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International Newspapers

Newspaper Databases | Digitization Projects | Specific Newspapers by Language

Newspaper Databases

LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe
Coverage: 1977 - current

Access to popular press material such as newspaper articles. Also contains law review articles.

Foreign Language News and Newspapers
http://libraries.mit.edu/guides/types/flnews/

Links to newspapers in Chinese, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

Foreign Broadcast Information Service Electronic Index
Coverage: 1975 - 1996

Index only to translations of foreign news media by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service. Microfiche text found in Documents/Microfiche area - PrEx 7.10.

World News Connection
Coverage: 1995 - current

Translations of foreign news media by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS).

Foreign Newspapers Database at the Center for Research Libraries 
http://www.crl.edu/content.asp?l1=5&l2=23&l3=44&l4=27
Search by title, city, country, language, etc. and request materials to be loaned via Prospector

See Center for Research Libraries FAQ.

Latin American Newspapers
Coverage: 1805 - 1922

More than 35 fully searchable newspapers published in the 19th and early 20th centuries from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela and elsewhere.

South Asian Newspapers
Coverage: 1864 - 1922

Collection of newspapers published in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka; languages include English, Bengali and Gujarati. When completed, this collection will provide 400,000+ pages.

Digitization Projects

ICON: International Coalition on Newspapers
http://icon.crl.edu/digitization.htm

Highlights and links to past, present, and prospective digitization projects of historic newspapers from around the world and in the U.S. (Most are free, some cost).

Specific International Newspapers by Language

English

London Times

Spanish

El Pais
http://www.elpais.es/

The free online version of the Madrid daily paper.

French

Le Monde Diplomatique

http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/

Chinese

Chinese Language News and Magazines
http://libraries.mit.edu/guides/types/flnews/chinese.html

From MIT Libraries

Chinese News and Newspapers
http://www.lib.duke.edu/ias/eac/chnsp.htm

From Duke University, Perkins Library

German

German-Language Newspapers and Other News Sources
http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7Ewess/wessnews.html

From the WESS/ACRL German Studies Web

Foreign Language News and Newspapers
http://libraries.mit.edu/guides/types/flnews/german.html

From MIT Libraries

Japanese

Japanese Newspapers
http://library.duke.edu/research/subject/guides/japan/primary/newspapers/index.html

From Duke University, Perkins Library

Russian

Russian magazines and newspapers at Tutt Library

http://www.ColoradoCollege.edu/Library/Course/ID/Russian/RusNews.html

Russian Language News and Magazines
http://libraries.mit.edu/guides/types/flnews/russian.html

From MIT Libraries

See also:
Online Reference Shelf: Current News
Online Reference Shelf: USA Newspapers
Online Reference Shelf: Colorado Newspapers
Online Reference Shelf: CC Newspapers

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