News from around the world sorted by region and country

News and analysis of events on the African continent

• Online counterpart to the paper newsletter published every two weeks
• Links to book reviews, media and events, and special reports
• Browse articles by country or search by keyword
• Sign up to receive email alerts every 2 weeks of latest headlines, extra news,and commentaries 

Articles are unsigned; confidentiality of correspondents is maintained for their safety.

NOTE: NWC only has a 2-license subscription. If you can not get in, please check back later.

Archive of Americana

• Pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, government documents, and ephemera
• Browse a single collection, or do full-text searches across multiple collections.
• Search by date/era; article type; place of publication; newspaper title.

• Date range varies with each magazine but the latest any goes back to is 1993.

Historical coverage of U.S. and Canada from prehistory to the present

• Abstracts and some links to full-text articles
• Option to expand search to cover world history including U.S. and Canada
• Limit search English only or expand to French, German, Russian, and Spanish

Select CLIO Notes to browse chronologies and brief summaries of significant events and historical themes.

American History in Video is a collection that includes roughly 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles. Viewers have the ability to drill down in seconds to find the footage of interest from thousands of hours of video on historical events, people, and key turning points in American history. The collection is a collaboration with A&E Television Networks and features some of its most important documentaries from The History Channel and Biography.

Historical coverage ranges from the early history of Native Americans to the 1988 Vincennes Affair in the Persian Gulf. Biographical coverage ranges from the eighteenth century to present day.

Browse and search the collection by historical era, event, year, people, place, and subject. Use video clip-making tools, embedded links, and user-created playlists to enhance your classroom presentations.

Scholarly profiles of 20,000 men and women whose lives have shaped our nation

• Illustrations
• Hyperlinked cross-references and links to select Web sites
• Bibliographies
• Articles from the Oxford Companion to United States History

A vast resource of topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that combine the best of legacy microfilms from Gale and Primary Source Media and new, never-before-filmed collections. Specifically developed to address the needs of individual scholars, universities and organizations, Archives Unbound is unique not only for its expansive, multi-disciplinary content but also for the distinct new intuitive search platform by which you access it.

Access includes:

Afghanistan and the U.S., 1945-1963: Records of the U.S. State Department

Papers of the Nixon Administration: The President's Confidential and Subject files, 1969-1974

Records of the Persian Gulf War

The Business Monitor International database provides financial and geopolitical analyses, ratings, risk assessments and forecasts of 179 countries and 22 industry sectors. Topics include: country risk, financial markets, company intelligence, defense & security, infrastructure, oil & gas, and telecommunications. Each topic contains news, analysis, and downloadable reports meant to inform decision-makers in financial and corporate institutions, industry, and government.

Federated search engine: searches up to 17 resources at one time

• Search the online book catalog (via MERLN) and multiple databases simultaneously
• Search by subject area or select one or more databases
• Perform keyword searches, selecting basic or advanced search
• Combine terms using Boolean operators, and; or; not
• Use quotation marks around phrases

A writing style manual from the University of Chicago Press that corresponds to the print volume found in the Reference Collection and on the Open Reserve Shelf (Z 253 U69 2003)

• A manual on style, grammar, usage, spelling, capitalization, hyphenation, and punctuation
• Rules for crafting footnotes and compiling bibliographies for both print and electronic works

NOTE: NWC only has a 5-license subscription. If you cannot get in, please check back later.

Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities

A comprehensive geographical dictionary

• Brief descriptions and lists of geographical places and physical features around the globe
• Searchable by name of place, type of place, or keyword
• Includes:
  • The political world—major geographic regions, states, cities, villages, neighborhoods, and special districts
  • The physical world—continents, oceans, lakes, islands, peninsulas, atolls, mountains, canyons, deserts, valleys, glaciers, and volcanoes
  • Special places—national parks, monuments, historic and archeological sites, airports, dams, nuclear plants, mines, stadiums, and military bases.

Scholarly materials on politics and international relations

• Full text of working papers, policy briefs, conference proceedings and links to Web sources
• Journal abstracts, book summaries, country data, and economic indicators

CIAO Focus is a monthly feature that highlights a current international issue with links to relevant documents.

Political, economic, social, and environmental data on 192 countries

• Key country data; country flags; boundaries, and ethnic divisions
• Thematic/political/physical maps; currency converter tools
• International hotspots; daily news coverage and forecasts from regional sources/li>
• Country rankings from the United Nation’s Human Development Index and Freedom House’s Freedom in the World

CountryWatch Elections Central focused solely on international elections.

