REFERENCE SOURCES ON WORLD COUNTRIES
CONNECTICUT COLLEGE LIBRARY

--An informal tour--


At the Reference Desk
 
  Congressional Quarterly's International Information Directory
Encyclopedia of associations. International Organizations 

Reference Collection: LC Classification
 
AE
Encyclopedias and Encyclopedia Yearbooks (Half of Britannica Yearbook devoted to country-by-country surveys)   BritannicaOnline accessible through Library Home Page.
D
Facts on File, Keesings Record of World Events (Looseleaf monthly news updates; worldwide coverage; cumulative indexes.)
D-F
LC's classification for Area Studies: DA-U.K.; DC-France; DD-Germany; DK-Russia; DP-Spain; DR-Eastern Europe; 
DS-Middle East and Asian Studies; DT-African Studies;E-F-Americas; F 1400-Latin American Studies.
G Encyclopedia of the Third World, Environmental Profiles, Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations.
HA
LC's classification for statistical compilations: UN Demographic Yearbook; UN Statistical Yearbook; International Historical Statistics.
HC World Development Report, Human Development Report, and other economic yearbooks.
HD-HF Economics: labor, trade, finance. Worldmark Encyclopedia of National Economies, Encyclopedia of the Developing World, Company Histories, International Financial Statistics.
HQ Families, children, women, sex issues. Check for international topics. Handbook of World Families, Statistical Handbook on the World's Children, Greenwood Encyclopedia of Women's Issues Worldwide.
JA
Statesman's Yearbook, International Political Science Abstracts (International, comprehensive coverage of the journal literature in political science). 
JC Human Rights material, including Amnesty International Reports.
JF
Political Handbook of the World (Country-by-country survey)

Oxford Companion to Politics of the World
JN
Europa World Year Book (country-by-country coverage: includes annual overview, statistics,and directory information)
JX Coverage of international government, including United Nations.
KZ United Nations
P Language and languages, including dictionaries. PC-Romance languages; PD-PF-Germanic; PG-Slavic; PL-East Asian and African.
Z 2000-5000 LC's classification for bibliography; includes ABC-Clio's individual bibliographies for many countries throughout the world. This area will take you to many other sources.

U.S.Documents:
    Documents Reference/Online Resources
D Country Survey Series: excellent overviews of individual countries; chapters on history, economy, politics, and foreign relations of each country covered; extensive chapter bibliographies at end; note dates of publication for currency. 
PrEx  CIA World Fact Book
S State Department --Background Notes (looseleaf compilation of fairly current basic information) 
                       NOTE: Many government resources, including the above, are also available on the WWW.   See CC-Docs International Links.

      Congressional Hearings
              Y4's on lower level. Listed in online catalog, and indexed and abstracted in CIS Index in DOCS REF and on
              the  LexisNexis Congressional Home Page.
 
 
 

    Selected Internet Resources: 

Portals to the World (electronic resources selected by LC) 
International Affairs Resources (from WWW Virtual Library)
Internet Access by Geographic Area (from Yale)
Foreign Governments (from NWU)
Foreign Affairs Online - Foreign States
Links to the World (from the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library)
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Eldis Country Profiles (development information)
Trade related Regional and Country Information (from USITC)
Elections around the World
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European Union Internet Resources(from UCBerkeley)
Africa South of the Sahara (from Stanford)
Latin American Network InfoCenter
Asia via the Web (from UCLA Center for East Asian Studies)
AsiaSource (Asia Society)
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Non-US Newspaper Archives on the Web
Today's Front  Pages (papers from more than 20 countries)
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Non-governmental Organizations Research Guide (from Duke)
Directory of Development Organizations
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International section of CC Government Documents Page

 
 
 
 

                                                                                                                                                                                    wjm 7/26/06