New E-Resources at Northwestern

Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1974 - 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.

Translated into English from more than 50 languages - from Arabic to Swahili - these comprehensive media reports from around the globe include news, interviews, speeches and editorial commentary.

Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press

The digitization of The Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press (CDPSP) Digital Archive is now complete.  With content never before available online, the digital archive illuminates key historical events and provides rich resources for researching the Cold War era from the Soviet perspective, when the government, culture, and peoples of the Soviet Union were almost totally inaccessible to the outside world. beginnings of the Cold War through the emergence of Rus in the new balance Encompassing the entire run of The Current Digest of the Soviet/Post-Soviet Press, this massive English-language resource provides more than 70,000 articles of Soviet and Russian news and commentary, from 1949 to the present.

Springer E-Book Collection

Springer English language e-books are available from 2005 to the present in all subject categories.  This e-book package includes most book Springer book series.  Exceptions to the title list are:   German language titles excepted if part of a covered series; International Tables for Crystallography; Landolt Bornstein series; Protocols (formerly BioMed Protocols from Humana Press).  Imprints covered:  Apress; Birkhauser; Copernicus Books; Humana; Physica-Verlag; Plenum US; Praxis; Springer-Verlag; Steinkopff; TELOS.

Access through individual e-book records is in NUcat, the Library’s online catalog.

Charleston Advisor

The Charleston Advisor publishes critical reviews of online resources for libraries. As a critical evaluation tool for Web-based electronic resources, The Charleston Advisor uses a rating system which will score each product based on four elements: content, searchability, price and contract options/ features.

17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers

Searchable full-text access to the British Library’s collection of the newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817)–the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media. More than twelve hundred titles and almost one million pages are included.

International Affairs

A Russian Journal of World Politics, Diplomacy and International Relations.