Here, one can access:

• A comprehensive list of past and upcoming international presidential and parliamentary elections around the world;
• Election Profiles which cover dates 2009 to 2014;
• Country Profiles with overview of the countries in which elections are held, including the current government structure; and, extensive coverage on elections in the United States, including the 2008 and 2012 elections.

Credo Reference hosts more than 550 reference titles that you can search or browse by topic.

Credo Reference offers:

• Tools to quickly map your paper topic
• Citable sources for your bibliography 
• Provide thousands and thousands of images, charts, graphs, diagrams and more

Four periodicals are included in the East View Information Services database:

Each week The Current Digest of the Chinese Press presents a digestible collection of articles from key Chinese newspapers on such topics as:

• politics, international relations, security, economics, business, public health, environment, education, culture and more.
• Articles are selected from a wide variety of sources in China, all of which are explicitly targeted on a domestic – not foreign – audience.
• Each article is carefully translated into English, with great attention given to conveying "the sense and spirit" of the Chinese text.

Updates the Library’s holdings of the quarterly printed index
(Ref Z 1223 Z7 D4) and the microfiche collection (microfiche 1-2)

• Previously classified documents from post-World War II era through the 1970s, many with the original stamps, scribbles, and smudges
• Full-text memoranda; reports; letters; cables; and assorted documents

Primary documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945

• Diverse collections organized by country, event, or topic

• Chronologies; glossaries; subject bibliographies

Click Collections Guide for a list and description of the various collections.

Public STINET: Scientific & Technical Information Network

• Unclassified defense information
• Data on a wide range of defense and defense-related topics
• Technical reports and contractor studies, many in full-text PDF format
• Student papers originating at the various service schools
• Naval War College JMO papers

Digital versions of books from a broad range of subject areas and topics

• Full-text electronic versions of published books.
• Search by author, title, subject, keyword, publisher, or ISBN
• eBook titles are indexed in the NWC Library Catalog

Print or save single pages, one page at a time.

American Council of Learned Societies digitized books in the humanities and area studies

• Fully integrated, cross-searchable format: hypertext links for efficient navigation through text, bibliographies, endnotes, citations, and appendices
• Browse books by author, title, or subject; perform keyword and Boolean searches
• Find text and graphics; perform complex string searches for names, dates, phrases, or concepts

View text; save citations; print or e-mail, one page at a time.

EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) is an online research tool that "pulls together" almost all of our Library resources so that they can be explored using a single search box. In other words, rather than searching the Library Catalog for books and a database such as Academic Search Complete for journal articles, you can do an EDS search and get results which include books, e-books, journal articles, and government documents in one list. In fact, you could think of EDS as the Library’s version of Google.

Intelligence, security, and counter-terrorism issues

• Full text
• Journal articles; reference material
• Country reports, news feeds, and Web-based information on terrorism and security
• Expert analyses and reports
• Recent developments across the international political, military, economic, social and technical spectrum
• Current biographies

Military and defense related periodicals, pamphlets, and newsletters

• Select Military & Government Collection (option to select Security and Counter Terrorism Reference Center and to search both databases simultaneously)
• Search for a specific title or browse a particular periodical
• Publications indexed in this database include Air Force Comptroller, Army Reserve Magazine, Defence Studies, Global Security Review, JFQ: Joint Force Quarterly, Military Technology, National Review, Combat Edge, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Foreign Affairs, and Naval Forces

Print or save single pages, one page at a time.

Current economic, political, and business news around the globe

• ViewsWire: Highlights and analyses of more than 250 economic, political, and market developments around the world; navigatable by country; updated daily
• Executive Briefing: Management analysis and advice
• Risk Briefing: Analyses, forecasts, alerts, and background data covering a wide range of risk factors in 60 major markets/countries; updated daily
• Industry Briefing: 5-year forecasts and news analysis for 8 key industries

Comprehensive work on a wide range of topics in international law

• Peer-reviewed articles written by legal scholars and practitioners world-wide
• Articles are listed alphabetically, by subject, and by author and  are accompanied by selected bibliographies and document references

Journal articles and reports in education

Regional and country information

• Country history, geography, economics, government, society & media and business & commerce
• Comparative statistics on area, population, agriculture, industry and finance for specific countries
• In-depth information on the United Nations and its related bodies as well as on approximately 60 other major organizations

Europa World Plus is the online version of Europa's key reference works. Included are the Regional Surveys of the World series which are also found in paper format in the library.

