World History (generally): News Sources

• Collection I: Over 160 journals from the UMI microfilm collection Early British Periodicals. Topics covered include literature, philosophy, history, science, the fine arts and the social sciences.
• Collection II: Over 300 journals from the UMI microfilm collections English Literary Periodicals and British Periodicals in the Creative Arts. Topics include literature, music, art, drama, archaeology and architecture.
• Collection III: Leading publications from the early 20th century, taken from the “Great Eight” illustrated periodicals. Topics include news, politics, miscellany, art, photography, literature, and satire.
• Collection IV : Eclectic mix of major popular titles from the 20th century.Topics include socialism, the labour movement, international affairs and conflicts, leisure, rural life, the arts, travel, empire, and childhood.

Cross-searchable with Current Digest of the Soviet Press (1949-1991) and Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press (1992-2010)

Imperial Periods Covered: 

• Meiji ([1868-1913] 1897-1912)
• Taishō (1912-1926)
• Shōwa (1926-1989)
• Heisei (1989-present)

Note: For coverage of similar material from 1984 to the present, use Academic Search Complete.

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Cross-searchable with Current Digest of the Soviet Press (1949-1991) and Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press (1992-2010)

• The North-China Herald (1850~1941) 北华捷报
• The North-China Daily News (1865~1951) 字林西报
• The North-China Desk Hong List (1872~1941) 字林西报行名录
• The Chinese Shipping List & Advertiser (1862~1872) 每日航运和商业新闻
• Hu Bao (1882~1908) 沪报
• Han Bao (1894~1900) 汉报
• Xiu Xian Bao (1898~1906) 消闲报

• This database covers issues published from 1923-2021. For earlier issues, search the Ogonek Digital Archive (St. Petersburg, 1899-1918) database.

• This database covers issues published from 1899-1918. For later issues, search the Ogonek Digital Archive (Moscow, 1923+) database.

The database is searchable in transliterated Russian or in Cyrillic.  All text is in Russian.

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It consists of four parts:

• Yomiuri Shimbun (読売新聞) contains Japanese language articles from Yomiuri Shimbun since 1986
• The Daily Yomiuri contains articles from the English language edition of the Yomiuri Shimbun English edition since 1989
• Jinbutsu (人物) is a Who's Who of current key persons in Japan
• Meiji Taisho Showa (明治・大正・昭 和) database contains the historic archive of scanned articles published during the period of 1874 to 1989
• Yomidasu Rekishikan also features four dictionaries, 国語辞書　英和辞書　 和英辞書 and イミダス (current words) to help you with your searching and reading, and two organizer folders, My kiji and My Kensaku to manage your search results.