We have trial access to the two products listed below until 14 April 2010. They are accessible at http://infoweb.newsbank.com . (Only available to the UCT community.)
World Newspaper Archive: Africa
1800-1922
This
database recently launched in January with 8 titles. Over the course of the
year the remainder of the content will be added. The current trial is more to test the functionality (as opposed to
the content), but should give us a good overview nonetheless. When the rest of
the content is loaded we will ask for another trial to evaluate this aspect of
the resource.
We also have trial access to the Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports (FBIS): Africa 1974-1996 database. The Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Report has been the United States' principal record of political and historical open source intelligence for nearly 70 years. Similar to BBC Monitoring, the FBIS created daily reports on countries in Sub-Saharan Africa that included the most important political, social, economic and military events from newspapers, radio & television broadcasts, speeches, government announcements etc. This archive of transcripts of African broadcasts and news provides daily insight into the key events that shaped Africa and particularly South Africa during the second half of the 20th century.