Describes events, people, issues, facts, and figures in the news

• Coverage from 1940 to the present
• Maps, photographs, historic documents
• Overviews of key issues, newsmakers, and events

This is the online version of Facts on File World News Digest (REF. D 410 .F3).

Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1956 - 1996 is an archive of foreign broadcasts and news, translated into English from media sources outside the United States.

FBIS is a comprehensive and fully searchable full-text database of openly available news and reports from:

For open source intelligence 1996 to present, register for an Open Source account at http://www.opensource.gov. Accounts are available to U.S. federal, state and local government employees and contractors.

World business news, commentary, and analysis

First time users will be asked to setup a FREE account. Follow instructions on the screen.

• 3-week searchable archive
• Easy navigation via table of contents and page thumbnails
• Direct access to sections, pages, and articles: zoom in/zoom out feature
• Click on the page corner to flip the page.

 FT.com

• Updated daily with 5-year searchable archive
• Special reports including assessments on countries, industrial sectors and business topics
• Interactive content: videos, blogs, podcasts, and graphics

A resource for information on various types of published material

• Contains 12 separate databases
• Journal and magazine articles (ArticleFirst)
• Worldwide catalog of books (WorldCat)
• Indexes of - Latin American journals and medical journals
• Education journals and reports (ERIC)
• World Almanac

A defense and aerospace news service

• Global coverage of events in the military and aerospace fields
• Sources include print journals and Internet-based news sites
• Updated daily
• E-mail alerts available

International news and reports

• Politics, economics, culture, business, science, technology, and the environment
• Translated into English from foreign broadcasts, news agency transmissions, wire services, newspapers, magazines, and government documents
• Africa, Asia, Europe, the former Soviet Union, the Pacific Rim, Central and South America, and the Middle East
• Content: 1996 to present

A weekly publication, the Globalist, Naval War College Executive Edition, explores new trends and risks emerging in the global economy and looks closely at the agendas of pivotal nations and other forces that shape interactions between key global players.

• Quick factual inputs; leading-edge analysis; assumption-challenging perspectives;out-of-the-box thinking; thought-provoking features
• Information from more than 200 sources, ranging from leading newspapers and magazines to important government agencies, NGOs and think tanks

• Global economy
• American economy
• European economy
• Asian economy
• In Focus: A special topic each week
• Quote of the week

Web site of the U.S. Government Printing Office

• Finding tool for publications from the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the U.S. government, 1990s to present
• Links to full-text of publications such as the Budget of the United States, the Federal Register (including executive orders and presidential proclamations), Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, the Congressional Record, public laws, the U.S. Code, and materials relating to the Supreme Court

Search by agency, title, subject, keyword, or click on "Advanced Search" for more options.

A legal database of American and international law materials.

• Full-text articles from over 600 legal journals
• Most cited law journals, international and non-U.S. law journals
• Treaties and agreements library including Treaties in Force
• U.S. Federal Legislative History Library
• U.S. Presidential Library
• U.S. Supreme Court Library

Historical events from 1450 to the present

• Global coverage excluding North America
• Abstracts of periodical articles and book reviews

Note: Search the database America: History and Life for North American historical research.

Homeland security strategy, policy and research documents published by:

• Federal, state and local government agencies
• International governments and institutions
• Research institutions, universities, think tanks

Information on conflicts throughout the world

• Up-to-date analysis of over 70 conflicts
• Background information and latest conflict development
• Statistics include number of fatalities, weapons used, and economic costs
• Annual reports on each conflict and regularly updated timelines

Produced by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS).

DoD news.

• Up-to-date defense related information and news
• Click on the link on the left side of the screen to access these newsletters:
  • Inside the Army
  • Inside the Navy
  • Inside the Air Force
  • Inside the Pentagon

International Affairs is published six times/year with issues dating from 1954 to present. It offers an analysis of foreign policy and international security issues. 

Military and defense information

• Country by country internal and external security and threat assessments
• Defense news and analysis
• Order of battle information for armies, navies and air forces worldwide
• Information on military systems and equipment
• Geopolitical and terrorism intelligence

Terrorist news updated daily and allows for the tracking of terrorist activity by region or country.

