World News Digest - About This Database

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Authoritative World News from 1940 Through Today Provides Coverage, Context, and Perspective

Recently redesigned, World News Digest brings together and enhances nearly seven decades of news from the renowned Facts On File World News Digest in print. This archival record of domestic and international news, unrivaled for its depth, breadth, and accuracy, covers all major political, social, and economic events since November 1940. The World News Digest database is updated twice weekly and includes a searchable hourly newsfeed. It contains more than 1 million internal hyperlinks and offers convenient access features. Researchers will appreciate the streamlined interface as well as the enhanced search and browse tools—including convenient tabbed search results.

Features

  • Facts researchers can trust. World News Digest has served schools, libraries, government agencies, businesses, and newsrooms since 1940
  • Editorially created hyperlinks from articles to related material, directing researchers to just what they seek
  • Primary source documents and special research features on high-interest topics, taking researchers back into history and giving context to the news of the hour
  • Timelines, offering news written as it happened and giving students perspective on the times they are studying. Great for decade projects
  • Editorial cartoons with discussion questions, teaching analysis and promoting critical-thinking skills, enhanced by thousands of maps, charts, graphs, and historic photographs
  • Election 2008 and Iraq War in-depth coverage guides, giving researchers quick access to this vital information
  • Includes Almanac and Encyclopedia
  • Redesigned Curriculum Tools area, teaching research and presentation skills, with special sections supporting government, civics, economics, history, and social studies curricula
  • "Need a Research Topic?," offering short summaries of suggested research topics, with a fully linked list of articles for each
  • New persistent record links and more prominent citations.