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Dear List Members, News is delivered in a variety of formats on the web. The problem is probably too much choice. Most major news services just post the current day's news on their web sites. However, some specialized search engines are indexing these services and building up their own searchable archives. Below is a very incomplete list of various news options in the area of forced migration and some references to more general news search engines and directories. 1. Forced migration-related AlertNet - http://www.alertnet.org - Offers combination of Reuters news and reports from humanitarian relief NGOs. InterAction Newswire - http://www.interaction.pair.com/newswire - Weekly news from InterAction members. Migration News - http://migration.ucdavis.edu/mn/mntxt.html - Monthly newsletter reporting on immigration and integration developments worldwide; also available in e-mail format; searchable archive available. Refugees Daily - http://www.unhcr.ch/news/media/daily.htm - Summary of refugee-related news from the major news wires and services; can be searched through Refugee NewsNet (http://www.unhcr.ch/news/newswire/newswire.htm), along with other UNHCR news sources. ReliefWeb - http://www.reliefweb.int - Comprehensive repository of news and information on complex emergencies and natural disasters; organized by country; reports can be sorted by date, source, or format; searchable archive available. Security Watch - http://www.isn.ethz.ch/infoservice/index.cfm?service=cwn&menu=1 - Daily news summaries on conflict, peacekeeping, arms control, and other security issues; searchable archive available. Updates on World Conflicts - http://www.cartercenter.org/UPDATES/updates.html - Summaries of conflict-related news from the major news wires and other news services. Weekly News - http://www.idpproject.org/weekly_news.htm - Summaries of IDP-related news from the Global IDP Project. 2. News Directories and Search Engines E-Revue - http://www.e-revue.com - Search for current news in the French- or English-language press; offers alerting service to inform you when news on a particular issue is available; Net2one - http://www.netone.fr - Offers news from French, Swedish, UK and U.S. press; searchable archive of stories; also provides such personalized services as e-mail alerts when news articles on keywords of your choice become available and customized profiles of selected news sources. NewsTrawler - http://www.newstrawler.com - Allows you to search by country, category, or across countries; for the latter, you can select various titles of country-specific news services that you want to search, and then launch a query across them from one central point. Online Newspapers - http://www.onlinenewspapers.com - Straightforward directory that provides access to newspapers by country. Elisa Mason Consultant, Forced Migration Portal Project Refugee Studies Centre, Univ. of Oxford Note: The material contained in this communication comes to you from the Forced-migration Discussion List which is moderated by the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC), University of Oxford. It does not necessarily reflect the views of the RSC or the University. If you re-print, copy, archive or re-post this message please retain this disclaimer. Quotations or extracts should include attribution to the original sources. Forced-migration Discussion list reports are archived on: http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/forced-migration. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%