• Search by region, country, terrorist group, tactic, target type, scale of attack, and target ownership
• Attack records include details of damage, casualty statistics, and historical trends
• Records of statements by terrorist/insurgent groups
• Indicators and warnings issued by government agencies
• Latitude-longitude geo-codes provided for mapping terrorist attack/threat patterns

Jiefangjun Bao (PLA Daily) is the official newspaper of the People's

An archive of scholarly journal literature in the humanities.

• Academic disciplines that include history, political science, and law, as well as Middle Eastern, Latin American, Asian, African, and Slavic studies
• Content includes the first issuance of each journal title included in the database
• Current to within the last 2-5 years

A political archive of world news: concise, accurate, objective, and unbiased accounts of the world's most important political, social, and economic events 1931 to present.

• Diplomacy and international agreements
• Elections and changes of government
• Wars
• Treaties
• Terrorist events
• Issues of internal security
• Actions by the UN and other international organizations
• Natural disasters
• Environmental issues

Political and economic intelligence on Latin America.

• Content: 1967 to present
• Includes the newsletter Latin American Weekly Report
• Includes regional, country, and special reports

Special Insight Papers:

National and international newspapers; business and legal information

• Articles from thousands of domestic and international newspapers
• Transcripts from domestic and international news wire services and media reports
• Newsletters and magazine articles, law review articles
• Securities and Exchange Commission reports and filings
• References to the medical literature via the Medline database

Note: For defense & military-related magazine articles, it is best to search the ProQuest database.

Mango is an online language-learning system that can help you learn languages like Spanish, French, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Mandarin Chinese, Greek, Italian, Russian and more.

All areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing

Military Education and Research Library Network

• Index to military periodicals
• Military Policy Awareness Links (MiPALs)
• White papers from more than 60 nations worldwide
• Digitized collections of student papers

The Military Education and Research Library Network (MERLN) provides access to the online catalogs and to the library homepages of the U.S. military's educational schools and its service academies.

Online version of the same title

Open-source global defense information

• Force structure of the armed forces of the world’s nations
• Overviews of major weapons systems
• Order of battle
• Peacekeeping missions
• R&D summaries

Military Thoughtis a quarterly publication of the Russian Federation of the Ministry of Defense, 1992-present, and contains articles on Russian military reform, tactics and strategy of modern combat, experience of counterterrorist operations, and international security. 

Online version of newspaper of same name

Introducing Digital Microfilm from ProQuest. Extend the reach of archival newspaper content from the film reader to the web, through the use of an online interface.

OECD iLibrary contains all the publications and datasets released by OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development), International Energy Agency (IEA), Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), OECD Development Centre, PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), and International Transport Forum (ITF) since 1998 - over 1 200 journal issues, 3 300 working papers, 2 900 multi-lingual summaries, 7 700 e-book titles, 16 000 tables and graphs, 25 000 chapters and articles, and 480 complete databases with more than 4.5 billion data points.

Online bibliographies in the social sciences and humanities with links to reliable sources of information on Websites, and in books, archives, and data sets

• International Relations
• Islamic Studies
• Latin American Studies
• Military History

Biographies of important persons from the British Isles

• Over 55,000 biographies
• More than 10,000 portraits
• Weekly features
• Companion reference material

The complete text of the original 33 volume work and all its supplements updated 3 times a year.

Comprehensive resource on Islamic studies with an emphasis on modern Islam

• Qur’an verse lookup
• A-Z reference entries
• Primary source documents translated into English
• Scholarly articles and essays
• Timelines of Islamic and world events
• Image library
• Date converter from Western to Islamic
• Suggestions for further reading

Unabridged bilingual French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, and Chinese dictionaries

• Millions of words, phrases, and idioms
• Usage examples and illustrative phrases
• Grammar guidance, verb tables, and pronunciation charts
• Notes on life and culture
• Words of the Day
• Correspondence templates including sample letters, CVs and resumes
• Updated every six months

Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS) is the bibliographic index to the social sciences

• References to journal articles and books
• Governmental documents and reports
• Reports from public and private organizations
• Statistics and directories

Some of the references are in languages other than English. An associated database grouped with PAIS is the Periodical/Publisher Information Database that provides periodical and publisher information for documents found in the PAIS database.

Index of papers presented at conferences worldwide

Foreign and domestic public policy

• Weekly updates
• Think tanks and research groups
• Documents and reports
• Gray literature

Complete bibliographic citations are given as are links to the full-text reports.

