5. Foreign Newspaper Indexes
Links to Non-US Newspaper Archives on the Web.
World News Connection (6/1994- ) includes FBIS (Foreign Broadcast Information Service) and JPRS (Joint Publications Research Service) translations, including newspaper articles. FBIS and JPRS translate selected foreign broadcasts and newspaper articles of interest to the U. S. government. Earlier FBIS and JPRS translations are located in the Government Documents Department in Lamont.
Africa
African newspaper index, 1981-1982
LOCATION: Documents (Lamont): Index Film 30.315
AllAfrica.com (1997- ) provides news stories in French and English from African and other news sources.
Cape Town English press index for the year, 1871-1875
LOCATION: Documents (Lamont): Microfiche S 448
Egypt Daily.com provides links to news stories on Egypt.
Mail & guardian index (1986- ) indexes the Southern African (Johannesburg) ed. of The Manchester guardian weekly. Formerly (before 1993) Weekly mail & guardian index and Weekly mail index.
LOCATION: Widener Newspaper Microfilm Reading Room: INDEX Film NC 707
Asia and Arab World
For newspapers in Chinese, Japanese and Korean, see the Online Resources guides under Conducting Research on the Harvard-Yenching web page.
China Core Newspaper Database (2000- ) offers full text of 673 Chinese national, regional and local newspapers or periodicals that appear at least on a weekly basis. Special newspapers relate to legal issues in China, the environment, foreign policy, literary production, economics and finance, education and various areas of science and technology.
Index to China daily, 1990-1993.
LOCATION: Harvard-Yenching: Consult Circulation Desk for monthly ed. (at Western Section)
LOCATION: Widener: WID-LC AI21.C454 I53x
Times of India, 1973-1979.
LOCATION: Widener Newspaper Microfilm Reading Room: INDEX Film NC 64
Jerusalem Post, Oct. 1988- .
LOCATION: Documents (Lamont): JCDROM 03
Index to English language newspapers published in Korea, 1896-1937.
LOCATION: Harvard-Yenching: (W) Ref AI3.E38
LOCATION: Harvard-Yenching: (W) FW57 Microfilm
LOCATION: Widener: WID-LC AI3.E38 1966bx
Multidata Online (1994- ). “General News" includes full text for 52 Arab World dailies and weeklies in Arabic, English and French. Arabic and English interfaces.
Pakistan Observer (now Bangladesh Observer), 1974- . A subject index.
LOCATION: Widener: WID-LC AI21.P34 K48 Library has: v. 1-2
Pakistan. Bibliographical index of the Daily Tribune, Lahore, 1931-1941: comments of political personalities on major political issues, captions of major political events & political parties, selected editorials and notes & comments on Indian politics.
LOCATION: Widener: WID-LC DS480.45.Z99 M57 x, 1978 F
Taiwan. Newspapers in Taiwan searches headlines and excerpts for several papers. Full text is available for most included papers 2002 to the present. One paper has full text 1928-49.
Australia/New Zealand
Australian Newspapers Beta: Historic Australian Newspapers, 1803-1954 includes 26 digitized Australian and Tasmanian newspapers. Each paper is currently available for an often short segment of the 1803-1954 span.
Papers Past: New Zealand newspapers and periodicals includes over 40 19th century digitized New Zealand newspapers.
Canada
Canadian index (1993- ) indexes largely periodicals but includes a few newspapers.
LOCATION: Widener: WID-LC AI3.C239x
Continues: Canadian newspaper index/Canadian news index, 1977-92.
LOCATION: Widener Newspaper Microfilm Reading Room: Index Film NC 4
Canadian news facts: The indexed digest of Canadian current events, 1967-2001
LOCATION: Widener: WID-LC F1001.C2767x
Includes:
- Charlestown Guardian & Patriot
- Edmonton Journal
- Daily Gleanor (Fredericton)
- Halifax Chronicle Herald
- Le Devoir
- La Presse
- Le Soleil
- Montreal Gazette
- New York Times
- Citizen
- Leader-Post (Regina)
- Telegraph Journal (St. John)
- Evening Telegram (St. John's)
- Financial Post
- Globe and Mail
- Toronto Star
- Toronto Sun
- Canadian Press Agency
- Vancouver Sun
- Times Colonist (Victoria)
- Winnipeg Free Press
Index de l'actualite, 1972- .
