International

CIA World Factbook: Information about countries worldwide, including literacy rates, land area, forms of government, and much more.  Source: Central Intelligence Agency.

Country Profiles: Provides a brief history, profile of leaders, timeline of key events, and description of local media on countries throughout the world.   Features news stories, audio files, and links to related sites. From the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Source:  Librarians' Index to the Internet.

Europa:   Provides information about the European Union and its institutions.  Source: © European Communities, 1995 - 1998.

European Union (EU): a guide for Americans: This seven chapter guide introduces the workings of the EU system as well as EU-US relations.  Source: European Commission.

FAO (Food & Agriculture Organization of the U.N.): Covers agriculture, economics, fisheries, forestry, natural resources and environment, and sustainable development. It includes web sources, online documents, and databases.  Source: FAO.

FAS (Foreign Agricultural Service): Provides online market reports, import/export data on agricultural products, and links to various organizations dealing with trade policy. Source: FAS, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture.

Freedom House:  This non-profit, non-partisan organization provides links to organizations and publications regarding democracy and freedom around the world.  Source: Freedom House, Inc.

Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO):  Included here are links to Acts of Parliament, Church of England Measures and Statutory Instruments.   Provides links to the Cabinet Office, the Stationery Office Limited, and Parliament.  Source: Her Majesty's Stationery Office.

INCORE Internet Country Guides: Focuses on providing scholarly information on ethnic conflicts in a few selected countries. (description from Choice, 4/98). Source: Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity.

InfoNation: Contains geographical, economic, demographic, and social indicators data for all 185 UN members.  Source: © 1997 United Nations Publications.

Nation Master: an excellent resource for finding out any number of current details about just about any country in the world. Nation Master has 335 statistical data sets, ranging from library books, forested land, Internet users, and airports. For easy reference, the main Web page features the most frequently requested stats, such as televisions and military expenditures per capita. The site also has links to national profiles, which include the available statistics for each country, and images of the country's flag and a political map. The site will be helpful for students looking for basic statistics on the world's different countries.  (Description courtesy of Scout Report 6/10/2003).  Source:  Copyright NationMaster.com 2003.

Online Intelligence Project:  Offers information on the status of and events in the world outside the U.S., and is organized by broad international affairs categories (Resources, News, Commerce, Security, References), or by region.  Source: © 1995 ICG.

(POPIN) United Nations Population Information Network:  "Aims to coordinate population information activities at international, regional and national levels." (Choice, Feb. 1999)  Source: Population Division, Dept. of Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis, United Nations.

Portals to the World:  Contains selective links providing authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world. Arranged by country or area with the links for each sorted into a wide range of broad categories. The links were selected by Area Specialists and other Library staff using Library of Congress selection criteria. Source: Library of Congress.

The Stationery Office: Official documents:  The privatized Stationery Office has replaced Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO) as the official publisher of most British government publications.  Publications back to 1994 are available by title, date, or department.  Source: © The Stationery Office Ltd 1997. 

Statistics Canada: Provides information on social and economic conditions in Canada and a catalog of published information by the Canadian government. Source: Statistics Canada.

Strategis: Provides company information, industry profiles, laws and regulations and other information for doing business in Canada. Source: Industry Canada.

United Nations: In addition to being THE Web source for information about the UN organization, this site contains UN documents, statistics, and other research sources. Source: © United Nations 1997, 1998.

VIBES: Virtual International Business and Economic Sources: Provides links to sources of information including full-text files, statistical tables, and graphs on topics related to international business. Source: Jeanie M. Welch, University of North Carolina, Charlotte.

World Bank:   The main focus of the World Bank is on helping the poorest people and countries.  The site provides links to publications of the World Bank Group, covers the developing regions of the world, and various topics as they relate to economic development in the areas of agriculture, education, environment, gender, health, poverty, social development, etc.  Source:   World Bank.

World Resources Institute:  Provides yearly world resources report, environmental data, and global topics related to the environment. Source: World Resources Institute.