Index of worldwide conference proceedings

This database serves as the central resource for researchers at all levels. Covers more than 160 subject areas including business, economics, military, news and world affars, science, telecommunications, etc. through scholarly journals, newspapers, reports, books, magazines, trade publications and videos.

Includes: ProQuest Research Library; ProQuest Military; ProQuest Asian Business; ABI/Inform Complete; Wall Street Journal; OxResearch; and many more.

Documents of the Senate and the House of Representatives

• Bills, laws
• Testimony, committee prints
• Hearings, reports
• Legislative histories

The corresponding printed index and abstracts are available as CIS (Congressional Information Service) Index and Abstracts (Ref KF49 C62 1970- ).

19th to early 20th century newspapers

• Christian Science Monitor (1908--1991)
• New York Times (1851--2001)
• Wall Street Journal ( 1889--1987)
• Washington Post (1877—1988)

NOTE: Search Lexis-Nexis Academic for current newspaper articles.

The database offers full page and article images with searchable text going back to each newspaper's first issue.
The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

References to articles on U.S. history and culture found in English language periodicals, 1890-1982

• Broad subject coverage in mainstream, popular magazines
• Subjects include: popular culture, history, foreign affairs, biography, medicine, news, politics, religion, science, sports, technology, and travel
• Electronic version of the paper index, Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature (Ref Z 5051 R7)

Lloyd’s Register of Ships

• Details on 160,000 ships over 99 gross tons
• Inspections, detentions
• Ship’s name and former names
• Cargo capacities, gear and machinery
• Shipbuilder information with comprehensive fleet listings

NOTE:
(1) This database is for use only in the Library

• ID & Password are required
• See a NWC Reference Librarian for access

(2) NWC has only 5 user accounts.

Strategic forecasting and intelligence

• Country profiles
• Topical and regional net assessments
• Situation reports

STRATFOR is worldwide in scope and provides insights into international security issues, risk management, and global alliances.

 200 years of the Times (London)

• News articles, parliamentary reports, editorial opinion, obituaries, photos, advertising and classifieds.
• Keyword and relevance searching
• Browse by date feature allows you to find an individual issue of the newspaper and read through, page by page

• The Times (London) is not published on Sunday.
  The Sunday Times is a totally different newspaper and is not included in this database.
• The Times (London), 1985-present, is included in the Lexis-Nexis Academic database.

Multilingual International Treaty Database - Viadrina International Law Project

United Nations Index to UN Documents and Publications, 1945-current

• Many recent documents in full-text format
• Official Records
• Meeting records
• UN Treaty Series citations
• UN Sales Publications

For the full text of UN documents 1980 to present, see United Nations Documents and Publications (microform) Law Library Collection, microfiche 225.

See also the official United Nations Web Site.

Treaties and international agreements

• Status of multilateral treaties
• United Nations Treaty Series (UNTS)
• League of Nations Treaty Series
• Handbooks and summaries of practice

This collection also includes the text and status of recently deposited multilateral treaties, memorandums of understanding, and many other documents as well as rejections, withdrawals and reservations. It is important to note that searching this collection requires constantly turning off pop-up blocker.

Comprehensive listing of biographies from 21 Marquis volumes

• Over 1.4 million biographies from 1985 to the present
• International in scope
• Archive of Who Was Who in America from 1607-1985
• Daily updates

Who’s Who Online contains biographical profiles of accomplished individuals in a broad range of fields. Search by name or by other descriptors such as occupation, gender, birthplace, political affiliation, or college attended.

Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia and four almanacs

The e-Atlas of Global Development is a free, online, interactive tool, which maps and graphs more than 175 indicators from the World Bank's development database. Its launch coincides with the release of a new print edition of the Atlas of Global Development a concise and up-to-date reference for anyone interested in better understanding today's critical development issues.

• easily and quickly map and chart economic and social indicators
• compare country outcomes
• export customized, professional quality, full color maps and graphs
• create scalable maps, timeline graphing, and ranking tables
• import and export data and graphics

Describes events, people, issues, facts, and figures in the news

• Coverage from 1940 to the present
• Maps, photographs, historic documents
• Overviews of key issues, newsmakers, and events

World Politics Review (WPR) is a daily, online publication and resource for foreign policy professionals and readers with a serious interest in international politics and foreign affairs.

 WorldCat is a cooperative online catalog operated by the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) and contains the bibliographic records of more than 70,000 libraries in over 100 countries. More than 400 languages are represented.