Monthly digest of worldwide political, diplomatic and economic affairs providing full-text international news reports since 1931. A particularly useful source for foreign political and economic reports. 1931-
An intelligence component of the CIA, FBIS monitored, translated, and disseminated news and information from media sources outside the United States.
FBIS Daily Reports, 1941-1996 constitutes a one-of-a-kind archive of transcripts of foreign broadcasts and news that provides fascinating insight into the second half of the 20th century. Many of these materials are firsthand reports of events as they occurred. Digitized from original paper copy and high-quality microfilm, this definitive online collection features full-text transcripts from Africa, Asia and the Pacific, China, Eastern and Western Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and the Soviet Union.
Starting with publications from late 1995, FBIS reports are available online in the World News Connection database. The University of Chicago Library's coverage is limited to materials from November 1995 to December 2013.
World News Connection is an online news service, that offers an extensive array of translated and English-language news and information. This is no longer being updated.
CRL is a consortium of North American academic and independent research libraries. It has an extremely strong newspaper collection (foreign, domestic, and specialized), and liberal borrowing policies. Use the Newspaper search to locate holdings and request them through Interlibrary Loan.