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Full-Text Availability: Note that databases with "Index" or "Abstracts" in the title often have links to the full-text articles.
See also, regions (e.g. Latin America), and other topic areas (e.g. Statistics).
Full-Text Availability: Note that databases with "Index" or "Abstracts" in the title often have links to the full-text articles.
See also, regions (e.g. Latin America), and other topic areas (e.g. Statistics).
- Cities
of the World 6th edition, 4 volumes, 2002
- Countries
and their Cultures 4 volumes, 2001
- Country Profiles (BBC) "Instant guide" to statistics, history, news, politics, chronology of key events, leaders, media, and economics of countries of the world
- Country, Religion, Topical Statistics -- OFFSTATS Quick and convenient, provides official statistics from agencies such as as UNICEF, World Bank, local ministries per country and other variables.
- Economist
Intelligence Unit on the Internet Data on 150 countries,
from about 1980 to present. Includes commerce, finance and
news updates as well as other country information.
- Europa World: The Europa World Year Book online Political and economic information for over 250 countries.
- Getty
Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Global Gateway: Portals to the World This is a Library of Congress site which serves as a gateway to numerous links that contain country information. Choose a country and then subject.
- A Guide to Countries of the World Oxford reference work
- International
Bibliography of the Social Sciences Citations from an international
selection of publications, including over 2600 journals, in all
areas of the social sciences with emphasis on economics, political
science,
sociology
and anthropology.
- International Data Base: World Statistics Quick access to demographic and socio-economic statistics for 227 countries.
- ISI Emerging Markets Information
about the conditions in developing countries of Latin America,
Asia and Europe. Includes industry and analyst reports, macroeconomic
statistics and forecasts, legal and regulatory information, and
opinion polls from: the Baltic States (including Estonia, Latvia
and Lithuania), Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic (including
Slovakia), Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia (including Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan), Turkey, Ukraine, Argentina,
Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, China,
India, South Korea and Southeast Asia (Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines,
Indonesia and Thailand).
- JSTOR Provides
electronic access to back issues of core scholarly journals including
almost 30 in Political Science. To browse the list of archives,
click here.
Articles have been digitized, providing full-image access.
- Nations of the World A-Z list of all countries in the world and their official languages. Click on the country name to link to "One World - Nations Online" which provides news links, maps, statistics, current topics, and more on languages of every country of the world.
- PAIS
International Bibliographic index to the literature of
public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general.
Journal articles, books, government documents, statistical
compilations, committee reports, directories, serials, reports
of public, intergovernmental, and private organizations, and
most other forms of printed literature from all over the world
are indexed. This database covers 1972 to the present. Go to PAIS
International Archive for coverage from 1937-1976. (The
archive will eventually cover 1915 through 1976.)
- Political
Handbook of the World A component of the CQ
Press Political Reference Suite . Political and government
information on all countries.
- Worldwide
Political Science Abstracts Citations with abstracts
from more than 1100 journals in political science and
related disciplines.
Coverage is international in scope.
- World
Almanac Online version of the World Almanac and Book
of Facts.
- World
Factbook (CIA) Extensive information on all countries.
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