LOCATION: Documents (Lamont): INDEX Film 10.15 Indexes:
- Le Devoir (Montreal)
- La Presse (Montreal)
- Le Soleil (Quebec)
- Journal de Montréal
Montreal. Index de La Presse, 1988-1990.
LOCATION: Widener Newspaper Microfilm Reading Room: Index Film NC 98
Montreal. Le Devoir index, 1966-1971.
LOCATION: Widener Newspaper Microfilm Reading Room: Index Film NC 191
List of Indexes
Checklist of indexes to Canadian newspapers, by Sandra Burrows. 1987.
LOCATION: Documents (Lamont): INDEX Film 5.53
Latin America
Latin American Newsstand (2005- ) provides full text of 41 newspapers from Puerto Rico and 11 Latin American countries. Some coverage back to 1995.
Europe
Austria
ANNO: Austrian Newspapers Online provides digitized newspapers, late 19th and early 20th century.
Innsbrucker Zeitungsarchiv (1960- ) offers full text file of clippings related to literature from German-language newspapers and other periodicals.
Baltic States
East View Universal Databases. CIS and Baltic Periodicals
CIS
East View Universal Databases. CIS and Baltic Periodicals
Denmark
Artikelbasen (1981- ) is a CD-ROM indexing larger articles from 8 nationwide Danish newspapers.
LOCATION: Widener: XVTS 26
Dansk artikelindeks: Aviser & tidsskrifter, 1979-1992.
LOCATION: Widener: WID-LC AI13.D26x
France
France-actualité, 1978-Ap. 1981. Indexes Le Figaro, L'Humanité, Le Monde
LOCATION: Documents (Lamont): INDEX Film 30.305
Gallica - La presse quotidienne includes numerous 19th-early 20th century newspapers. Currently includes Le Figaro (1830-1942), Le Temps (1861-1935), La Croix (1883-1944), L'Humanité (1904-1944), La Presse (1836-1858), and Le Journal des débats (1814-1912).
Le Monde is indexed by Les archives du Monde (free search, pay for full text) and a printed index.
LOCATION: Widener Newspaper Microfilm Reading Room: Index Film NC 53 (1944-51, 1958, 1965-68, 1979-81, 1989- )
Le Monde Diplomatique, 1954-1983.
LOCATION: Widener Newspaper Microfilm Reading Room: Index Film NC 53 5
Tables du journal Le Temps, 1861-1900. Le Temps continued by Le Monde
LOCATION: Widener Newspaper Microfilm Reading Room: Index Film NC 11
Germany
Deutsche Zeitschriften des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts. Microfiche-Volltext Edition. Hildesheim: Olms Neue Medien, ca. 25000 microfiches
Microforms (Lamont) | INDEX Microfiche W 4671 = Guides
Microforms (Lamont) | Microfiche W 4671
List of periodical titles, including newspapers and Supplement.
Innsbrucker Zeitungsarchiv (1960- ) offers full text file of clippings related to literature from German-language newspapers and other periodicals.
Taz, die Tageszeitung, 1986- . [CD-ROM ed. of: Tageszeitung (Berlin/Frankfurt au Main, Germany)].
LOCATION: Widener: Harvard Depository
Zeitungs-Index; Verzeichnis wichtiger Aufsatze aus deutschsprachigen Zeitungen, 1974- . German language papers incl. one from Vienna and two from Zurich.
LOCATION: Documents (Lamont): Index Film 30.15
Ireland
Index to biographical notices in the newspapers of Limerick, Ennis, Clonmel and Waterford, 1758-1821.
LOCATION: Microforms (Lamont) | Microfiche W 3132
Russia
Current digest of the Soviet press (1949-1992) indexes Pravda and Izvestia. It is indexed in PAIS (1986-92; source given in the abstract). Also in print:
LOCATION: Sci & Intl Affairs: DK266.C2x Library has: 1976-1993 Annual index, vol. 28 (1976)-v. 43 (1991).
LOCATION: Widener: Slav 1682.78.2
Current digest of the post-Soviet press (1992- ) is indexed in indexed in PAIS (1992- ; source given in the abstract) and in Academic Search Premier (7/1996- ; source not given in the record). Also available in print.
