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  • Official government/UN   
    • The Europa World Year Book  - Ref Counter JN1 .E85. The most concise, comprehensive way to get quick information on countries.
    • UNData - Searches across multiple databases. Also provides detailed country data. Updated data available.
    • 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.

NGOs

  • TheNGO Database "contains information about the organizations that have Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations ECOSOC." 
  • Search this database by Field of Activity (general topic) or by a specific NGO name. 
  • Try the DPI/NGO (UN Department of Public Information, Non Governmental Organization) website. 
  • The Non-Governmental Organization Research Guide from Duke University helps you find NGO's by issues. 
  • Learn more about the relationship between NGOs and the NGLS, the United Nations at the UN-Non Governmental Liaison Service. 
  • The NGOs links page lists NGOs alpabetically and by topic. 
  • Once you have identified specific NGOs, search Academic Search Premier, ProQuest and LexisNexis Academic for scholarly articles and news stories on these organizations (databases available to Drew community from the A-Z Databases by Title). 

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  • ODS offers keyword search access to UN official documents. 
  • Index to UN Systems Programs - Thematic issues considered by UN agencies and related bodies devoted to social or economic development, with hyperlinks to relevant websites. Also try Global Issues on the UN Agenda. 
  • UN System Directory - Essential for sorting out the maze of UN organizations.
  • UN News Centre 
  • List of all United Nations searchable databases.
  • Official WEB Site Locator for the United Nations - Alphabetical list. The index to the U.N. Website provides an alphabetic site index to UN websites.  
  • A nice browseable list of many UN and UN related websites is available from the State Department. 
  • UN Conferences - link to past conferences (1994 - 2008)  
  • UN Treaty Collections 
  • United Nations Acronyms and Short Forms explained. 
  • The Yearbook of the United Nations (JZ4947 .Y43 yr) provides coverage of UN issues by year. The Drew Library archives the Yearbook back to 1945 in the Reference Section on the main floor of the library. The most current print edition of the Yearbook is shelved by the Reference Desk. 
  • United Nations Multimedia - News articles, radio, television and more.
  • Encyclopedia of the United Nations  -  Ref KZ4968 .M66
  • Encyclopedia of International Relations and Global Politics - Ref JZ 1160. E53 2005
  • Great Debates at the United Nations: An Encyclopedia of Fifty Key Issues, 1945-2000. - Ref KZ4968 .G67 2001
  • United Nations Today (yr) - Ref JZ 4970.U658 
  • United Nations Handbook (yr) - Ref JX 1977.2.N5U55 
  • Encyclopedia of Human Rights - Ref JC 571.E673 2009 
  • Annual Review of United Nations Affairs - 341.23 A615a dates from 1959. These multi volume annual sets include an overview of UN activities for the year, GA resolutions and issues related to the Security Council, Economic and Social Council, Trusteeship Council, International Court of Justice, peacekeeping issues and the annual report from the Secretariat annual reports. (On E-level).

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