LibGuides: 2015 ACDIS Summer Workshop in International Security: News Resources

News Resources Available at UIUC

Access World News This link opens in a new window
1977 to present

Sources include articles from newspapers, news-wires, transcripts, online news, blogs, journals, college and university newspapers, videos and newsletters. You can also use the interface to read Newsweek and some military and government news sources.
Emerging Markets Information Service (EMIS) This link opens in a new window
(Formerly ISI Emerging Markets)

News reports from a large number of countries in both English and vernacular language.
Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window
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1990 to present

Ethnic News Watch includes newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to often overlooked perspectives. The publications offer both national and regional coverage including full text publications for 200 newspapers and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press.
Keesing's World News Archives This link opens in a new window
1931 to present

This provides a digest of the current events identified by creators of the database as "a lasting archive of original, accurate, and objective articles on the world's political, social, and economic events." We suggest you go to the "Advanced Search" and type in the name of at least one of the countries involved if you are looking at specific conflicts or country related issues. You can also limit by date if you know the approximate year you are looking for.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
1980 to present for most sources

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe identifies full text publications for users wanting to search news, US and international law, company profiles and SEC filings, countries or public figures or a combination of content types.
PressReader This link opens in a new window
One of the most interesting newspaper resources, this provides access to a large number of titles with digital facsimiles of the page you are looking at. The database has images in most cases for the last sixty days.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Times (1851-2018) This link opens in a new window
1851-1993

This is the "paper of record" for the United States, but it frequently captures news from around the world. Enter the search including the country's name and records come up in reverse order with the oldest articles first.