LOCATION: Law School: Annual index, vol. 44 (1992)- .
LOCATION: Widener: WID-LC D839.C872x Current issues: Periodicals Reading Room. Annual index, vol. 44 (1992)- .
LOCATION: Sci & Intl Affairs: DK266.C2x 1992 Annual index, vol. 44 (1992)- .
Letopis' gazetnykh statei, 1956- .
LOCATION: Russian Res Ctr:
LOCATION: Widener: Slav 590.154
Litopys hazetnykh statei: derzhavnyi bibliohrafichnyi pokazhchyk Ukrainy, 1966- .
LOCATION: Widener: Slav 3220.520.14
LOCATION: Microforms (Lamont): Microfiche SC 444
The Soviet world, 1948-1989 a bibliography of articles from the Soviet and Western press.
LOCATION: Microforms (Lamont): Microfiche W 4340 Library has: 612 microfiche
LOCATION: Microforms (Lamont): INDEX Microfiche W 4340 = Guide for 1948-1989
East View Universal Databases, (1999/2000- ) includes some English-language material and non-newspaper periodicals.
Spain
El Pais, Madrid (1976- ) offers searchable full text.
Veinticuatro diarios. Madrid, 1830-1900; articulos y noticias de escritores espanoles del siglo XIX.
LOCATION: Widener: Span 4035.70 Library has: 4 v.
United Kingdom
17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers were collected by Rev. Charles Burney (1757-1817) and augmented by the British Museum in 1818.
18th Century Journals: A Portal to Newspapers and Periodicals c1685-1815, includes some British colonial newspapers, e.g., Calcutta Gazette.
19th Century British Library Newspapers contains the full runs of forty-eight national and regional newspapers.
Local index of the Dumfries and Galloway standard and advertiser and its predecessors over 200 years.
Location: Widener WID-LC PN5139.D853 D8524x
v. 1. The Dumfries weekly journal, 1777-1833
v. 2. The Dumfries weekly journal, 1777-1833, addendum; The Dumfries times, 1833-1842; The Dumfries standard, 1843-1860
v. 3. The Dumfries courier, 1832 & 1833; The Dumfries standard, 1861-1880
v. 4. The Dumfries & Galloway standard and advertiser, 1881-1900
v. 5. The Dumfries & Galloway standard & advertiser, 1901-1910
v. 6. The Dumfries & Galloway standard & advertiser, 1911-1920
v. 7. The Dumfries & Galloway standard and advertiser, 1921-1925
v. 8. The Dumfries and Galloway standard and advertiser, 1926-1930
Financial times. Annual index, 1981- . Monthly index is available until the annual volume arrives.
LOCATION: Baker Business: Reading Room West Balcony Latest 5 years: Reference Index.
Manchester Guardian, 1842- .
LOCATION: Documents (Lamont): Film A 855 (1842-1928)
LOCATION: Documents (Lamont): Microfiche W 4348 (1929-1972)
LOCATION: Documents (Lamont): Microfiche W 4348.1 (1973-1985)
LOCATION: INDEX Microfiche W 4348 = Listing and guide for 1841-1985
LOCATION: Widener Newspaper Microfilm Reading Room: Index Film NC 16 (1986- )
Observer index, 1991- .
LOCATION: Widener Newspaper Microfilm Reading Room: Index Film NC 267
Scotsman Digital Archive (1817-1950) provides articles digitized and searchable by keyword and phrase. Searching free. Will eventually extend to present.
The Times is available full text, including news, editorials, advertising, and pictures, in the Times Digital Archive (1785-1985). It is indexed in Historical Newspapers Online (1790-1980) and in paper indexes:
LOCATION: Widener Newspaper Microfilm Reading Room: Index Film NC 84.3 (1785-1790)
LOCATION: Widener Newspaper Microfilm Reading Room: Index Film NC 84.15; INDEX Film NC 84 (1906-)
LOCATION: Widener Newspaper Microfilm Reading Room: Index Film NC 84.8 (1873-1941)
The Times diary & index of the war, 1914 to 1918.
LOCATION: Widener: RR 3609. 50