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FBIS, the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, and BBC Worldwide Monitoring are translation services that have been provided respectively by the U.S. government and BBC since 1946 for FBIS, and 1939 for the BBC. JPRS, the Joint Publications Research Service, was an auxilliary service to FBIS from 1953-1995. FBIS Daily Reports in paper / microfiche ended in 1996; World News Connection, which is FBIS full text on the web, began in 1994.

These services provide access to and English language coverage for local and regional media from around the world. Gaining the perspective of publications and broadcasts located in other countries and regions strengthens academic analysis, whether for historical, political, economic, or sociological research. The details and effects of the local economy, results and conditions of elections, and a view outward, seeing the world from that place all are enabled by translation services such as those from FBIS and the BBC. In addition, since these services date back to the late 1930s, local media from all over the world are available for historical research. Indexes are rare before 1980, but for those years events which are dated from other sources can be studied in local media using publications from these services.

In addition to these worldwide services, there are numerous regional and subject translation services, such as those in Central Europe for Radio Free Europe and those covering Latin America. See the guides to research from Princeton's area studies bibliographers and for specific subject areas.

• BBC Monitoring home page, at http://www.monitor.bbc.co.uk/
• Foreign News Media, from the University of Michigan, http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/psnews.html#forind
• Guide to Foreign Broadcast Information Service, from University of Oregon, http://libweb.uoregon.edu/govdocs/micro/fbis.htm
• Guide to FBIS Daily Reports, from University of Pennsylvania, http://www.library.upenn.edu/vanpelt/guides/fbis.html
• Guide to JPRS, from University of Maryland
• Unofficial Guide to the BBC, http://www.vaxxine.com/master-control/BBC/chapters/Ref.html
• World News Connection home page, at http://wnc.fedworld.gov/

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