Milestone #2: Explore Country Information
- CIA World FactbookThe World Factbook provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.
- BBC Country ProfilesFull profiles provide an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions.
- eHRAF World Cultures (formerly eHRAF Collection of Ethnography)A cross-cultural database containing over 300,000 pages of descriptive information on all aspects of cultural and social life. In eHRAF's full-text sources (books, articles, and dissertations) the paragraphs are numerically subject-indexed for precise retrieval of information, and therefore OCM subject codes are crucial in performing powerful searches in the eHRAF databases.
News Sources
International News
- Access World News This link opens in a new windowAccess World News is a comprehensive resource that includes a variety of news publications worldwide. These sources include major national and international newspapers, as well as local and regional titles as well as newswires, blogs, web-only content, videos, journals, magazines, transcripts and more. Access World News is updated daily. This database combines news articles from more than 13,000 sources and over 200 countries. Much of the material in non-English languages has been translated into English, but a significant amount of material is presented in the original language.
- Nexis Uni This link opens in a new windowNexis Uni features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.
- UN News CentreCurrent news from the UN News Service. Search by topic or using keyword search box at the top. Search defaults to search ONLY TODAY’s news--press the ▼ next to the search box for ADVANCED SEARCH and change the dates.
