Latin American Newsstream

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Overview

This database (formerly "Latin American Newsstand") provides access to current content and the past two decades for more than 130 full text news sources in Spanish, Portuguese and English from across Central and South America. It also contains content from wire services and regional magazines.

Provider:

ProQuest

Posted:

Feb 26, 2013 4:23pm

Updated:

Sep 20, 2017 1:18pm

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

Newspapers

Major Languages:

English

French

- Denotes data sourced directly from publisher

Content Details:


Geographic coverage	Central and South America
Chronological coverage	1995 to present (for some titles)
Content types	newspapers, wire services, regional magazines
Source formats	electronic files from the publisher (usually also available on the publishers' web sites)
Total titles	130+
Total pages	NA
Digital collection launch date	2005
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:


Browser compatibility	Netscape 4.7x or higher; Microsoft IE 5 or higher; Firefox 3.5 or higher; Chrome
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

Interface Tools:


Full text displayed	Y
Page images	N
Color images	N
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 and Provider Details

Terms:


	Options
Subscription option	Y
Purchase option	N
Multiple year payments option	NA
Hosting charges	NA
List of purchasers available	NA
Sample license available	NA
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 provides access to current content as well as some content of the past two decades for "130 news sources" from across Central and South America, Mexico and Puerto Rico. It also contains content from wire services and regional magazines.

Coverage includes prominent news sources (news publishers & newswires) from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, and Venezuela. According to ProQuest's title list, the prinicpal sources of content appear to come from Global Network Content Services (d/b/a NoticiasFinancieras¹), a news syndication system; and South American Business Information (SABI), an abstracting service based in Brazil covering selected titles 2005-2012. The product also incorporates news services including BBC Monitoring, Christian Science Monitor, AP Spanish, UPI news services, and Wall Street Journal Americas.

Latin American Newsstream (formerly Latin American Newsstand) is offered as a discrete product on the ProQuest platform, but is also incorporated into the broader "International Newsstream" and the comprehensive "Global Newsstream" products available via ProQuest Central.

A CRL analysis of the extent of title holdings indicates that while some holdings go back to the early 1990s, the majority of titles began in 2005; current title holdings peak between 2008 and 2012, leveling off at around 48 titles from 2013-present. While ProQuest represents coverage of 130 news sources in the product, the current title list (as of September 2017) represents only 92 sources, of which only 48 are current. See Appendix A for more detailed analysis.

In March 2013 CRL noted that all 54 titles from U.S. Hispanic Newsstand were suplicated in the Latin American Newsstand product. As of 2017, it appears Latin American Newsstream and U.S. Hispanic Newsstream now offer distinct content, with only central wire services overlapping in content.

Delivery:

Articles are available in ASCII format. Automatic tools are available to translate articles from Spanish to English and English to Spanish. Ackerman (2008)² cautioned that the translation quality varies since it is machine generated. Also, translation of an article abstract was generated only after opening the full article and requesting translation.

The platform offers all features of ProQuest's platform, including faceted options for massaging results and a word-occurrence graph. It offers natural language searching, and narrowing of searches by date, document types, and several other fields.

ProQuest does not offer MARC records for the titles.

Strengths and Weaknesses:

Desipte coverage of many prominent news sources from Latin America, coverage does not appear even across all countries of Central and SOuth America. As the majority of content is sourced from a syndication service representing primarily financial news interests, the content is skewed towards sources representing business, economic and financial news (though many of the news sources also cover broader social and political news).

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.

Endnotes:

¹ In 1997, Global Network Content Services was incorporated into International Media Services (IMS), a Latin America-focused media services company. In 2008, GNCS was acquired by Marketwire, which itself was acquired in 2016 by Nasdaq. Source: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hectorbotero/ (Accessed 20 September, 2017)

² Holly Ackerman, “Latin American Newsstand,” The Charleston Advisor (October 2008): 19–23; Ibid., “Newspaper Databases in Latin American and Latino Studies: Four Key Products,” The Charleston Advisor (January 2010): 11–17. Accessed February 27, 2013.

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

Attachments:

Latin American Newsstream: CRL title holdings analysis

Current title list can be found on ProQuest's site at: http://tls.search.proquest.com/titlelist/jsp/list/tlsSingle.jsp?productI...

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