Translations - World News Connection, FBIS, JPRS  

World News Connection is the electronic replacement for the news transcription and translation series issued previously as Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports.The print version was discontinued during 1997.  As did the old FBIS Daily Reports, WNC offers time sensitive information gathered from thousands of foreign media sources, including political speeches, television programs and radio broadcasts, and articles from newspapers, periodicals, and books.

Users get extensive and in-depth collection of unclassified military, political, environmental, sociological, scientific and technical data and reports from around the world (U.S. and Canadian media are not included).  Materials are translated into English.  The table below reflects UVA Library collections. The transcripts are compiled from eight world regions excluding the U.S. and Canada:

• People's Republic of China
• Central Eurasia
• Asia and the Pacific
• Eastern Europe
• Latin America
• Middle East and Africa
• South Asia
• Western Europe

Backfiles and Indexing of World News Connection / FBIS Daily Reports at the UVA Library

Joint Publications Research Service Translations

JPRS began in 1957 and was merged into FBIS in 1996.  In 1997 the reporting system was transformed into the current electronic World News Connection and all print versions were discontinued.  For many years prior to 1996 JPRS was responsible for the translation of foreign language publciations into English for government use. Handling materials in almost any language, JPRS provided translations of government documents, scholarly works, research reports, newspaper and periodical articles, and almost anything else appearing in print. JPRS Translations are not limited to any subjects, but ranged over the entire spectrum of the social sciences and science-technology fields and occasionally even the humanities.

Backfiles and Indexing of JPRS Translations at the UVA Library