Starting
Points
Country
Studies/Area Handbook Program
"Most books in the series deal with a particular foreign country,
describing and analyzing its political, economic, social, and national
security systems and institutions, and examining the interrelationships of
those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors."
Look at the bottom of each page to determine when the information
was compiled.
Virtual
Library: International Development
Explore the site. A rich source of information.
Encyclopaedia
Britannica
Provides access to the Britannica, the web’s
best sites, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and more. Scroll down to browse
Britannica’s World Atlas or to browse topics alphabetically.
Canada: Foreign Affairs and International Trade
Features information about Canada's role in the world and other
important global issues.
Infonation:
Choose Countries
"InfoNation is an easy-to-use, two-step database that allows you
to view and compare the most up-to-date statistical data for the
Member States of the United Nations."
The
World Factbook 2008
Information compiled by the Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA).
Specialized
Sites
U.S.
Department of State: Human Rights
U.S.
Department of State
International
Organizations
Directory of Development Organizations
Resource guide to development organizations and the Internet.
United
Nations
The
World
Bank - Topics in Development
Newspapers
For links
to the current day's editions of local, national, and international
newspapers online, see the Internet
Resources
section of the library's homepage.
Lexis-Nexis
Academic Universe provides citations and full text articles from many national and
international newspapers from
as early as 1980.
This database may be accessed on- or off- campus by King's
students, faculty, and staff.
News Link
- The American Journalism Review site, which links to magazines, news
wires, radio, & TV.
Statistics
Statistics
and Demographics (University of Texas at Austin)
Statistical
Sites on the World Wide Web (U.S. Department of Labor)
Infonation:
Choose Countries
"InfoNation is an easy-to-use, two-step database that allows you
to view and compare the most up-to-date statistical data for the
Member States of the United Nations.
Maps
Maps Machine - National Geographic
Map
Collection
INFOMINE
- Maps and GIS
Indexes/Abstracts/Full Text Databases
King’s
College Library subscribes to a number of databases that are accessible
on- or off- campus to King’s students,
faculty, and staff. If an article
you want is not available in full text, and the library does not subscribe
to the journal containing
it, you may request
the article through Interlibrary
Loan, by filling out a request form. (See the Electronic Forms section of
the library’s
web page.)
The
following databases are provide helpful information related to
economics:
Academic
Search Premier
-
provides indexing and abstracts from more than 8,000 periodicals covering
all disciplines.
Coverage dates back to the mid-1970s. Full text articles from nearly
4,600 periodicals are provided.
Business
Source Premier
- provides full text articles from more than 7,400
scholarly journals and other sources
in business and economics.
Includes
information from major business periodicals dating back to the 1930's.
Lexis
Nexis
- provides
citations and full text articles from many national and international
papers from as early as the mid-1970s.
Includes a business news section.
May be accessed on- or off-campus by King’s students, faculty, and
staff.
PRINT SOURCES
Demographic
Yearbook R
312.058 D396D
Europa
World Yearbook.
Ref. Desk R320.058 Eu74E
Statistical
Abstract of the World
R 317.3 St29S1
The Statesman's Yearbook. Ref. Desk
R320.058 St1
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