About This Database

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

World News Digest brings together 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. World News Digest is updated twice weekly and includes a searchable hourly newsfeed. Its more than 1 million internal hyperlinks allow researchers to follow a story ahead in time and back in time, and lead to just the background information they need to understand its significance.

Features:

• Facts researchers can trust, featuring World News Digest information that 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
• Newspaper editorials, with links to news coverage
• Editorial cartoons with discussion questions, teaching analysis and promoting critical-thinking skills—plus thousands of maps, charts, graphs, and historic photographs
• In-depth coverage guides to top ongoing stories, giving researchers quick access to this vital information
• Full Almanac and Encyclopedia
• Curriculum Tools, 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
• Convenient functions, including persistent record links, save-to-folder, and citation display.