Newspaper Guide

Links to electronic newspapers, journals, and magazines from around the world. Compiled by MIT Libraries.

The widest circulating English language newspaper published in China.

Read the Chinese edition of The New York Times in simplified or traditional characters.

Links to the major Newspapers in Japan.

Newspaper of the Communist Party of China. Available in both Chinese and English.

Daily, except Sunday. Bombay. Current month only.

Portal site in German that provides acces to 3 digitzed newspapers of the former DDR - Neues Deutschland, Berliner Zeitung and Neue Zeit.

The digital newspaper archive of the Dr. Friedrich Teßmann Library offers the possibility to skim and scan digitized newspapers and periodicals published in the Alpine area.

Major German newspaper.

Daily, except Sundays & holidays. Frankfurt. Current month only.

European news navigator

Several dozen Umbrian newspapers, some as early as 1810. Browsing by issue only, no searchable full text.

Online coverage from 1996-present. Also available in print from 1987- in the bound periodicals collection on the lower level of the Davis Family Library AP20.E92, and from 1953-1988 on microfilm - film 481.

L'Unità (nazionale, Torino and meridionale editions) is browseable in PDF back to 1924 and offers full-text searching back to 1996.

Searchable full text from 9 February 1867 until December 2005. Entire pages can be downloaded as PDF.

Microfilm #382 and Current Newspapers section.
Print Index. 1944 - . REF AI 21 .M58.

Covers 2002-present. For coverage beginning in 1969, see the bound periodicals on the lower level of the Davis Family Library, AP20.N74

This international newspaper may be relevant to many other country topics, or its indexing may help you find subjects in other papers. The library also has the most current edition in print.

Digital newspapers from the Newspaper Department of the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin.

Weekly. German. Current month only.

Full text of nearly 300 newspapers from Canada's leading publishers, including The Globe and Mail. Some backfiles date as far back as the late 1970s and 1980s.

Major news source in Arabic

Open access collection of newspapers predominantly in Arabic, but also includes key titles in English and French. The collection comprises mostly out-of-copyright, orphaned content. Publications date from 1902 to 1972. CRL members and subscribing institutions also receive access to five in-copyright titles from the region: al-Jumhūrīyah (الجمهورية, Egypt), Filasṭīn (فلسطين, Israel), al-Akhbar (الاخبار, Lebanon), al-Riyadh (الرياض, Saudi Arabia), and al-Dustūr (الدستور, Jordan).

The Jerusalem Post was founded on December 1, 1932 as the Palestine Post. In 1950 it changed its name to the Jerusalem Post.

Available in Hewbrew and English, Ynetnews is part of the Yedioth Media Group, which publishes Yedioth Ahronoth – Israel's most widely-read daily newspaper.

Daily. Tokyo. Current month only.

Weekly selection of Russian-language press materials translated into English.  Online access 2001 - present. Earlier years called Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press and before that, Current Digest of the Soviet Press. 

All titles, except for Current Digest of the Soviet Press, are on microfiche in the Government Documents section of the library and are English translations of newspapers, journals, and broadcasts of the countries cited. With the exception of the Current Digest of the Soviet Press, they are the work of FBIS (Foreign Broadcast Information Service) and JPRS (Joint Publications Research Service)
The Transdex microfiche (GovDoc Ref AI 3. T 7) serve as indexing for all of the JPRS items from 1984-1996. Other indexes are listed in MIDCAT.

Translations of radio and TV broadcasts, newspaper and magazine articles, wire services and speeches. Some reports available FULL-TEXT via Hathitrust. Foreign radio broadcasts listed separately. The library has reports on microfiche for Latin America ('90+), Sub-Sahara Africa ('91+), Asia & Pacific/East Asia ('85+), USSR & East Europe/Central Eurasia ('78-'96), China ('79+), Eastern Europe ('87+). Use theIndex to the FBIS Daily Reports - Govt Docs Reference DJ - DS. Reports issued on microfiche, located in Gov Docs microfiche cabinets under PREX 7.10. For more detail, see the FBIS handout.  See also JPRS reports and JPRS handout.

Translations of books, reports, and periodical articles. Library receives selected series for Russia, China, East Asia, Japan, Europe, Latin America.  See the JPRS handout for details. Reports issued on microfiche, located in Gov Docs microfiche cabinets under PREX 7.13  Index on microfiche (Transdex) Govt Docs Reference AI3 .T7