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Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe is a full-text news and information service that provides access to newspapers, magazines, transcripts, business and legal information.

Factiva
Factiva contains nearly 8,000 sources from 118 countries and 22 languages, and 120 continuously updated newswires.

Coverage includes:

• Same-day and archival coverage of The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, The Globe and Mail, Financial Times, Handelsblatt, Les Echos, South China Morning Post, Australian Financial Review, Sydney Morning Herald, Straits Times, Yomiuri Shimbun, and local newspapers from every corner of the globe.
• Newswires include Dow Jones, Reuters, Associated Press, Asia Pulse, and over 120 other continuously updating industry, press release and local newswires.
• Transcripts from BBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CNN, NPR and more.

ISI Emerging Markets
ISI Emerging Markets delivers news, company and financial data direct from more than 25 emerging markets in Asia, Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe. ISI Emerging Markets gives emerging market specialists worldwide one-stop Internet access to mission-critical information straight from the local markets.

Information is updated anywhere from continuously throughout the day to once annually depending on the type of information. For instance, BBC Worldwide Monitoring is updated 60-100 times per day, whereas certain macroeconomic figures may be updated once per quarter and privatization or topical reports may be updated once per year. Most information is published in English as well as the local language.

These local languages are Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Turkish, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, German, French, Latvian, Bulgaria, Romanian and Ukrainian.

Countries covered include:

• Europe: Baltic States (including Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania), Bulgaria, Central Asia - Caucasus, Czech Republic (including Slovakia), Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine
• Latin America : Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela
• Asia : China and India

Current news, company financial statements, company profiles, corporate action reports, industry reports, analyst and brokerage reports, closing price quotes, macroeconomic statistics, macroeconomic forecasts and legal and political information are given for each country.

EIU Viewswire
Each day the EIU ViewsWire provides 100-125 analytical articles on any of 195 major and emerging markets. Unlike traditional news services, the EIU ViewsWire offers views--not news--to help you make informed international business decisions. To accomplish this, EIU ViewsWire editors rely on contributions from the Economist Intelligence Unit's global network of 500 analysts, correspondents and editors based in more than 100 countries, plus the EIU's comprehensive database of country, industry and best-practice information. The EIU ViewsWire also draws on the full resources of the Economist Group, including the Economist, the Journal of Commerce, CFO magazine, as well as other reputable world sources, such as the Financial Times, the World Bank and OECD.

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World News Connection
World News Connection provides online the latest two years worth of full text and summaries of newspaper articles, speeches, conference proceedings, television & radio broadcasts, books, and reports which have been collected and translated by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service. The material covers a broad range of political, socioeconomic, scientific, technical and environmental topics. Generally, the information in WNC is available within 48-72 hours from the time of the original publication or broadcast.

Academic Search Premier
Academic Search Premier, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for more than 3,600 scholarly publications, including more than 2,700 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 4,500 journals in the collection. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more.

PAIS
PAIS International covers the literature of public affairs including political, economic and social issues. It contains references to articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, research reports, conference reports and publications of international agencies. Publications from more than 60 countries are included. Materials indexed are in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. Coverage begins in 1974.