Foreign Broadcast Information Service - FBIS Daily Reports

The DAILY REPORTS are translations into English of written and spoken material from radio and television broadcasts, news agency transmissions, and magazines and newspapers. The work of collecting and translating reports is done by the offices of the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS).

From 4 September 1941 - September/October 1996 the FBIS published assorted series and area edition of Daily Reports translations from foreign broadcasts, news agency transmissions and sometimes from periodicals and newspapers. In 1996 all FBIS publications were combined and issued on CD-ROM as FBIS Publications. From 1953 - 1995 the Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS), an auxiliary of the FBIS and the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) produced the Daily Reports. In 1995 the contents of the Daily Report goes on-oline as the World News Connection and as well on CD-ROM as FBIS Publications.

The paper FBIS DAILY REPORTS are available in the Government Documents stacks (5th Floor) Call Number: PREX 7.10: Holdings from: 1967 to 1974.

Microfiche Daily Reports are available in the Government Documents Reading Room (5th Floor) Call Number: PREX 7.10: Holdings from: 1974 to mid-1996.

After July 1996, the reports are available on several full-text CD-ROM's at the Government Documents Department service desk. Call Number: PREX 7.10/3: Please note: printing from or copying the reports is prohibited by the publisher.

To access reports before July 1996:

An INDEX to all FBIS DAILY REPORTS from 1977 to October 1996 is available on CD-ROM in the Documents Department on the public computers. This CD-ROM Index will help you quickly identify specific DAILY REPORTS covering subjects you are interested in. For earlier material, use the monthly Tables of Contents filed at the beginning of each year's issues, or refer to a general index such as The New York Times Index. Once you determine the date of an event you are researching, you can check the DAILY REPORTS for that time period.

The Daily Reports are organized by the area of the world they originated from. Each area of the world has been given an abbreviation code, and the Daily Reports in the Documents Department on the fifth floor are filed by call numbers which include these codes.

In addition to the FBIS series, the library subscribes to:
World News Connection, which is another set of full-text English translations of foreign media. World News Connection publications cover 1994 to the present.
PAIS: Public Affairs Information Service indexes articles, books, and documents addressing important political, economic and social issues. Includes publications from over 120 countries throughout the world. In addition to English, some of the indexed materials are published in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.
SWB. Summary of world broadcasts 1939-1997 is a summary of transmissions from foreign radio stations produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation.

The table below shows the FBIS abbreviations for the world areas, and the call numbers by which you can find the DAILY REPORTS before July 1996. The table also shows which years of REPORTS the Library owns and whether the reports are in paper copy or on microfiche.

AFR = AFRICA

6/87 - 8/96 micro Call no.= PREX 7.10:FBIS-AFR-(date)

APA = ASIA AND PACIFIC

4/74 - 12/76 micro Call no.= PREX 7.10:FBIS-APA-(date)

2/77 - 12/87 paper Call no.= PREX 7.10:4/year/no.

1/78 - 5/87 micro Call no. = PREX 7.10:FBIS-APA-(date)

(After 1987, see NES (Near East and South Asia) or EAS (East Asia))

CHI = CHINA

1/78 - 8/96 micro Call no.= PREX 7.10:FBIS-CHI-(date)

EAS = EAST ASIA

6/87 - 8/96 micro Call no.= PREX 7.10:FBIS-EAS-(date)

EEU = EASTERN EUROPE

1/78 - 8/96 micro Call no.= PREX 7.10:EEU-(date)

LAM = LATIN AMERICA

10/78 - 9/78 micro Call no.= PREX 7.10:FBIS-LAT-(date)

6/87 - 8/96 micro Call no.= PREX 7.10:FBIS-LAT-(date)

MEA = MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA

1/78 - 12/87 micro Call no.= PREX 7.10:FBIS-MEA-(date)

(After 1977, this series was absorbed by NES or by AFR, depending on the country.)

NES = NEAR EAST AND SOUTH ASIA

6/78 - 8/96 micro Call no. = PREX 7.10:FBIS-NES-(date)

SAS or SOA = SOUTH ASIA

4/80 - 5/87 Call no.= PREX 7.10:FBIS-SAS-(date)

SOV = SOVIET UNION

1/78 - 8/96 micro Call no.= PREX 7.10:FBIS-SOV-(date)

SSA = SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

12/74 - 6/77 paper Call no.= PREX 7.10:FBIS:8/year/no.

10/78 - 3/80 micro Call no.= PREX 7.10:FBIS-SSA-(date)

(After March 30, 1980, this series was absorbed into MEA)

USR = SOV

Call no.= PREX 7.10:SOV

WEU = WESTERN EUROPE

1/78 - 8/96 micro Call no.= PREX 7.10:FBIS-WEU-(date)