Paper Topic Selection: International

TIP: Need help determining which news sources below require individual subscription or off-campus use of the BLS proxy server?

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The New York Times: Each current BLS student, faculty member or administrator can create an individual account.  Click here for instructions.  Also, subscription Lexis+ provides The New York Times (scope: June 1, 1980-present).  Subscription ProQuest provides a similar database: New York Times, Late edition, East Coast in PDF (scope: June 1, 1980-present, "some exceptions").  ProQuest also provides Historical New York Times with Index in PDF (scope:1851-2021). 

Council on Foreign Relations (some content is free) 

Foreign Affairs (click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION - HEIN).  Scope: Vols. 1-104#3 (1922-2025).  

Each current BLS student, faculty member or administrator can create an individual FT.com account.  There is a link to registration instructions in BLS Library's SARA catalog record for the Financial Times.

The Wall Street Journal (multiple databases) in ProQuest's U.S. Newsstream Collection. 

• Wall Street Journal (1889-1922) - scope: July 8, 1889 - Dec. 30, 1922, "some exceptions"
• Wall Street Journal (1923-) - scope: Jan. 1, 1923 - Dec. 31, 2013, "some exceptions"
• Wall Street Journal, Eastern edition - scope: Jan 2, 1984 - present
• Wall Street Journal (Online) - scope: Jan. 8, 2010 - present, "some exceptions"

The Wall Street Journal in Lexis (enter your BLS Lexis username/password) 

• Tip: To view all recent content from The Wall Street Journal: Click: the three stacked dots (near top of screen) > click: Get all documents for this source.  Scope: June 13, 1979 - present. 

Wall Street Journal (Online) in Lexis (enter your BLS Lexis username/password). 

• Tip in Lexis: To view all recent conent from Wall Street Journal (Online): Click: the three stacked dots (near top of screen) > click: Get all documents for this source.  Scope: See source description.  Excerpt: "Includes as of Oct. 2008, all print and online articles from The Wall Street Journal." 

Bloomberg Law subscription database: On home screen click tab: News & Analysis > Bloomberg Law News to link to news stories grouped by topic. 

Practice Centers also include news: From home screen tab: Practice Centers, use pull-down menu to access a practice center like Antitrust or Privacy & Data Security.

BLS patrons: Subscription database Lexis+ category: News supports many types of news searches (e.g., by country, by region of the world and by databases of combined publications).

BLS patrons: subscription database Westlaw Precision provides News from Reuters.  On right side of screen are links to International news and a menu of news Topics.

Google News: World