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- Official government/UN
- The United Nations Member States site provides country data: http://www.un.org/en/members/index.shtml
- 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 database Proquest 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:
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- click on "Search by Content Type". Opt for All News, Broadcast Transcripts or Foreign Language News.
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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