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