U.S. Government Documents 

World News Connection (WNC) is FBIS on the web, described as being a " Foreign News Alert Service from the US Government" to "identify what really is happening in a specific country or region." . Compiled from thousands of non-U.S. media sources, focusing especially on local media sources. Covers significant socioeconomic, political, scientific, technical, and environmental issues and events. Translations and English language versions from newspaper articles, conference proceedings, television and radio broadcasts, periodicals and non-classified technical reports. Regions include: Central Eurasia, East Asia, Near East & South Asia, China, East Europe, West Europe, Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. Coverage began July 1994; updated every U.S. Government work day, within 24-72 hours from the time of original publication or broadcast. No paper equivalent.

World News Connection provides three basic search methods; all can limit by date:

• Free Text WNC analyzes the search, adds related term(s) and variations, and executes the search. Searcher can chose appropriate meanings and assign "weights" to terms. Can limit by date. use Boolean operators (and, or, not). Articles sorted by probable relevance.


• Region/Topic "Point and click" method of searching by eight geographic regions and seven topics.


• Structured Traditional Boolean method of searching using "and - or - not". System does not assign values to search terms.

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