International Newsstream

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Overview

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

Posted:

Feb 26, 2013 2:37pm

Updated:

Sep 21, 2017 4:57pm

Source

CRL reviews are based on independent research. Information is researched by CRL staff and other specialists at CRL libraries. See CRL Review for additional source notes.

Details

Collection Content

Subject Areas:

Social Sciences

Resource Types:

News databases

Major Languages:

Varied

- Denotes data sourced directly from publisher

Content Details:


Geographic coverage	Worldwide
Chronological coverage	1977 to present (for some titles)
Content types	Newspapers
Source formats	born digital?
Total titles	660+
Total pages	NA
Digital collection launch date	1998
Update frequency	daily
Collection ongoing	Y
Completion date	NA
Available supplements	NA

Specifications

Metadata:


MARC records available	N
Creator of MARC records	NA
Structural metadata exposed anywhere?	NA
Subject authorities used	NA
Name authorities used	NA

Technical Platform:


Authentication options	IP range recognition
Archiving solution-master files	Archived by ProQuest
Archiving solution-derivative files	Archived by ProQuest
Availability in web Discovery tools	Y (Summon)
Open URL target	Y
Federated searching z39.50	Y
Local host option	N
Usage statistics	Y
Browser compatibility	Netscape 4.7x or higher; Mic

Interface Tools:


Full text displayed	Y
Page images	N
Color images	Y
Search full text	Y
Advanced search	Y
Search within results	Y
Limit results by dates and/or document types	Y
Display highlighted search terms	Y
Display snippet -- search term in context	N
Relevance sorting	N
Save searches	Y
Download PDF	N
Download HTML	Y
Print page	Y
Print full document	Y
Export citations	Y
Annotation tools	N
Cross-product searching	Y
ILL	Y (provided the loan is not done in a manner or magnitude that would replace the recipient library's own subscription)
Restrictions on use	Y (terms in license agreement)

Terms and Provider Details

Terms:


	Options
Subscription option	Y
Purchase option	NA
Multiple year payments option	NA
Hosting charges	NA
List of purchasers available	Y
Sample license available	Y
MARC records purchase fee	NA
Price tier basis	NA

Provider:

ProQuest

Website:

http://www.proquest.com/

Main Address:

789 E. Eisenhower Parkway

Ann Arbor, MI 48108

United States

CRL Review

Collection Content:

This database offers access to current and recent retrospective content for more than 800 news sources from outside the U.S. and Canada, including such prominent titles 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.

The publisher indicates that “each issue of every newspaper is indexed thoroughly, so researchers have access to not only top news stories but also detailed information on sports, business, and the arts around the world.”

Sources include a range of newspapers, wire feeds, news magazines, blogs, and other sources. The largest suppliers of content appear to be through syndication services (SyndiGate Media Inc., Global Network Content Services) and large media groups such as Fairfax Media Publications and News Limited (Australia); Financial Times, MGN Ltd. and Johnston Press New Media (UK); and HT Media Ltd. (India). Correspondingly, content is weighted more strongly towards sources from Australia, UK, and India, though the product maintains a broad representative sample of material from various world regions.

International Newsstream (formerly ProQuest International Newsstand) is discrete product offering from ProQuest, incorporating sources from smaller product subsets such as Latin American Newsstream and Middle East & African Newsstream. Sources provided in International Newsstream are also available in the broader Global Newsstream (combining international, U.S. and Canadian sources) available via ProQuest Central.

Delivery:

Articles are presented in ASCII format. Abstracts (generated through an automated indexing tool) are provided for all articles, as well as citations.

The platform offers all features of ProQuest’s central platform, including faceted options for filtering results and a word occurrence graph. It offers natural language searching, narrowing of searches by date, document types, and several other fields, as well as an on-demand translation tool. The interface is available in 17 languages.

ProQuest does not offer MARC records for the titles.

Reviewers:

Center for Research Libraries

Virginia Kerr – Digital Program Manager
James Simon – Vice President, Collections & Services

Sources

Sources for this review include information publicly posted or obtained directly from the publisher; data collected by CRL staff and specialists at CRL libraries; and examination of the digital collection when possible. Other sources are noted where cited. CRL continues to gather additional information on this resource and to solicit critical assessment.

CRL Offers & Status

Status	Current	Description
CRL Flagged	no	Potential interest to CRL community
Offer Pending	no	Currently a candidate for CRL offer
Active Offer	no	Currently offered for purchase or new subscription
Trial Access	no	Available for trial
Renewal Offer	no	Currently offered for renewal
Expired Offer	yes	Past offers
Inactive / Declined	no	No longer under consideration by CRL
Reviewed by CRL	yes	Evaluation available by CRL and community
Special Access	no	Member-only access available for a limited time

The complete offer and activity details for this resource are only available to CRL members.

Appendix

Title List:

International Newsstream Title List (as of Sep 2017)

Current title lists may be downloaded from ProQuest's site at: http://tls.search.proquest.com/titlelist/jsp/list/tlsSingle.jsp?productI...

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