Acess to the World News
Connection®, A Foreign News Service from the U.S. Government, is
limited to the Cornell
Community
. Contact the
Middle East & Islamic
Studies Bibliographer or the
Reference Dept.
for a password to use the database.
World News Connection (WNC) is an online news service, only accessible via the World Wide
Web, that offers an extensive array of translated and English-language news and information.
Particularly effective in its coverage of local media sources, WNC provides you with the power
to identify what really is happening in a specific country or region. Compiled from thousands of
non-U.S. media sources, the information in WNC covers significant socioeconomic, political,
scientific, technical, and environmental issues and events.
The material in WNC is provided to the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) by the
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS), a U.S. government agency. For over 50 years,
analysts from FBIS' domestic and overseas bureaus have monitored timely and pertinent
open-source materials, including grey literature. Uniquely, WNC allows you to take advantage
of the intelligence gathering experience of FBIS.
The information is obtained from full text and summaries of newspaper articles, conference
proceedings, television and radio broadcasts, periodicals, and non-classified technical reports.
New information is entered into WNC every government business day. Generally, new
information is available within 48-72 hours from the time of original publication or broadcast.
Regional categories covered include:
Central Eurasia
East Asia
Near East & South Asia
China
East Europe
West Europe
Latin America
Sub-Saharan Africa
WNC is a valuable research tool for anyone who needs to monitor non-U.S. media sources.
For a low monthly fee, WNC subscribers can conduct unlimited interactive searches and have
the ability to set up automated searches know as "profiles". Users of all skill levels will be
impressed by WNC's power and ease of use. WNC also provides a two-year rolling back-file
for researching historical information." World News Connection® http://wnc.fedworld.gov/
