Research Guides: Fellowships & Prizes Application Research (SC): International News (Watson)

International News Article Databases

Not all news can be found on Google. Try searching the news databases that the Tri-Co libraries provide to expand your research.

Try the advanced search features on these websites, which let you (e.g.) limit results by date, geographic region, etc.

Access World News
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Newspaper collections from NewsBank provide full-text articles from the electronic editions of record for more than 700 newspapers around the globe. Database covers 1977-present. Easy to narrow down your search to just newspapers from a particular region, country, or city.
Nexis Uni
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Full-text of thousands of newspapers, magazines, news transcripts, reference works, and legal materials. Includes NY Times (1980-current)

Suggestions for researching cases: Expand your search to include regional and local papers by changing the drop-down menu from "Major World Publications" to "Newspapers."

If you get a lot of search results, use the Geographic limit (left-hand side of the search results page) to narrow down your results to just the location(s) you're researching.

These links give you additional options beyond what's available through Google.

AllAfrica.com
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Provides daily news and information in English and French from across the African continent. Covers 1996-present (BMC & SC).
MideastWire
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Provides concise, translated,daily briefs covering some of the key political, cultural, economic and opinion pieces appearing via the print, radio and television media of the 22 Arab countries, Iran and the Arab Diaspora. Covers 2005-