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Asia-Studies Full-text Online (International Information Services) Provides access to thousands of full-text reports covering 53 Asian Pacific countries on a variety of business, government, economic, and social issues. |
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AtoZ Maps Online (World Trade Press) A database of proprietary and royalty-free world, continent, country, and state maps. Included in the 4,000+ maps are: political, physical, outline, population, precipitation, climate, and other thematic maps. Coverage: New maps added monthly. |
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Background Notes (U.S. Department of State) Succinctly covers the history, geography, culture, government, politics, economics, climate, and transportation of nations worldwide. Only selected titles are available in print, but all are on the Web site. Note: Unrestricted access |
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CIA World Factbook (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency) The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) supplies dozens of facts for each country including data on geography, people, government, economy, transportation, communication, and defense forces. Note: Unrestricted access |
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Country Studies/Area Handbooks (U.S. Library of Congress) Each study deals with a particular foreign country, describing and analyzing its political, economic, social and national security systems and institutions. Over 80 countries are featured. From the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress. Note: Unrestricted access |
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CultureGrams (Proquest and Brigham Young University) Learn societal and cultural details of more than 200 nations through country-specific reports in Culture Grams. With maps, data, photos and videos local experts document details of each country's customs, traditions, and daily life including such aspects as typical greetings, marriage customs, foods eaten, music and holidays celebrated. Less detailed reports are supplied for the U.S. States and Canadian Provinces. Build your own comparison tables and graphs about international cultures. |
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Digital National Security Archive Collection (DNSA) (Proquest) DNSA contains more than a 100,000 U.S.government documents containing information on critical world events, foreign relations, and U.S. policy writings from post-World War II through the 21st century. DNSA's diverse contents include presidential directives, memos, briefing papers, White House communications, email, confidential letters and more. There are also glossaries, chronologies, bibliographies, overviews, and photographs in the database. Most of these documents were previously classified and unavailable. |
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European Parliment (European Union) The EUs Fact sheets on the European Union are broken down in two ways -- by Topics and by Contents. These are essentially different ways of presenting the main subject areas discussed in the fact sheets. Note: Unrestricted access |
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MideastWire.com (Mideast Wire) This resource is a daily newswire service of concise articles/briefs (translated into English) covering key political, economic, cultural, and opinion pieces appearing in the media of the 22 Arab countries, Iran, and the Arab diaspora. Special features include access to the archive of articles/briefs dating from 2005 to present. Users can take advantage of an RSS feed to receive daily updates. |
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OECD.StatExtracts (Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development ) This database from the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development provides access to the core for OECD countries and selected non-member countries. Covers historical and current information on: country profiles, gross domestic product (GDP), goverment debt, labor/labour market, economic indicators, consumer price indexes (CPI), foreign aid, agriculture, health expenditure, education, population, trade, productivity, energy, environment. Note: Unrestricted access |
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Statesman's Yearbook (Palgrave McMillan) Includes current and historical archival information (dating back to 1864) about every country in the world, including information on history, leaders, population, territory, social statistics, climate, government, elections, defense, economy, energy, natural resources, industry, trade, communications, social institutions, religion, culture and diplomatic representatives. |
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World Digital Library (Library of Congress and UNESCO) The Library of Congress (LOC) and the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) jointly created this portal as a collection of high-quality digital items reflecting the cultural heritage of all UNESCO member countries. Note: Unrestricted access |
| Death Penalty Worldwide (Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern University School of Law) | |
| Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) (Gale Cengage) | |
| ODS: Official documents of the United Nations (United Nations) | |
| UN Data (United Nations Statistical Division) |
