International Newspapers and News Sources

The International Coalition on Newspapers (ICON) is a project to preserve and improve access to world newspapers. It includes a freely accessible database of bibliographic information for more newspapers around the world. It also includes lists of digitized U.S. and international newspaper titles, many of which are freely accessible online.

Access World News provides the html full text and, for some titles, the pdf "as printed" visual representation, of articles from a variety of national and international news sources, including newspapers, digital-native news websites, television and radio transcripts, blogs, college and university newspapers, journals, magazines, and some audio and video. Most international titles are English language. Dates of coverage vary from title to title, but primarily span the late 20th century to present.

Latin American Newspapers Series 1 includes 19th and 20th-century newspapers with access to diverse titles from Latin America, across a broad range of academic disciplines.

Caribbean Newspapers, 1718-1876 provides access to searchable digitized copies of newspapers printed in the Caribbean islands during the 18th and 19th centuries, primarily in English, with numerous titles in Spanish and French and some in Danish. Materials in this resource have been assembled from the holdings of the American Antiquarian Society.

British Library contains full runs of influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of 19th-century British society. Includes British Library Newspapers, Part I: 1800-1900; Part II: 1800-1900; Part III: 1741-1950; Part IV: 1732-1950; and Part V: 1746-1950

Provides full-text access to back issues of The Times newspaper. Dates of coverage: 1785 to 2006.

Irish Newspaper Archive contains 40 full-text searchable digitized Irish newspapers, with issues spanning the 1700s to current day, as well as the Radical & Political Newspapers collection of over 100 publications related to the political unrest in Ireland in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Newspapers with both local and national scope and circulation are included and new titles and issues added regularly.

The African Newspapers database includes 19th and 20th century newspapers, and offers access to diverse titles from Africa across a range of academic disciplines.

Mideast Wire contains English translations of news from Arab countries, Iran, and the Arab diaspora.

Founded in 1875, *Al-Ahram * is one of the most prominent Arabic newspapers in the Middle East, including its legacy as Egypt’s most authoritative and influential national daily. This is the newspaper's digitized and OCRed run.*

This resource supplies access to the daily newspaper People's Daily (Renmin Ribao, Ren Min Ri Bao, 人民日报) from the People's Republic of China. Access dates back to 1946 and extends to the present.

The database of Chinese Modern Newspapers and Periodicals includes the full-text of Chinese periodicals from the late Qing Dynasty and Republican period.

This historical newspaper provides insight into Chinese political and social life during the turbulent 120 year period from 1832 to 1953 with 12 English-language Chinese historical newspapers. Included are critical perspectives on the ending of more than 2,000 years of imperial rule in China, the Taiping Rebellion, the Opium Wars with Great Britain, the Boxer Rebellion and the events leading up to the 1911 Xinhai Revolution, and the subsequent founding of the Republic of China. In addition to the article content, the full-image newspapers offer searchable access to advertisements, editorials, cartoons, and classified ads that illuminate history.

Japan Times Archives provides full-text searching and page images of the English-language newspaper Japan Times from 1897-2022 (Dec.). Japan Times is the oldest English language newspaper in Japan.

Choson Ilbo Archive (조선일보 아카이브 ) contains current and past articles from this major Korean newspaper, the Choson Daily Newspaper. Archives are from its beginning issue in 1920. The database is searchable by keyword, journalist, date, and more.

The North Korean Serials collection contains digitized serials published in North Korea that are held at the Library of Congress. The collection includes serials from 1948-1964 and covers a variety of topics and offer insights into multiple facets of the country, including economics, law, politics, military affairs, society, history, agriculture, and education. In addition to their value for social science research, these materials provide historical context for the study of contemporary North Korea.

Russian Central Newspapers contains the most important Russian newspapers currently being being published in Moscow. Searching can be done across newspapers.

Russian Regional Newspapers contains newspapers from all seven Federal Districts of the Russian Federation and includes coverage of local issues of Moscow and St. Petersburg. Searching can be done across newspapers.