Readex

Readex, a division of NewsBank, offers libraries access to collections of primary source research materials in the humanities and the social sciences - covering American and Global history, literature, culture and daily life.

Readex® digital collections include:

Archive of Americana®
Unprecedented online access to historical book, broadsides, newspapers, government publications and more. This growing family of fully searchable printed materials put tens of millions of pages of primary documents at researchers fingertips.

Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports
Has been the US principal record of political and historical open source intelligence for nearly 70 years. This online collection of FBIS Daily Reports 1941-1996 is 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.

World Newspaper Archive
Representing the largest fully searchable collection of historical newspapers from around the globe, World Newspaper Archive (WNA) was created in partnership with the Center for Research Libraries. WNA includes historical newspapers published in Africa, Europe , Latin America, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Middle East and other regions.

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Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports, JISC Collection Selection

The Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Report has been purchased by JISC Collections and is now available FREE OF CHARGE to UK Higher and Further Education institutions and Research Councils.

Covering the period 1974-1996 in the Middle East and North Africa, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and Eastern Europe, the JISC selection of the FBIS Daily Reports includes a wealth of transcripts of broadcasts and news from around the world – all translated into the English Language.

For full details of how to subscribe, see
www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/catalogue/fbis

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Archive of Americana

Foreign Broadcast Information Service

World Newspaper Archive.

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