E-Resources Digest

November 2022

For the month of November, we are highlighting East View’s World News Connection Archive, an online database providing researchers and scholars with the most comprehensive collection covering the original World News Connection service from 1995 to 2013. 

This archive stems from the original World News Connection, which started in 1995 by providing access to open-source materials from around the world – selected and methodically translated into English by analysts from the U.S. Government’s domestic and overseas bureaus. Daily updates were sourced from newspaper articles, television and radio broadcasts, online sources, conference proceedings, periodicals, and non-classified reports, and offered timely coverage of the latest socioeconomic, political, scientific, technical, and environmental issues and events. 

The daily updates were discontinued in 2013 and are now stored in this archive, which contains over 1 million foreign newspaper articles, broadcast transcripts and datelines from Beijing, Beirut, Bogota, Cairo, Jakarta, Iraq, Mogadishu, Qatar, Ramallah, Sarajevo, Vienna, and hundreds of other locations around the world. With content from 500 translated news sources and over 130 countries, the database offers a clean, intuitive interface with searchable full-text content. You can choose to browse the database casually or take advantage of the powerful search tools that allow users to search the full text or metadata fields, including source title, country or city of source, source language, date of publication, topic and more.

Want to know what countries and titles are available? You can view and search the World News Connection Country and Title List. You can also contact our Social Sciences & History Librarian, Amanda Binder, to learn more about this news archive.

Visit the Electronic Resources Research Guide to view past spotlights, resources news, troubleshooting help, and more.

Hispanic Life in America, Series 3 (2010-Present) is one of the two DEI collections recently added to our collection, thanks to our NewsBank Access World News Research Collection upgrade. As recorded by the news media, this collection captures the experience and impact of Hispanic Americans from 2010 to present day. Featuring multidisciplinary content in a variety of formats, the resources in this collection support discussions on Hispanic heritage, history, culture, and daily life. You will find this collection to be a helpful tool for your independent research, course assignments, and personal pursuit of knowledge. 

The collection is organized by events, topics and eras with subtopics for each listed section such as historical reflections, religion, arts and much more. While you can search and browse as you would any other database, you can also use the collection's "map search" feature where you can filter your search results to only include content from a particular location.

We want your feedback on this new resource. Leave a comment to let us know what you think!