A search in OpenWorldcat for [World News Connection] limited top "Internet resource" finds six catalog records, listing overall less than 100 institutions that have the resource cataloged. All of them are colleges or universities, except for the Library of Congress and the Joint Bank Fund Library, the library system serving the IMF/World Bank. If you are not student, you may still be able to use a university library if it is a state school or if it is a Federal Depository Library, which must allow the public access to the federal documents collection.

There's a Wikipedia article on the Open Source Center which is a good starting place for research on that agency, which is tasked to provide access to news sources for use by the US intelligence community.