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Keesing's World News Archive

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Overview

An online  subscription database of monthly digests of international news, based on articles reporting world events and developments, from 1931 forward. The archive incorporates Keesing’s Contemporary Archives (1931-1987) and its continuation, Keesing’s Record of World Events (1987 -   ). Events covered include government changes, wars, treaties, diplomatic initiatives, international agreements, security, legislation, budgets, natural disasters, environmental issues, and scientific discoveries.

Provider: 
Keesing's Worldwide, LLC [1]
Posted: 
Feb 21, 2017 1:59pm
Updated: 
Feb 21, 2017 2:06pm
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Collection Content

Subject Areas: 
Arts and Humanities
Health and Life Sciences
Social Sciences
Resource Types: 
News databases

Terms and Provider Details

Provider: 
Keesing's Worldwide, LLC [1]
Website: 
http://www.keesings.com/ [2]
Main Address: 
3100 Mill St Ste 210b
Post Office Box 12415
Reno, NV 89502
United States
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Collection Content: 

The archive includes monthly digests of news reports on various topics, in a wide range of languages, collected by Keesing's editorial staff from news outlets worldwide, Keesing's editorial team, based in Cambridge, UK, summarizes news reports into a series of articles. placing "the world’s most significant political, social and economic events events . . .within [their] immediate and historical context,"  An example of a Keesing's report on 1992 elections in Iran is available at http://web.stanford.edu/group/tomzgroup/pmwiki/uploads/3566-1992-04-KS-b... [3]

Delivery: 

Subject searching within the archive is enabled using Keesing's own vocabulary of "nations", "people", and "tags" (events).  A guide to searching the database [4] is available online. 

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Source URL: https://edesiderata.crl.edu/resources/keesings-world-news-archive

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[1] https://edesiderata.crl.edu/providers/keesings-worldwide-llc
[2] http://www.keesings.com/
[3] http://web.stanford.edu/group/tomzgroup/pmwiki/uploads/3566-1992-04-KS-b-IEM.pdf. 
[4] http://www.upf.edu/bibtic/recursos/guies/keesing.pdf