InfoGuides: Core Sources in Middle Eastern and African History: Find Periodical Publications as Primary Sources

Major Periodical Collections

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is a collection of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences digitized in most cases back to the first date of issue. Includes selected books, primary sources and other materials for academic work.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Provides access to a wide range of news (includes New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times), business (company news, industry forecasts), government (legislative news, tax information), legal (news, case law) and reference information. Formerly LexisNexis Academic.
Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing of over three million articles from more than 550 magazines, including full coverage of the original print volumes of Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature™. Coverage: 1890-1982.

Major Newspaper Collections

Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) daily reports 1974-1996 This link opens in a new window
Access full text of reports issued 1975-1996 created by the U.S. intelligence community to benefit policy makers and analysts, FBIS Daily Reports offer foreign views and perspectives on historical events from thousands of monitored broadcasts, and publications. See World News Connection for broadcasts from 1996 to 2013. See FBIS Electronic Index, below, for a subject search option.
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Electronic Index This link opens in a new window
Provides subject access to the Daily Reports issued by the U.S. Government, including translated broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements from nations worldwide. Focuses on international political, economic, scientific, and cultural issues and events; covers all regions and reflects the changes that have occurred in them1975-1996. See World News Connection for broadcasts from 1996 to 2013.
Gale NewsVault This link opens in a new window
Cross-search Mason's Gale newspaper archives collections using a single interface.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Provides genealogists, researchers, and scholars with first-hand accounts and coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. Full-text access to 25 Historical Newspaper Titles.
World Newspaper Archive, Africa This link opens in a new window
Provides more than 70 searchable African newspapers published between 1800 and 1922 in Sub-Saharan Africa. Features English- and foreign-language titles from Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, and other countries covering the issues and events that shaped the continent and its peoples.