Global Newsstream enables users to search the most recent global news content, as well as archives that stretch back into the 1980s, featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format. All titles are cross-searchable on the ProQuest platform.

It is one of the largest collections of news from the United States, Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Australia, and includes the following sources:

• Canadian Newsstream Collection
• Global Breaking Newswires
• International Newsstream Collection – the world's top news sources, including Le Monde, ABC, El Norte, Die Welt, Financial Times, The Guardian, Jerusalem Post, Times of India, The Daily Telegraph, Sydney Morning Herald, The Wall Street Journal, and the BBC Monitoring series of publications
• U.S. Newsstream Collection