News), Taiwan. Searchable by headings, keywords, or dates.
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Canada (Also see International Newspaper Collections)
Globe and Mail (Toronto) (1844+)
- Globe and Mail (Lexis-Nexis Academic) (2000+)
- Globe and Mail (1844-2004)
Europe (Also see International Newspaper Collections)
Times (London) (1785+)
- Times London(Lexis-Nexis Academic) (July 1, 1985+) (Text)
- Times (London) Digital Archive (1785-1985) (Page Images)
- Palmer's Full Text Online & Index to the Times (1790-1905)
- Official Index to The Times (1906-1980)
Guardian and Observer (1791+)
- Guardian (Lexis-Nexis Academic) (1984+)
- Observer (Lexis-Nexis Academic) (1992+)
- Guardian and Observer (1791-2003)
Irish Times, The (1859+)
- Irish Times (Lexis-Nexis Academic) (1992+)
- Irish Times (1859-2007)
Digital edition of newspapers from the Burney Collection at the British Library. Most are London newspapers of the 17th and 18th
centuries, but there are also pamphlets and broadsides.
Contains full runs of 48 newspapers from the British Library. Provides a representative selection of papers from 19th century Britain and includes national & regional newspapers from England, Scotland, Ireland & Wales.
Free, online edition of nineteenth-century periodicals and newspapers: Monthly Repository (1806-1837); Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833); Northern Star (1838-1852); Leader (1850-1860); English Woman's Journal (1858-1864); Tomahawk (1867-1870); and Publishers' Circular (1880-1890).
Provides access to journal articles, news articles, government reports, and other material from the post-Soviet period. Provides access in Russian or English. Searches submitted in English will yield results in English. Searches in Russian may be conducted using a drop-down keyboard or using Library of Congress Transliteration. Individual titles currently held in electronic format only may be browsed and searched.
Latin America (Also see International Newspaper Collections) and Newspapers and Current Information (Latin America, Spain, and Portugal)
CDPress Mexico (1991+)
Access: Firestone; Microforms
Full-text Mexican newspapers
Full-text Mexican newspapers
Chile News (1990+)
- Chile News (1993+)
- Chile News (1990-1993)
Cuba News (1998+)
Monthly publication offering information on political and economic developments in Cuba. Click here for user name and password information.
El Pais.es (1976+)
Articles from the newspaper of record for Spain -- El Pais.
Selection of full-text Latin-American newspapers and newswires covering international and Latin-American regional topics.
Paper of record for Chile.
Middle East (Also see International Newspaper Collections)
Note: Use Internet Explorer. In order to access this database, Hebrew fonts must be loaded. Indexes articles in Hebrew language periodicals and a few monographs, as well as articles in other languages dealing with all aspects of Israeli life and culture. Files which make up the database include Eretz Israel Database, Tel-Hai Index to Hebrew Newspapers, and the Bar-Ilan Indexing Project.
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.
