FBIS Daily Reports Accolades

"Scholars and students in an increasingly globalized world must engage with the history and cultural perspectives of other countries. The FBIS Daily Report is a crucial resource for those seeking to understand events from other countries' standpoints. Digitization of the Daily Report will dramatically expose the breadth and depth of this unique material."
— Julie Linden, Government Information Librarian, Yale University Library

"Heavily used by students and faculty, the FBIS Daily Report enables researchers to use foreign language primary sources, including newspaper articles, transcripts of radio and television interviews, intercepted clandestine radio broadcasts and more. Many researchers do not know all of the foreign languages necessary to follow news reports in the native languages of all of the countries they might wish to study. Because FBIS Daily Report provides consistently reliable English translations from the original sources in dozens of languages, students and faculty have expanded research opportunities. Without FBIS, researchers would have to rely entirely on secondary sources or to limit their research projects to primary sources in only those languages in which they are fluent. And even if a student is fluent in the language necessary to follow news reports in a particular country, many libraries do not subscribe to many of the news sources from which the FBIS reports are taken.

"An online edition of FBIS Daily Report—offering full text, consistently reliable English translations from the original news reports in dozens of languages from every region of the world—presents broad new opportunities for students shaping their research topics. The capability to perform full text searches of a resource previously available only in microform will open up years and years of information from foreign news sources that may not have been used before because of the effort required to access the material. This exciting resource provides access to primary source material of critical international importance and to the students and scholars researching diverse aspects of our global society. We eagerly await this digital product by a company known for scholarly excellence."
— Donna Koepp, Head of Government Documents and Microforms and Head of Reference and Instructional Services, and John Collins, Reference/Documents Librarian, both Harvard College Library

"An invaluable resource for scholars of international affairs. It is the premier collection of translated foreign press available in English."
— R. William Ayres, Ph.D., Director, Center for Global Citizenship and Associate Professor of International Relations, Elizabethtown College

"For decades, FBIS has been indispensable for all serious students of international politics. The new online searchable edition opens new avenues for important research in the social sciences and humanities."
— Robert A. Pape, Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago and author of Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism (2005)

"Using FBIS documents plunges the scholar and student directly into those moments in which history is made. Many of these materials are literally transcripts of events as they occurred, right down to parenthetical asides: "Gunfire heard in background" of a Ghanaian radio news program in progress as the station was stormed in an attempted coup.

"FBIS brings to the mind's eye what on-the-spot video does now: it makes the events of the last half of the 20th century come alive, as well as guarantee that firsthand descriptions will survive to tell the tale even after events have been deconstructed, re-assembled and interpreted according to the prevailing political and historical theories of the day."
— Glenda Pearson, Human Rights Librarian, University of Washington Libraries

"I am very excited to learn that the Foreign Broadcast Information Service's Daily Report will soon be digitized. In the past I have utilized this excellent source not only for the more recent broadcasts surveyed in 'Palestinian Radio and the Intifada' but also those from the 1950s and 1960s included in 'The Algerian War of Words: Broadcasting and Revolution, 1954-1962.' While I remember fondly countless hours spent reading the microfilm and microfiche versions, a searchable online version of the FBIS Daily Report will prove to be even more invaluable to future researchers."
— Robert Bookmiller, Ph.D., Director of International Studies and Associate Professor, Department of Government and Political Affairs, Millersville University of Pennsylvania

"Readex's digitized edition of the FBIS Daily Report will be essential for today's international and government information researchers. Comprehensive electronic access to the FBIS translations in English of worldwide daily broadcasts, news and government statements is unprecedented. Scholars, students, policymakers, citizens—anyone concerned with globalization, politics and culture—will be thrilled to use such an incredible interdisciplinary online resource."
— Mary Mallory, Head, Government Documents Library, and Associate Professor of Library Administration, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign