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SpotlightNews

SpotlightNews Description: Spotlight Media Labs, Inc. was founded with the mission of reinvigorating the newspaper industry by creating a new generation of readers. We connect college students with credible sources of information and put it on their phones. Available as a native mobile app for iPhone and Android smartphones and tablets as well as a web app for desktops, the SpotlightNews® app provides a superior and consistent reading experience across the diverse and rapidly...

Provider: Spotlight Media Labs
Updated: Mar 14, 2024 8:21am

STAT+

STAT+ is the premiere enterprise offering from STAT, the leading digital news authority reporting on biopharma, health tech & AI, the business of making medicines, the intersection of politics and health policy, healthcare, insurance, and the life sciences.

Provider: STAT+
Updated: Nov 20, 2023 9:03am

The Wall Street Journal

Digital subscription to The Wall Street Journal provides unlimited access to www.wsj.com, a business-focused, international online newspaper.  It is published by Dow Jones & Company. 

Provider: Dow Jones & Company
Updated: May 24, 2023 8:08am

Global Press Archive

The Global Press Archive is an initiative by East View Information Services in partnership with Stanford University Libraries and the Hoover Institution Library & Archives to digitize over 2,000 predominantly foreign-language newspaper titles ranging in coverage from the late 19th Century to present times. 

Launched in 2016, the Global Press Archive features stand-alone titles and databases aggregating multiple titles from specific regions and time periods, and includes over 1,500 newspapers, 450,000 issues, and 4.7 million pages of content, with 17 countries and 12 languages represented. Most Global Press Alliance titles have been released on East View’...

Provider: East View Information Services
Updated: Jun 2, 2023 12:14pm

Washington Post Online

National Digital Edition of www.washingtonpost.com provides national and world news on the web for computers, tablets and smart phones. 

Provider: WP Company LLC (The Washington Post)
Updated: Sep 15, 2022 9:59am

World News Connection

The World News Connection (WNC) contains English-language transcriptions of news articles from selected non-U.S. sources, generated by the U.S. Open Source Center. WNC began distribution in 1995 as a successor product to the Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports. The service was discontinued on December 31, 2013.

The WNC offered by East View Information Services offers access to 856,013 items dating from 1995 to 2013. The archive is full-image with fully searchable text. 

Provider: East View Information Services
Updated: Jan 31, 2023 8:09am

MultiData Online

MultiData Online is a news database covering 52 dailies and weekly newspapers dating back to 1994. The service collects news stories in the Arabic language from various newspapers and portals as well as a number of English and French language newspapers published in Arab countries. 

MultiData Online is divided into five databases. The services includes access to full text of 52 newspapers, bibliographic citations for articles from over 225 Arabic periodicals since 1920, full text book reviews from more than 250 newspapers and magazines in the Arab world from 1998, subject index to theses submitted to 21 Lebanese institutions, and access to an index Arabicus which includes the contents of 42 Arabic periodicals published between 1870 and 1969. ...

Provider: Multidata Services Inc.
Updated: Aug 22, 2019 9:44am

International Herald Tribune Historical Archive 1887-2013

International Herald Tribune Historical Archive 1887-2013 provides access to the full run of the daily newspaper, from its first issue through to 2013. Articles, advertisements, and market listings are included—shown both individually and in the context of the full page and issue of the day.

Provider: Gale
Updated: Jul 1, 2020 12:05am

Document Cloud

DocumentCloud is a platform and tool to help journalists share, analyze, annotate, and publish source documents to the open web. 

All DocumentCloud is open source and available on Github.

Provider: Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc.
Updated: Jul 27, 2018 4:03pm

Acceda Noticias

Database of news sources in Spanish from around the world. The product is fully searchable and features current and archived primary source information.

Provider: Readex
Updated: Jul 2, 2018 3:43pm

Ethnic NewsWatch

Ethnic NewsWatch is a database provided by ProQuest that features newspaper, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press. The publications date back to 1990, with full-text of apprximately 1.8 million articles from 315 publications of both national and regional coverage.

Major Latino publications are featured, including El Nuevo Herald, and El Andar. 

Provider: ProQuest
Updated: Jun 28, 2018 1:44pm

Newspaper Source

Full text database of 25 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. Also contains full text from more than 335 regional (U.S.) newspapers. In addition, full text television & radio transcripts are provided.

The database includes news publications from the following countries: United States, Australia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Romania, United Kingdom, Barbados, Japan, Fiji, Israel, Bahrain, Ireland, Jordan, Kuwait, Philippines, Mexico, Papua New Guinea, Slovkia, France, Costa Rica, and Canada. 

Provider: EBSCO Information Services
Updated: Jun 28, 2018 1:36pm

Nexis Uni

Database providing full-text access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information, including hundreds of U.S. and foreign newspapers, legal and business publications, wire services, broadcast media transcripts, and trade/news magazines.

Provider: LexisNexis
Updated: Mar 2, 2018 4:08pm

SCAN

SCAN is a Russian online news archive dating back to 1983. It provides access to articles from more than 24,000 Russian and CIS sources including national and regional newspapers, trade magazines, industry journals, social media, TV/Radio transcripts, blogs and more with 200,000+ new articles uploaded to the service on a daily basis.

Provider: Interfax Information Services Group
Updated: Jan 30, 2018 4:01pm

Factiva

Database of global news sources on finance and business; Factiva provides full-text to many major national and regional newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Globe and Mail, and The Financial Times. The resource also provides text from newswires and television and radio news transcripts. 

Provider: Dow Jones & Company
Updated: Jan 10, 2018 12:01pm

World Scholar Historical Archive: Latin America

World Scholar Historical Archive: Latin America provides access to 1.3 million pages of primary and secondary sources from Latin America from the 15th century to present day.

It includes:

US State Department records on Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Cuba, Guatemala, Haiti, Mexico and more Conquistadors: The Struggle for Colonial Power in Latin America, 1492-1825 Newspapers and journals from Latin Ameria and more
Provider: Gale
Updated: Jul 1, 2020 12:05am

International Newsstream

International Newsstream (formerly ProQuest International Newsstand) offers access to current and recent retrospective content for more than 8000 news sources from outside the U.S. and Canada, including prominent titles such as The Bangkok Post, El Norte, Financial Times, The Guardian, Jerusalem Post, South China Morning Post, The Daily Telegraph, Asian Wall Street Journal, and the BBC Monitoring series for various world regions. Subscribing libraries can also select individual titles or a customized group.

Provider: ProQuest
Updated: Sep 21, 2017 4:57pm

Alternative Press Index

Bibliographic database of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from hundreds of international alternative, radical, and left periodicals. Covering 1991 to the present.

Provider: EBSCO Information Services
Updated: Sep 21, 2017 12:55pm

Global Newsstream

Recent global news content and archives that stretch back into the 1980s, from approximately 2,500 news sources including: newspapers, newswires, news journals, television and radio transcripts, blogs, podcasts, and digital-only websites in full-text format

Provider: ProQuest
Updated: Sep 21, 2017 12:53pm

Middle East & African Newsstream

This digital collection (formerly Middle East Newsstand) provides access to the current content and past few decades of more than 150 news sources from across the Arab World, Israel, Southwest Asia, and Africa.  Product coverage includes newspapers,wire feeds, trade journals, and select additional sources. Content is represented in English and French (Arabic sources are not included). 

Provider: ProQuest
Updated: Sep 20, 2017 3:01pm

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