World News

This comprehensive news collection is ideal for exploring issues and events at the local, regional, national and international levels. Its diverse source types include print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts, and videos. Use it to explore a specific event or to compare a wide variety of viewpoints on topics such as politics, business, health, sports, cultural activities, and people. Content is easily searched and sorted through an intuitive, map-based interface.

Search Shortcuts:

• Star-Ledger Collection
• Philadelphia Inquirer Collection
• USA - New Jersey
• World
• USA
• Major Metro Titles
• Press of Atlantic City, The (NJ)
• Record, The (Hackensack, NJ)
• Access Business News
• Press of Atlantic City Collection
• America's News Magazines

• Essential primary sources for exploring the people, places, and events that shaped the nation
• Thousands of rare historical American newspapers offering a rich chronicle of daily life in America
• Curated into collections to provide a broad range of historical, regional, and political perspectives from 1690 to the early 20th century

ProQuest's Global Newsstream enables users to search the most recent global news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring content from newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-text format. This product provides one of the largest collections of news from the US, Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. All titles are cross-searchable on the ProQuest platform allowing researchers easy access to multiple perspectives, resources, and languages on the topic they are researching.

Includes:

Canadian Newsstream

• This database offers unparalleled access to the full text of over 190 Canadian newspapers from Canada's leading publishers. This full-text database includes the complete available electronic backfile for most newspapers, providing full access to the articles, columns, editorials, and features published in each. Some backfiles date as far back as the late 1970s.

Global Breaking Newswires

• In the modern news world, newswires are the chief source of timely news and, with increasing pressures on the traditional news industry, newswires are often the only news coverage for many large regions of the globe. Global Breaking Newswires is the premier library news product providing timely access to the best newswire content available from around the globe for the modern researcher as well as a growing archive of news indexed and accessible through the familiar & popular research functionality of the ProQuest platform.

International Newsstream

• International Newsstream provides the most recent news content outside of the US and Canada, with archives that stretch back decades featuring newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-text format. ProQuest International Newsstream provides information from more than 660 of the world's top newspapers, including The Times (London), The Bangkok Post, El Norte, Financial Times, The Guardian, Jerusalem Post, South China Morning Post, The Daily Telegraph, Asian Wall Street Journal, and the BBC Monitoring series of publications.

US Newsstream

• US Newsstream enables users to search the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format. For academic and public libraries, US Newsstream offers exclusive access to the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, and co-exclusive access (with Factiva) to The Wall Street Journal. US Newsstream also offers one of the largest collections of local and regional newspapers and is cross-searchable on the ProQuest platform.

This Historical Newspaper (New York Times) provides genealogists, researchers, and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society, and events of the time.

Coverage: 1851 - 2015

Issues & Controversies helps students and researchers understand today’s crucial issues by exploring hundreds of hot topics in politics, government, business, society, education, and popular culture. Presented in a balanced, pro/con format, each article presents the key facts, arguments, history, and current context—an ideal resource for research papers, debate preparation, and persuasive writing assignments.

Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for hundreds of national (U.S.), international and regional newspapers. In addition, it offers television and radio news transcripts from major networks.

Content Includes:

• More than 60 full-text national (U.S.) and international newspapers
• More than 300 full-text regional (U.S.) newspapers

The Ocean City Free Public Library Newspaper Archive is now only available as in-library-access only, similar to many of our other online databases. These changes have been put in place due to copyright restrictions.

The content has remained the same, with access to:

• Daily Sentinel
• Daily Reporter
• Ledger
• Ocean City News
• Ocean City Sentinel
• Cape May County Gazette
• Somers Point Herald
• Ocean City Sentinel Ledger

This database provides comprehensive full-text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers, and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.

TOPICsearch contains full text for over 150,961 articles from 475 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, EBSCO's unparalleled collection of periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.

For more than 75 years, World News Digest has been a go-to resource for context and background on key issues and events in the news, presenting more than eight decades of authoritative news summaries and background articles. Hundreds of news sources, governments, and organizations—including ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, NBC News, NPR, and the parliaments of Canada and Australia—rely on World News Digest for a broader view of the issues that matter today.

Content Includes:

• The World Almanac
• Topic-based research support
• News headlines
• Facts and figures researchers can trust
• Information in context
• Videos
• News Media Roundups
• Landmark Events in History
• Browse news by country, people, or topic
• Facts and statistics
• U.S. Presidential Elections
• Curriculum Tools
• Background and overviews
• Authoritative sources