Factiva

Factiva

(User guide)

Another good source for news information for South Asia is the full text database Factiva.
Factiva is a full-text online service that provides access to sources of national and international news, business, health and general information. News sources include newspapers magazines, media transcripts, wire services, pictures and WEB sites. In addition, FACTIVA provides access to several financial databases. FACTIVA covers 8,000 sources in 22 languages. FACTIVA is a joint venture between Dow Jones and Reuters.

Sources: More than 1,000 newspapers, 6,500 journals and magazines, 270 newswires, 160 media programs, 8,500 WEB sites, 20,000 company reports, 3,000 pictures added weekly.

Holdings: Dates vary. Most publications begin in the late 1980's or early 1990's

Publisher/Provider: FACTIVA.COM

Lexis Nexis

Lexis Nexis

For current information on South Asia from South Asia, Lexis Nexis has full text coverage of a number of newspapers and magazines from South Asia.

Dates of coverage vary. Updated continually. Provides a wide variety of authoritative sources (usually with full text content), including:

· Full text of more than 350 newspapers from the U.S. and around the world, many same day of publication, including extensive archives for many titles

· More than 300 magazines and journals and over 600 newsletters

· Broadcast transcripts from the major television and radio networks as well as political transcripts covering Congressional committee hearings, press briefings from the State, Justice, and Defense departments, and presidential news conferences

· Campus news from nearly 300 individual college/university papers

· Wire services, updated several times a day, including respected names such as the Associated Press, Business Wire and PR Newswire

· Non-English language news sources available in Spanish, French, German, Italian and Dutch, including both newspapers and magazines

Also provides a full range of credible sources for business information, including business and financial news, U.S. and international company financial information from government or private sources, market research, industry reports, and actual SEC filings. Search features permit comparison of companies based on criteria such as sales, income and number of employees. (text taken from: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/indexes/titles.html?id=224)

Indiastat.com -- Statistical database for India

Indiastat.com

A good source of statistical information can be found in Indiastat.com. IndiaStat database contains 35 distinct socio-economic classifications and within each of these classifications can be found numerous statistical tables. A number of classifications also are further subdivided into various sub-categories. A large number of tables have very current statistical data, that is, through the current year as well as a large number of time-series tables. Important categories are: Agriculture, Banks and Financial Institutions. Demographics. 9. Economy. Education. Electoral Data. Environment and Pollution. Foreign Trade. Health. Industries. Labor and Workforce. Market Forecast. States and Union Territories. Telecommunication. Urban Areas. Villages. Data can also be browsed by Indian state or industry sector.

Data can be downloaded into Excel or HTML files.

Ethnic Newswatch

Ethnic Newswatch is a full text, comprehensive archival database providing access to more than 400,000 articles in nearly 200 ethnic, minority and native press newspapers, magazines, and journals. Covers 1960 to date. Updated monthly. Ethnic Newswatch has a number of diasporic newspapers of interest to South Asian Studies.

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Newspaper Direct -- India

Newpaper Direct India

(For other full text news databases see also Lexis Nexis and Factiva.)

Penn subscribes to a daily newspaper service called Newspaper Direct which offers same-day international newspapers printed for newspaper subscriptions in their original newspaper format. The last 60 days are accessible. India is well covered by this service. Indian newspapers in the following languages are also included: Hindi, Tamil, Gujarati, Malayalam and Kannada. The entire paper is accessible in its original format.

Unfortunately, papers from the other South Asian countries are not yet available on Newspaper Direct.

If you have any questions about this service, please contact David Nelson at nelsond@pobox.upenn.edu. Note this is a resource that is restricted to the University of Pennsylvania community.

Business Standard Commodity Market Magazine Dainik Bhaskar Deccan Chronicle Dinamalar Divya Bhaskar DNA (Daily News & Analysis Economic Times Financial Chronicle General Hindustan Times Malayala Manorama Mathrubhumi Daily The Asian Age The Hindu The Hindu Business Line The Indian Express The Telegraph - City Edition The Wall Street Journal Asia Times of India Mumbai edition Times of India New Delhi Edition Udayavani Dail