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- Government information:
- The Europa World Year Book - Ref Counter JN1 .E85. The most concise, comprehensive way to get quick information on countries.
- The CIA's World Factbook provides a lot of information about countries and international organizations.
- The UNPAN's (United Nations Online Network in Public Administration and Finance) Public Administration Country Profile page provides links to the government, constitution and public laws for most countries.
- Country information from deleGATE.
- Nations of the World from the Law Library of Congress, provides many useful links to official government sites, legal guides and general resources for countries worldwide.
- Foreign Information About Countries, from the University of Colorado Libraries.
- Countries of the World - All sorts of unexpected information about countries, dating from 1989. The Country Ranks list is very interesting.
- Comparative International Statistics, from the US Census.
- NationMaster - pulls data about countries from a variety of economic and political resources.
- Newspapers:
- News and Periodical Resources on the Web. From the Library of Congress, a list of online free news services from around the world.
- The database LexisNexis (Drew community only access) provides access to over 40 international newspapers.
- From the default search page, open up the blue News tab on the left hand side of the screen.
- Opt for Newspapers and Wires. This search page allows you to limit by Non-U.S. newspapers and wires. Foreign language newspapers and wires is another click off the News tab. Make sure you limit your time period, otherwise you may get too many results. Click on to see titles included in any grouping:
Determining news bias:
- The editorial page (not the OpEd page) of a newspaper provides insight into a newspaper's bias.
- News Bias Explored - From the University of Michigan provides some good examples of how to identify media bias, useful activities regarding word choice and links to other sources dealing with news bias.
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- Academic Search Premier - opt for scholarly journals.
- Proquest Direct - opt for scholarly journals.
- Columbia International Affairs Online - think tank and other public policy organization papers and articles.
- Worldwide Political Science Abstracts - premier database for political science research.
- ScienceDirect
- EconLit
- Sociological Abstracts
- Ethnic News Watch - great for non U.S. viewpoints on issues.
- For specific subject resources see: Electronic Resources by Subject.
Books
In addition to doing a Keyword search in the Drew catalog, try the Exact search page. Use the "search for" drop down box and select Subjects. Type in topic keyword. Click directly to list of books, or browse a sub-list of topics.
World Cat (access from Electronic Resources by Title). This database searches catalogs of over 20,000 libraries worldwide. Searching is clunky, but this database provides great access to monographic (book) scholarship. Books not available at Drew can be requested through InterLibraryLoan directly from book records found in WorldCat.