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RR 2012/201
Readex
Naples, FL
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Keywords Electronic media, Information media, Mass media
Review DOI 10.1108/09504121211240404
Published in two parts and as three products or databases, 1941-1974, 1974-1996, and the Annexes, Readex has just completed the first set of the Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports. Cooperating with the Dartmouth College Library, the Library of Congress, Tufts University, and Yale University, Readex has produced close to 10,000 Daily Reports issued in the 1941-1974 set. A review of the more recent set was previously published in Reference Reviews (RR 2009/201).
The FBIS Daily Reports, printed from 1941 to 1996, have been the USA's "principal record of political and historical open source intelligence": they are reports of events as they occurred from a local perspective. The broadcasts and articles in FBIS have been translated from sources worldwide. A list of languages is available and text may be searched by original language of publication. The Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) was created in 1941 to monitor and translate foreign media (newspapers, periodicals, radio, and television) and was placed under the Central Intelligence Agency in 1947. The Open Source Center (OSC) now continues the work of the FBIS, providing "information on foreign political, military, economic, and technical issues beyond the usual media from an ever expanding universe of open sources" (see www.opensource.gov/). The World News Connection (see http://wnc.fedworld.gov/) from the National Technical Information Service offers access to current foreign news broadcasts. It receives its material from the OSC and subscription is via Dialog. Databases such as...