GSU Library Research Guides: Newspapers: International Newspapers

Current International News

For current international news, try the following databases:

Global Newsstream This link opens in a new window
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Global coverage of newspapers and newswires from the U.S., Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Australia.
Factiva This link opens in a new window
A business information and research tool used to locate information on a variety of topics, including politics, current events, trends and government data.
Provides limited access to Atlanta Business Chronicle. Login information is below.
Warning: Use of the Factiva service is restricted to reader access of the content for research and education purposes only. Text mining and analytics of the content is not permitted.
TO LOGIN TO FACTIVA
Go to: https://my.openathens.net/
Enter and select “Georgia State University Library” in the “Find My Institution” search box
The login information for Factiva will be displayed. If prompted, use the username and password provided.
NOTES:
- The Factiva link will not work if bookmarked. You must access via MyAthens each time.
- Our Factiva license is limited to 10 simultaneous users. If you see an error message indicating “username and password is already in use,” it means the maximum number of simultaneous users has been reached.
- When you have finished your research, please log out so that other users may access the system.

Selected Web Collections (Not Comprehensive!)

Paper of Record
Includes digital copies of newspapers from the UK, the USA, Australia, the Bahamas, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Ecuador, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, and Spain. Coverage of historical Mexican newspapers is especially extensive. Registration is required, but access is free. Be aware that many of the runs included are for very short time periods only, and that many of the longer runs are noted as being partial.
Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press
University of Arizona project with publications from Tucson, El Paso, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sonora, Mexico, mid1800s-1907s.
Caribbean Digital Newspaper Library
Part of the Digital Library of the Caribbean, a cooperation of partners within the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean that provides users with access to Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials held in archives, libraries, and private collections.
Trove: Digitized Newspapers from the National Library of Australia
full text of Australian newspapers and magazines (1802+).

International Newspaper Collections Available @ GSU

Available to GSU affiliates only.

Global Newsstream This link opens in a new window
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Global coverage of newspapers and newswires from the U.S., Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Australia.
Access World News Research Collection 2024 This link opens in a new window
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Research diverse perspectives, topics and trends that align with curricular areas such as Political Science, English, Sociology, Humanities, Business, International Studies and more. Features over 14,000 reliable, credible information from a wide variety of international, national, and local news sources. Coverage from the 1980s to current, updated daily. Click here to watch video on how to conduct a basic search.
Burney Collection Newspapers, 17th - 18th Century This link opens in a new window
Collection of British news media--newspapers, pamphlets, and broadsides--from the 17th and 18th century.
South Asian Newspapers, 1864 - 1922 (World Newspaper Archive) This link opens in a new window
Provides coverage of numerous newspapers published in South Asia between 1864 and 1922. It features titles published in India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka that are cross-searchable with other World Newspaper Archive and Readex resources.
Latin American Newspapers, 1805 - 1922 (World Newspaper Archive) This link opens in a new window
Provides access to over 35 searchable newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries from Latin American countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela, covering the evolution of Latin American culture and daily life from 1805 to 1922.
African Newspapers, 1800 - 1922 (World Newspaper Archive) This link opens in a new window
Provides access to more than 40 fully searchable African newspapers published between 1800 and 1922. African Newspapers features titles from Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. Languages include English, German, French, Portuguese, Afrikaans, Xhosa, Sotho, and others.

International News Sources

Selected sources for international news. These may focus on current news rather than historical news, but can be useful for identifying newspaper titles.

LANIC (Latin American Network Information Center: Newspapers and News)
Part of University of Texas' LANIC site. *No longer being updated, but still useful for identifying titles of Latin American news sources.*
Africa South of the Sahara: African Newspapers
Part of Stanford University's Africa South of the Sahara website.
Middle East Studies: News Sources
Part of GSU Library's Middle East Studies research guide.
World Newspapers

International Coalition on Newspapers (ICON)

Search the International Coalition on Newspapers (ICON) (a project of the Center for Research Libraries) for digitized international newspapers.

ICON lists newspapers by country and US state.

Foreign and Ethnic Newspapers

Historical Jewish Press, 1943-1988. Includes Jewish newspapers from various countries, including the US.
The Center for Research Libraries (CRL)holds extensive runs of more than 6,000 foreign newspaper titles and 500 U. S. ethnic newspaper titles. GSU users can get these materials via Interlibrary Loan.
Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press. Includes publications fom Tucson, El Paso, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sonora, Mexico from mid1800s to 1970s.