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Global Studies

This is a selected list of resources for starting research in Global Studies. While the emphasis of this guide is on international development, the resources may be of use for many topics.

Translations of Foreign News

One source of  English translations of international news is BBC Monitoring: International Reports, which can be searched via Nexis Uni.  BBC Monitoring translates and analyzes news and information from freely available media sources around the world, covering TV, radio, press, internet and news agencies in 100 different languages from 150 countries.

To search:

  1. Connect to the Nexis Uni database
  2. On the left side, under "What are you interested in?", click on "A publication"
  3. To the right, under "Find Publication", start typing: BBC Monitoring... the full name will appear, click on it

4. You can type in some keywords in the middle search box before you click on the search button to the right, and/or you can limit your search results and search within the results.