08 May 2009

World News Connection (WNS)
The Dialog/ProQuest Corporation, Cary, NC, US
Supplied note:
"If your library has a subscription, 'World News Connection' is an online version of the old FBIS (Foreign Broadcast Information Service) that translates radio & TV broadcasts from many countries, including China. - cvf."
Self-description:
"About WNC - [... a] research tool for anyone who needs to monitor non-U.S. media sources, the material in WNC is provided to the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) by the Open Source Center (OSC). Analysts from OSC domestic and overseas bureaus monitor timely and pertinent open-source materials. WNC is the only news service that allows you to take advantage of the intelligence gathering experience of OSC."
Site contents:
* Search (Simple Search, Advanced Search, Region/Topic Search); * Latest Headlines (Africa, Americas, Antarctica, Asia [Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Brunei Darrussalam, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mongolia, North Korea, Pakistan, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, West Bank and Gaza Strip], Eurasia, Europe, Middle East, Oceania); * Contact Us; * Manage Alerts; * Search Tips; * Sources.
[To use Dialog, you need an account with The Dialog Corporation. You are charged for each full record you display. - ed.]
URL http://wnc.dialog.com/
Link reported by: CAPLAN Victoria F (lbcaplan--at--ust.hk), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://wnc.dialog.com/
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News/Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Business
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating not available
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 1,000