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US-Mexican Border Studies: News Sources on Latin America

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A great way to keep up with News is to use BrowZine to create customized list of your favorite scholarly, peer-reviewed journals and News Sources (64 max), which you can access on the web (via BrowZine.com), through a mobile app, or both as it syncs your account across all devices. 

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Factiva is an EXCELLENT resource containing a broad collection of newspapers and periodicals.  However, searching in this database is a bit less intuitive than some -- so here are some pointers:

1. Select UC San Diego

2. Click on the Search button along the horizontal bars at the top and select "Search Builder" from the drop-down options.

3. To search Factiva effectively, IT IS ESSENTIAL TO USE BOOLEAN SEARCH TERMS (scroll down on the linked page to find a primer/reminder)!

4. To see if Factiva includes a particular source in its collection, click on the "Source" option and then type its name in the search box. 

To limit your search to that publication:

Click on the name/title of the source which will add that publication as a filter.  Make sure to click on the title, not on the red icon which indicates "exclude"!

Make sure that under languages there is nothing selected that would limit the language (for example, if English is selected without Spanish or Portuguese for a foreign newspaper from a relevant country, you may not get any results). 

And make sure that you change the date range if need be, since the default is the past 3 months only -- and Factiva access may have ended earlier.

 

Full Search News Resources

Zeta

Tijuana's Independent Newspaper  Zeta known for its critical political and cultural commentary and its cultural supplements is microfilmed at UCSD.

UCSD also recently began to digitally archive the weekly print edition of Zeta  through the Internet Archive's Way Back Machine.  To access, click on the most recent date indicated.

The microfilm for 1984-2011 is available on Geisel's 2nd Floor West Wing (in the microfilm drawer -- call # XF 1865)

Recent print editions are available in the Current Newspapers area also on Geisel's 2nd Floor West Wing

For other editions, ask at the Research Assistance Desk to see issues in the Bindery.  These are for in-library use only.

San Diego News

Online access to UCSD affiliates is available for:

Microfilm access is available for issues from 1871-present. The newspaper has gone through various name changes, but all are together at call number XF 248. Microfilm provides cover-to-cover page images of all issues. 

Important Open Access Onine News Sites

LANIC Newspapers and News 

lists many different news sites, most offering some free content.

Latin American Newspapers (Zona Latina) 

list by country of newspaper web sites, some with free content

UN News 

Historical News Sources

Alternatively, major national dailies can be accessed directly: 

The Center for Research Libraries provides online access to this resource to members.